Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship
+ Bureau Veritas Internal Auditor Certificate in ISO 9001:2015, Lean6 YELLOW3 certificate, and CQI Student Membership
The Quality Practitioner Level 4 apprenticeship standard will equip learners with the knowledge, skills and tools to improve your business processes, reduce non-conformance and implement quality management systems.
This apprenticeship gives you and your organisation the opportunity to access a minimum of 95% funding for developing the Quality Leaders of the future.
Here at Whyy? we specialise in Quality and Continuous Improvement and align ourselves with the world’s leading accreditation bodies and partners in the field. Included at no extra cost to you or the apprentice, are the following highly regarded professional qualifications:
Why study a Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship?
From enrolment through to End Point Assessment, our team of highly skilled practitioners will be there to support your apprenticeship journey. Whether it’s funding advice, mentoring or becoming a chartered quality professional, we’re here to help.
Apply the knowledge, skills and exclusive CQI resources to your role straight away. Learn all aspects of Quality Management and apply it straight away in your role.
Throughout the apprenticeship you will develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to become a Quality Practitioner.
Join an open cohort with other apprentices, network and participate in face to face discussions. Work with other likeminded individuals and learn from each other.
As your quality role progresses and your CQI journey evolves you’ll be able to develop yourself both personally and professionally. Becoming more confident in Quality Planning, Assurance, Control and Continuous Improvement.
Who is the Quality Practitioner apprenticeship for?
The Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship is designed for project / supplier quality engineers / quality assurance officers / quality practitioners / aspiring quality managers or governance officers responsible for audits, inspections and governing quality standards.
Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship Course Content:
Develop a delivery system for reliable outputs, such as implementing Quality Management Plans for your organisation.
Expand your interpersonal skills to interact effectively with stakeholders. Management of risk and compliance requirements both legally and from other parties.
Develop knowledge of change management and key drivers for change. Learn to verify that a product or service is meeting agreed specifications, such as carrying out inspections and audits.
Understand and use Quality tools and techniques such as DMAIC, PDCA and Root Cause Analysis to improve awareness and quality performance including 6Sigma.
Don't just take our word for it...
Hear from Grace, Quality Assurance Officer at Sonoco Consumer Products, shares the skills she’s developed and the benefits she’s seen since enrolling on the Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship with Whyy? Change.
What is an apprenticeship?
An apprenticeship is a blend of a full-time job with training. The apprentice will split their time 80/20. 80% of their working time will be spent carrying out their day-to-day job responsibilities. 20% of their time will be ‘off-the-job’ and spent working towards their apprenticeship qualification.
From August 1st 2022, the new minimum off the-job training requirement for a full-time apprentice is 20% of a 30 hour week (even if the apprentice works more than 30 hours per week); this equates to an average of 6 hours of off-the-job training per week.
It is critical for your organisation and the apprentice that they can apply their new skills and a tri-party commitment to give a minimum of 20% of their time must be agreed.
What's included in 'off the job' training?
It’s always a challenge, but if the enhanced capabilities brought to the business by the apprentice is your strategic goal then its our job to find the ‘how’ to nurture this talent. This can include direct learning sessions, writing assignment, projects and the applying their new skills in your workplace.
Apprenticeship learning route benefits
- You will have weekly face to face delivery sessions (3.5 hours a week)
- Employer only has to pay up to 5% of the course cost
- Apprentices are allocated 20% of their work time to complete the apprenticeship - 10% delivery at Whyy? Change, 10% spent applying the learning in the workplace
- No additional fees, all costs are included with the apprenticeship (e.g. books, registration & CQI membership fees). We believe strongly in adding value to our learners experience
- Our expert practitioners will deliver interactive and engaging sessions to guide learners on their apprenticeship journey
What is a Level 4 Quality Practitioner equivalent to?
The Quality Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship is equivalent to the first year of an undergraduate degree, or a Higher National Certificate (HNC).
Career Development
Average UK salary data from Reed Average Salary Checker, June 2022.
Average UK salary data from Glassdoor Salaries, June 2022.
Eligibility
Our role is to plan for success where we ensure the learner is eligible to take on the most comprehensive learning experience of their career, we will discuss what you want out of the apprenticeship as well as the learner. To be eligible for an apprenticeship, your people need to be:
- Aged 16 or over (no upper age limit)
- Employed
- Living in the UK or EU for the past 3 years
- Learning significant new knowledge, skills and behaviours
- Not on any other fully-funded training course
Assessment
The genius in this standard, is that Whyy? cannot mark their own homework, and as such an independent End-point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) will be contracted with to apply a grading. The assessment is a work based project with presentation and Q&A and a professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio of evidence. Learn more about the End Point Assessment process for the Quality Practitioner apprenticeship.
13-15 months
Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship
Price
Funding Available: £6,000
Your Price: £0-300
Certificates
+ Bureau Veritas Internal Auditor in ISO 9001:2015
+ Lean6 Yellow Belt
Delivery Method
Face to Face Workshops
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Funding
The Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship costs £6,000. You can get 95-100% funding available so you’ll only have to pay a minimum of 5% (£300).
This includes the Bureau Veritas Internal Auditor Certificate in ISO 9001:2015, Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate, and CQI Student Membership at no additional cost. To access this funding, all employers must have digital apprenticeship account.
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Knowledge
they’ll learn
- Understand the internal & external operating environment.
- Methods to identify customer requirements.
- How to plan, measure, manage & monitor quality objectives.
- Key quality improvement tools & techniques.
- Principles of ISO 9001:2015
- Assess the effectiveness of measurement systems.
Skills
they’ll develop
- Plan and conduct system, product or process audits.
- Plan, develop and control ‘industry leading’ audit activities.
- Communicate using appropriate methods.
- Identify gaps in process performance.
- Develop improvement plans.
- Influence internal and external stakeholders.
Behaviours
they’ll adopt
- Be professional and operate diligently.
- Placing the customer at the heart of every task.
- Be responsible, be resilient… be a determined and accountable decision maker.
- The art of ‘team working’. Build trust within the wider team.
