Green Skills, Power, Transport and Arboriculture Skills Bootcamp

Skills Bootcamps are FREE*, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, allowing you to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer or progress in your current role as part of the Government's Lifetime Skills Guarantee.

If you're looking to increase your skills in a specific area, learn new skills, or fast-track into a new job, our Skills Bootcamp could be the right choice for you.

*If you are taking the course yourself and not through your employer.

Electric Vehicle Manufacturing (Nissan UK)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for individuals of any educational level who are currently unemployed.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

This Skills Bootcamp will provide you with the vital skills needed to start a career within manufacturing. The programme provides an interactive experience, explaining all of the manufacturing philosophies, with a particular focus around continuous improvement and safely working on electric vehicles.

The Skills Bootcamp will also deliver a 2 day practical skills course with a focus on the importance of understanding and following standard operations.

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will start on 3rd July 2023 and will lasts for 2 weeks (78 hours in total).

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Electric Vehicle Component Manufacture (Unipres UK)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp offers a routeway to employment with Unipres (Electric Vehicle Component Manufacturing).

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

The Skills Bootcamp will provide participants with the following knowledge and skills, in preparation for a guaranteed interview at the end of the course with Unipres, providing a seamless progression route from the programme to a positive progression outcome:

  • Environmental awareness - carbon literacy
  • Unipres' long-term vision to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
  • Electric vehicle legislation
  • Workshop and operations management
  • Practical hand skills

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will lasts for 2 weeks (78 hours in total).

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Electric Renewables (EMS Training NE)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for learners that have prior electrical knowledge and qualifications, with a minimum requirement of a domestic installer RQF qualification.

Successful completion will allow the individual to apply for Microgeneration Certification Scheme status.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

The Skills Bootcamp is designed to deliver the programme through practical and theoretical modules aligned to nationally recognised standards, including the development of a self-guided portfolio based on site experience.

A skill scan is used to assess candidate needs and current level of understanding so that elements can be bespoke as required for the requirements of individual and/or businesses.

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will be delivered across 80 hours of guided learning.

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Woodland Management and Forestry Skills (Northumberland College)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for individuals who wish to obtain industry approved mandatory qualifications required in order to operate in the woodland management and forestry sector.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

The Skills Bootcamp will support recruitment into the forestry sector and other related land-based sectors covering:

  • Tree planting
  • Tree health
  • Tree identification
  • Silviculture
  • Health and safety
  • Brushcutters and trimmers
  • Tractor operations
  • Basic chainsaw skills
  • First aid training

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will start on 25th August 2023 between 9am-4:30pm and will be delivered across 70 hours.

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Green Skills Automotive Supply Chain - North East Automotive Alliance (Sunderland College)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for individuals looking to retrain into a skilled profession and for unemployed individuals looking to work in the automotive sector.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

On this Skills Bootcamp, you will develop your understanding of lean organisation techniques in an automotive environment, which will ensure you meet expectations set out by industry partners, preparing you for the volume of automotive vacancies in the region.

You will cover the industry requirements and gain recognised qualifications, including NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Lean Organisation Management Techniques. You will develop valuable transferable skills that employers can draw on to support the improvement of business performance.

This qualification will support your progression into employment in the automotive sector.

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will start 9th of October 2023 and will be delivered over 2 weeks.

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Strategy (Sunderland College)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills bootcamp is an ideal opportunity for organisational leaders and decision-makers who aim to pioneer sustainable growth and performance.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

This Skills Bootcamp has been developed specifically to provide organisations with the capability to meet emerging procurement requirements from publicly funded projects. There is a need to be able to measure and calculate the carbon footprint for your organisation and develop a plan to reduce the carbon footprint over time. This is needed to comply with procurement regulations.

As Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) make up the vast majority of the supply chain, tier 1 companies rely on SMEs for sub-contracts and therefore need their contractors to provide the data under scope 3 emissions for carbon reporting. This Skills Bootcamp will enable SME’s to access the significant volume of work being tendered in the region.

The sustainability strategy provides the framework for an organisation to align sustainability with existing business planning processes to create truly sustainable entities that reduce their environmental impact whilst identifying opportunities for profitable growth or improvement in service provision.

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will last for a total of 60 hours.

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Electrical Vehicle Diagnostic and Maintenance (Newcastle College)

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Who is the Skills Bootcamp for?

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for employed individuals looking to upskill and unemployed individuals looking to move into the sector to support filling the skills gap.

What will the Skills Bootcamp cover?

You will develop the core skills needed to fill the current skills gap in electric vehicle diagnostics and maintenance.

Courses have been designed to give an understanding of fully electric and hybrid vehicles and will also deliver identification of all the main components and key safety aspects when working with high voltage systems, including advanced knowledge of carrying out safety shutdown procedures.

How long is the course?

The Skills Bootcamp will start on 25th of September and will last for 10 weeks (60 hours in total).

How do I find out more?

To complete the enquiry form and find out more about the Skills Bootcamp, click here. Upon enquiry, you will be contacted by a member of the team who will be able to answer all your questions.

Are you an employer?

If you wish to access a Skills Bootcamp to train your own existing employees as part of staff professional training. Employers can co-fund the training with a cash contribution of 30% or more (reducing to 10% or more for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises). 

Please complete the form for the Skills Bootcamp you are interested in and add the details of each staff member. The delivering partner will contact you to discuss your options in more detail.