Apprenticeships

Portsmouth City Council are an Apprenticeship provider, delivering in house programmes to new and existing staff members to develop individuals careers in line with business needs. Programmes including Business Administration, Customer Service and Port Operative.

We can provide Apprenticeships to other levy paying employers and work with partners across the surrounding areas. Please contact us for more information

• Visit the Learning place website
• Like us on Facebook – Learning Place
• Email thelearningplace@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
• Call 023 9262 1860
• Come in and see us at The learning Place, 6 Derby Road, North End, PO2 8HH

Find our current Apprenticeships vacancies on our careers portal.

There is also more information about apprenticeships, both for individuals and as an employer.

You can also view our last Ofsted Inspection report where we achieved a Grade 2 – Good.

Apprenticeships – our approach to subcontracting

Portsmouth City Council work with a range of high quality providers to deliver outstanding apprenticeships to our staff.  We are also accredited on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (ROATP) as a provider delivering to levy paying employers.

In our direct delivery it is not our normal policy to use sub contracted provision, however the Council is committed to ensuring that our staff and local people receive the best training opportunities through Apprenticeships at all times. In specialist circumstances, the Council will consider partnerships to deliver specific standards identified through training needs analysis as key to business development. This is dealt with on a case by case review and led by the needs of the HR department of the Council.

Since 2019 the council has not used any subcontracting partners for the delivery of apprenticeships as an internal provider.

The public sector apprenticeship target was introduced by the government in 2017, when the Apprenticeship Levy came into effect. Under this, public sector bodies with 250 or more staff in England have a target to employ an average of at least 2.3% of their staff as new apprentice starts annually over the period of 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2022.

Portsmouth City Council is required to report its progress towards this target to the government annually. Please find details, below, of how we have performed recently.