Learning and Development Apprentice
Addleshaw Goddard
Leeds, Manchester
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)
Posted on 6 August 2025
Contents
Summary
The apprentice will support the Learning and Development team; performing a variety of tasks including administration, programme event coordination, digital design, and team support. This role is ideal for someone who is eager to learn and passionate about helping others develop their skills alongside studying the CIPD L3 Learning and Development.
- Wage
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£21,500 a year
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For the role of Learning and Development Apprentice, we will reward you with a starting salary of £21,500 a year, with the potential for salary increments in your second year.
- Training course
- Learning and development practitioner (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Digital Design: Work with Senior Advisors to create, design and implement digital content, including videos, podcasts, vodcasts, e-learning modules, and other materials.
- Administration: Use the learning management system and other digital and Microsoft platforms to perform administrative tasks such as scheduling meetings, maintaining learning records, uploading and sharing learning content and learning systems administration.
- Programme Event Coordination: Help plan, organise, and execute training programmes and events. This includes coordinating logistics, preparing materials and slides, and ensuring smooth operation during events.
- Learning Design: Learn the life cycle of a learning engagement and support the Senior Advisors in the team to develop, deliver and measure effective solutions.
- Marketing and Communications: Use a variety of channels to engage and inform employees about the learning opportunities available to them.
- Team Support: Provide general support to the Learning and Development team, including assisting with special projects, research, and other tasks as needed.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- 3 Sovereign Square, Sovereign Street, Leeds, LS1 4ER
- 1 St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3DE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
Learning and development practitioner (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identification of training/learning needs: Identify and analyse learning needs: establish team and individual capability and learning gaps, in line with organisational performance outcomes and to enable effective evaluation. This may include the needs of the staff impacted by the move to a net carbon zero economy by 2050 and the requirements for a just transition.
- Identification of training/learning needs: Use sound questioning and active listening skills to understand requirements and establish root causes i.e. establishing that it really is a learning/training need, before developing L&D solutions.
- Identification of training/learning needs: Consult with stakeholders to draw out relevant information and provide feedback to inform learning and training needs requirements.
- Identification of training/learning needs: Use effective analytical skills to seek out and analyse information.
- Identification of training/learning needs: Take ownership through to resolution, escalating complex situations as appropriate
- Training/Learning design: Design, construct and structure training / learning resources to meet a variety of needs, which will include:
- Training/Learning design: Research of delivery options and resources including digital / online / blended solutions (including identifying existing resources)
- Training/Learning design: Planning programmes / sessions / modules
- Training/Learning design: Selecting appropriate delivery methods
- Training/Learning design: Designing creative, engaging, appropriate, and inclusive learning activities (could be e-learning, digital collaboration, group sessions, blended etc.)
- Training/Learning design: Developing materials and resources to support learning.
- Training/Learning delivery: Confidently engage all learners in structured learner-centered training, primarily of ‘content-driven’ training resources.
- Training/Learning delivery: Plan, organise and prepare for a training/learning event/intervention in a timely fashion
- Training/Learning delivery: Interact with learners of varying abilities, using a broad range of techniques and carefully planned and executed questioning techniques.
- Training/Learning delivery: Facilitate and deliver learning in a face-to-face, blended and digital environment as appropriate.
- Training/Learning delivery: Monitor a learner’s progress and deliver motivational and developmental feedback.
- Training/Learning delivery: Manage participation, attitudes and behaviours to reach learning objectives.
- Training/Learning delivery: Use effective coaching skills to enable learners to achieve learning objectives.
- Evaluation: Evaluate the impact of learning solutions - measure and assess development initiatives for effectiveness, business relevance, efficiency, and continually seek ways to improve learning solutions.
- Evaluation: Build evaluation mechanisms for learning outcomes including the use of quantitative and qualitative feedback where appropriate.
- Evaluation: Apply techniques to analyse the impact of training from learners’ experience.
- Communication and Interpersonal: Communicate and influence through a range of media e.g. phone, face-to-face, email, online / virtual, adapting their style to their audience.
- Communication and Interpersonal: Build trust and sound relationships with customers/learners/colleagues.
- Communication and Interpersonal: Handle conflict and sensitive situations professionally and confidentially.
- Teamwork and Collaboration: Consistently support colleagues / collaborate within the team and L&D to achieve results.
- Teamwork and Collaboration: Build and maintain strong working relationships with others in the L&D team, HR and the wider business as required.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- a minimum of three other subjects (grade Grade 4/C or above)
- English (grade Grade 4/C or above)
- Mathematics (grade Grade 4/C or above)
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- AI and content creation
Other requirements
We are looking for someone with a desire to develop and progress within a Learning & Development role. We are interested in someone who has a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), content creation and someone who wants to learn about digital design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite and Canva. This role may be suitable for someone from a teaching background, or someone who has considered and ruled out joining the teaching profession, due to the focus on creative learning. Please note that office attendance is mandated at three days per week for employees.
About this employer
As a premium law firm working for many thousands of leading organisations in over 100 countries, we don't deal in typical problems, typical solutions or typical careers. Our business is about finding the smartest route to the biggest impact, for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we serve. That means bringing great minds together and helping individuals to be the best they can be. The many awards, nominations and top rankings we are proud to have received in recent years include accolades for training, peer support, innovation, gender equality, culture and diversity.
https://earlycareers.addleshawgoddard.com/careers/apprenticeships/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Core benefits include Life Assurance, Income Protection, Pension and Bonus schemes, with added Health & Wellbeing benefits, plus voluntary Lifestyle benefits, such as a cycle to work scheme, gym allowance and season ticket travel loans and railcards.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Our early careers pathways are based on delivering the right training and development opportunities for you as an individual. Our dedicated early careers team is on hand with advice and assistance.
- Upon completion of the scheme, you'll have the opportunity to progress within the team and continue building your career with us (subject to vacancies).
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Addleshaw Goddard
Early Careers Team
earlycareers@addleshawgoddard.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335969.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)
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