Digital Learning Designer Apprentice
WESTCOAST (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Berkshire (RG7 4AH)
Closes in 9 days (Friday 26 September 2025)
Posted on 16 September 2025
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Summary
As a Digital Learning Design Apprentice, your role is to support the creation, implementation and continuous development of training materials, resources and ad-hoc learning assets in support of learning programmes.
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
- Training course
- Digital learning designer (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 31 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 7 months
- 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
- Helping to design engaging digital training and training communications.
- Learning and utilising an exciting range of authoring tools
- Supporting the administration of the Learning Management System
- Support the Learning & Development function to help improve workplace performance
- Working alongside the Digital Specialist and supporting them on projects
- Helping to improve departmental processes to make them more efficient
- Supporting events such as Workwise at Westcoast, a work experience programme
Where you'll work
Arrowhead Park
Arrowhead Road Theale
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 4AH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
Training course
Digital learning designer (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Develop communication strategies to manage and engage with project stakeholders and use appropriate methods and technologies to facilitate and document communications.
- Plan and facilitate discussions and activities to initiate and progress work, analyse and interpret information, gather requirements, and engage effectively with stakeholders.
- Gather, analyse, and interpret information about learners and learning environments, such as learner feedback, learning analytics, needs analysis, and profile mapping, to inform the learning design approach and technical requirements.
- Select and apply appropriate learning theories and instructional design models and methodologies to inform digital learning design approaches, outputs, and implementation strategies.
- Use instructional design tools, taxonomies, and frameworks to articulate meaningful learning objectives and learning content, through scripts or storyboards.
- Use learning objectives to map a learning journey to facilitate and measure their achievement through formative and summative activities.
- Interpret and synthesise information sources and concepts to organise content and re-present information to align with learning objectives and meet learner needs.
- Communicate concepts, designs, and strategies to suit different stakeholder audiences and facilitate Collaborative processes, using appropriate formats and technologies, such as face to face and virtual presentations, storyboards, and project documentation.
- Select and use distinct software, hardware, platforms, and tools to design, develop, and implement digital learning products and experiences.
- Use professional techniques to script, edit, create, and produce a range of multimedia formats, including text, imagery, audio, and video.
- Configure and apply regulatory, professional, organisational and technical standards and techniques including accessibility standards and data security to the sustainable design and formatting of documents, multimedia, user interface, digital products and platforms.
- Conduct the quality checking and testing of digital outputs whilst ensuring there is ongoing improvement of quality assurance processes with internally and or with target users, prior to implementation, including proofreading, updating, renewing and revising existing content, application of branding, accessibility and functionality.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of digital learning products and experiences in achieving project requirements and intended learning objectives, using appropriate tools and methodologies.
- Plan and manage your own design and development activities and collaborate with others to achieve shared objectives and outputs.
- Organise and manage digital assets and outputs on a platform in accordance with organisational or professional standards, to maintain regulatory compliance, version control, efficient collaborative processes, and quality assurance.
- Assimilate and use evaluative information to contribute to the review of organisational policies, processes and systems.
- Develop communication strategies to manage and engage with project stakeholders and use appropriate methods and technologies to facilitate and document communications.
- Plan and facilitate discussions and activities to initiate and progress work, analyse and interpret information, gather requirements, and engage effectively with stakeholders.
- Gather, analyse, and interpret information about learners and learning environments, such as learner feedback, learning analytics, needs analysis, and profile mapping, to inform the learning design approach and technical requirements.
- Select and apply appropriate learning theories and instructional design models and methodologies to inform digital learning design approaches, outputs, and implementation strategies.
- Use instructional design tools, taxonomies, and frameworks to articulate meaningful learning objectives and learning content, through scripts or storyboards.
- Use learning objectives to map a learning journey to facilitate and measure their achievement through formative and summative activities.
- Interpret and synthesise information sources and concepts to organise content and re-present information to align with learning objectives and meet learner needs.
- Communicate concepts, designs, and strategies to suit different stakeholder audiences and facilitate Collaborative processes, using appropriate formats and technologies, such as face to face and virtual presentations, storyboards, and project documentation.
- Select and use distinct software, hardware, platforms, and tools to design, develop, and implement digital learning products and experiences.
- Use professional techniques to script, edit, create, and produce a range of multimedia formats, including text, imagery, audio, and video.
- Configure and apply regulatory, professional, organisational and technical standards and techniques including accessibility standards and data security to the sustainable design and formatting of documents, multimedia, user interface, digital products and platforms.
- Conduct the quality checking and testing of digital outputs whilst ensuring there is ongoing improvement of quality assurance processes with internally and or with target users, prior to implementation, including proofreading, updating, renewing and revising existing content, application of branding, accessibility and functionality.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of digital learning products and experiences in achieving project requirements and intended learning objectives, using appropriate tools and methodologies.
- Plan and manage your own design and development activities and collaborate with others to achieve shared objectives and outputs.
- Organise and manage digital assets and outputs on a platform in accordance with organisational or professional standards, to maintain regulatory compliance, version control, efficient collaborative processes, and quality assurance.
- Assimilate and use evaluative information to contribute to the review of organisational policies, processes and systems.
Training schedule
To meet the requirements of the Level 5 Digital Learning Designer apprenticeship programme you will need to spend 6 hours a week of your time undertaking off-the-job learning, which will include:
- Formal training, including online learning and internal learning events
- 1-2-1s with your coach and line manager
- Observing and shadowing colleagues
- Writing up learning reflections for your portfolio
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
- Maths (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
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
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
Established in 1983, Westcoast Limited is the largest distributor in the UK. The company distributes leading IT brands such as HP, HPE, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, Apple, and many others to a broad range of resellers, retailers and office product dealers in the UK and beyond. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of their staff, Westcoast Limited has grown to become the number one UK distributor for many of our vendors and customers. Employing more than 1,000 people across a number of locations in the UK, Ireland and Europe. They take pride in distributing some of the most renowned global IT brands to resellers, retailers, and organisations across the UK and beyond. As an innovative and inclusive company, they thrive on teamwork and the diverse talents of their people.
After this apprenticeship
- Full-time employment
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342147.
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Closes in 9 days (Friday 26 September 2025)
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