L5 CIPD HR Apprentice - Reward and Benefits
DVSA
Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham
Closes in 20 days (Wednesday 25 February 2026)
Posted on 3 February 2026
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Summary
You’ll help deliver initiatives that improve employee engagement, reward strategies, and benefits, ensuring our policies align with staff needs and organisational goals. You will gain hands-on experience, learn from HR specialists, and make an impact on colleague experience. At the end of this, you will have an L5 CIPD qualification.
- Wage
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£35,663 a year
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Changes in salary will be subject to the annual civil service pay review.
- Training course
- People professional (level 5)
- Hours
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We offer hybrid working with an average of 3 days a week in the office. We also offer flexible working hours over a 37 hour week between the hours of 7.00am and 6.00pm Monday - Friday. These will be agreed with your line manager.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 10 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
- Lead on the continuous improvement of DVSA’s employee benefits portfolio ensuring relevance, effectiveness and value for money
- Promote the benefits portfolio, identifying new ways to engage colleagues
- Act as joint agency lead for pay and reward policies, ensuring consistency across the Department for Transport family
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to design and implement HR solutions to improve colleague experience
- Produce reports and recommendations for senior stakeholders, highlighting key findings and future actions to improve colleague experience
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:
- 48 Granby Avenue, Birmingham, B33 0TJ
- Berkeley House, Croydon Street, Bristol, BS5 0DA
- Hillcrest House, 386 Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS9 6NF
- Tyneside House, Skinnerburn Road, Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7AR
- Unity Square, Queensbridge Road, Nottingham, NG2 2GD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MBKB LTD
Training course
People professional (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
Training schedule
- At the end of this apprenticeship, you will have a level 5 qualification as a people professional, aligning with associate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
- Your training will be delivered by MBKB virtually with a dedicated coach to help you learn and develop
- You will be fully supported in the workplace with time for your apprenticeship work
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other 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
- Presentation skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
We are the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and we are 1 of the 5 executive agencies that make up the Department for Transport. We employ about 4,600 people across Great Britain to help us achieve our mission of keeping Britain moving, safely and sustainably. Our work affects millions of people and thousands of businesses. Most importantly, our work saves lives. We make sure colleagues have the skills to meet the needs of Britain’s road users.
https://careers.dft.gov.uk/our-dft-family/driver-vehicle-standards-agency/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Discounts for major retailers. Cycle to work scheme. Discounted gym membership. Pension contribution of 28.97% of salary.
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
- DVSA and the Civil Service offer a wide range of development and career progression opportunities
- Once employed as a Civil Servant, you will have access to internal vacancies across all departments
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MBKB LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011724.
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Closes in 20 days (Wednesday 25 February 2026)
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