Apprentice Training Coordinator (Uppingham School)
UPPINGHAM SCHOOL
Rutland (LE15 9QD)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 31 July 2026)
Posted on 13 July 2026
Contents
Summary
To begin a rewarding career in People and Culture through combining on-the-job experience, mentoring and support with formal training, leading to a nationally recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£14,560 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Learning and development practitioner (level 3)
- Hours
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Days and shifts to be confirmed.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 August 2026
- Duration
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1 year 4 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
Responsibilities
Training Planning & Calendar Management
- Own and manage the school’s central training calendar, ensuring all activity is planned and visible
- Schedule sessions, book venues, and coordinate required resources
- Manage invitations, attendance lists, and communications to participants
- Work with departments to ensure training needs are captured and scheduled appropriately
- Ensure training delivery aligns with key organisational cycles (e.g. onboarding, compliance cycles)
- Build strong relationships with internal and external training providers
Training Delivery & Facilitation
- Support the delivery of training sessions
- Provide assistance with the design and preparation of training materials, including presentations, handouts, and resources to ensure consistency
- Be the first point of contact for welcome and induction/onboarding training
Training Systems & Data Management (HRIS-Focused)
- Maintain accurate training records
- Track and monitor mandatory and role-specific training completion
- Produce reports on attendance, completion rates, and outstanding training requirements
- Support the development of system-based training workflows and tracking processes
- Ensure data accuracy through regular checks, reconciliations, and updates
- Contribute to improving how training data is captured, reported, and used
Stakeholder Coordination
- Act as a central point of coordination for training activities across the School
- Liaise with internal stakeholders (academic CPD lead, department leads, managers) to organise training delivery
- Coordinate with external providers where required
- Ensure clear and timely communication with all participants and stakeholders
- Support departments in understanding their training obligations and schedules
Administration & Operational Delivery
- Manage all training-related administration with a high level of accuracy and organisation
- Track attendance, manage registers, and ensure records are complete
- Collect and collate feedback from training sessions
- Support the evaluation of training effectiveness and continuous improvement
- Ensure all processes are delivered consistently and in line with agreed standards
Process & Continuous Improvement
- Support the development and documentation of standardised training processes and procedures
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency (e.g. streamlining scheduling, improving communications, reducing manual processes)
- Contribute to building a structured, scalable training function
- Support wider People projects relating to learning and development
Note
This Role Definition is not an exhaustive list of what may be expected of you in the role. It is non contractual and may be amended by the School from time to time. Colleagues are required to comply with all of Uppingham School’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies.
Where you'll work
High St Uppingham School
Rutland
LE15 9QD
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)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Confident and engaging
- Professional in delivery
- Proactive and highly organised
- Reliable and consistent
- Positive
- Customer focused approach
Other requirements
Essential
- Confident communicator, able to present to and engage small groups
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent activities
- Comfortable coordinating across multiple stakeholders and priorities
- Strong IT skills (PowerPoint, Excel, systems/databases)
- High attention to detail, particularly in tracking and administration
Desirable
- Interest in learning & development, teaching, or coaching
- Experience delivering presentations or facilitating sessions
- Experience coordinating events, training, or programmes
- Familiarity with HRIS, LMS, or training management systems
About this employer
Uppingham School, founded in 1584, is a leading co-educational independent boarding school which runs 24/7 in term-time. It has a strong academic profile and excellent pastoral care with an international reputation, and state-of-the-art science, sports and music facilities. Its c. 800 pupils, aged 11-18, are accommodated in 15 boarding houses, taught by over 20 academic departments,and participate in numerous extra-curricular activities such as sports, music, and drama. The academic programme is supported by business units responsible for marketing, estates, finance, HR, IT, operations (catering, cleaning, and procurement), health and safety, and the School’s trading subsidiary. The School employs c. 550 staff.
Uppingham is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and welcomes applications from anyone
who feels they could fulfil the role.
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
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Potential for a full-time role on completion.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000042128.
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Closes in 17 days (Friday 31 July 2026)
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