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Pimlico Apprenticeships

Here a Pimlico Plumbers we believe that apprenticeships are vital in tackling skills shortages and youth unemployment.

Apprenticeships offer young people a high-quality and respected hands on training route and many employers and young people can benefit from them.

Taking on apprentices improves productivity, strengthens workforces and improves motivation among our employees. We are also able to harness and find fresh talent and to train new people the way we want them to learn and work right from the very beginning.

Apprenticeships at Pimlico Plumbers

Pimlico offers four different types of Apprenticeships including:

  • Plumbing
  • Heating Engineering
  • Electrical
  • Carpentry
  • Building
  • Mechanics

Apprentices attend college one day per week in term time for three years. The rest of their time is spent in accompanying our qualified engineers out on real jobs learning their trade of choice.

Benefits:

  • Apprentices are trained by highly experienced engineers that are experts in their field and gain a City and Guilds NVQ qualification levels 1, 2 and 3 when they have completed their apprenticeship.
  • We pay good rates to our apprentices and cover all associated employment costs and provide personal protective equipment.
  • All college fees are paid for by the college that the apprentice attends. All on the job training is paid for by Pimlico.

Pimlico’s Apprentice Scheme

Our three year plan is to reduce youth unemployment by turning Jobseekers Allowance into a Job Achievers Incentive, i.e the Government pays the employer the Job Achievers Incentive to use as part of a minimum wage salary for an apprentice.

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Support From David Willetts MP

David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, visited Pimlico to speak to Charlie Mullins, MD of Pimlico, about the need for further support for apprenticeships and youth training.

He was given a tour of the depot and even had some hands on experience from Pimlico’s Apprentices.

“These are the skills that really drive the trades that matter to people. You get a really worthwhile job that you can do for life and it earns good money. It’s a really useful alternative to the university route; so we back it,” says David Willetts.