Apprenticeships

Apprentices who are learning a trade – property maintenance, carpentry, electrics, plumbing – will join us at our world-class training facility, the Thrive Academy, in Derby. 

On the ground floor, we have practical learning bays for all our trade apprenticeship training. These include areas for Electrical, Maintenance, Plumbing and Carpentry, where learners can practise the essential skills required for their roles. Each bay is equipped with the latest tools, facilities, and products. These bays are designed to replicate a customer’s home, providing real-life examples of how to combine customer service with home maintenance. 

We may also facilitate ‘field trips’ to one of our newly purposed Thrive Hubs – kitted out to replicate homes of the future with air source heat pumps or retro fit technology or set up for value-add modules such as PASMA and Cat and Jenny. 

For apprentices embarking on a skills or professional based programme – customer service, leadership and management, housing property professional – they may also join us on the second floor of our Thrive Academy – where we have a suite of learning facilities replicating real business environments. Alternatively, we can work with you to look at using a Thrive Hub central to you or where numbers work, at one of your own sites or offices. 

Our PfP Thrive Tutor Team have done the job. They’ve supervised and managed others who do the job. Some might say they've even got the T-Shirt!​

What that means is they can help add the value you're looking for other than the technical competency. They know, they get it.​

The team also excel in the craft of facilitating learning and will provide an engaging and inspiring programme whether this is through workshops, practical assignments or coaching.

All apprentices need to learn, understand and apply the knowledge, skills and behaviours to pass their end point assessment and achieve their qualification. You’ll get that from any apprenticeship training provider. 

At PfP Thrive, know how important it is for apprentices to learn ‘more than the standard’ – we will work with you to ensure your apprentices learn how to be brilliant and successful in your Company.    

For starters, we’ll ensure your Company Mission, Vision and Values are incorporated throughout their learning. But we’ll bring their workplace to life through the integration of real Customer stories and situations, examples and case studies. This could include adapting their communication style, looking out for subtle signs of distress and vulnerability and the right interventions and support to put things right. Essentially, they’ll instinctively know how to do the right thing and be an ambassador of your Company.         

We can bolt on additional modules that add value to your Company and business needs – and help you get set for future Customer and Legislative demands. We know the importance and need of decarbonisation, of retrofitting properties and so are already delivering training to equip our own employees with these skills. So, we can take care of that for you too. 

We know that managing and leading people in today’s ever-changing world is bringing with it new demands and challenges – as our industry embarks on setting our new standards and ways of working. So, we need managers and leaders who are ready to take on these challenges in an inclusive way which engages, inspires and motivates their People.  

Let us work with you to get the right programme content that will transform your workforce capabilities – and in turn deliver to your Communities. 

We all know there's a national skills shortage in the UK when it comes to the sorts of trades you offer.​

We know there are people who want to learn as they earn and in return give back something to their local community.​

We recognise that some individuals have honed their craft and hold the potential to become future leaders, shaping innovative solutions that will benefit generations to come, as well as our Customers and Communities. 

By taking on an apprentice and by choosing us as your training provider, together we can close that skills shortage, we can help people shape their careers and we can boost communities.​

Build skills, shape futures.