The Skills Support for the Workforce Programme is a free service, created to help small to medium-sized employers turn their business growth plans into reality by upskilling their existing workforce. We work with employers to identify their skills gaps and recommend bespoke training plans which will give their workforce they skills they need to grow the business. And the best bit – we even deliver the training for free!

We currently are offering the above in the Tees Valley Area. Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton and Redcar and parts of Darlington are eligible 

The courses we offer through SSW cover the areas of construction, health and social care, business administration and warehousing and storage.  These include:

• Loading and securing
• Transporting loads
• Trowel occupations
• Wood occupations
• Fenestration occupations
• Dry lining
• Compacting
• Telehandler
• General construction
• Drainage
• Kerbs and channels
• Modular pavement
• Concreting – Non-structural and Structural
• Roof slater and tiler
• 360 Excavator
• Administration
• Construction
• Care
• Warehousing and storage