endorsed programmes With our expertise and unique fexibe approach NOCN wi work with you to deveop a product that achieves resuts.
NOCN is a eading reguated UK awarding organisation that has been creating opportunities for earners for over 25 years. NOCN is recognised by Quaifications Reguators in Engand, Waes and Northern Ireand. We have over 400 quaifications on both the Nationa Quaification Framework (NQF) and the Quaifications and Credit Framework (QCF). These quaifications range from Entry Leve to Leve 5 and incude empoyabiity and key components of apprenticeships such as Functiona Skis. NOCN is amongst the top 10 awarding organisations in the UK and works with a diverse range of providers. The Leaders in Diversity journey and the achievement of the standard gives a positive message to a the stakehoders, both interna and externa and each person shoud be congratuated for their input to the success of the organisation Soat Chaudhry Chief Executive Nationa Centre for Diversity
The CSA has had a ong standing working partnership with NOCN and together we have coaborated on the deveopment of our portfoio of professiona quaifications incuding the recent accreditation of our Leve 5 Compiance Dipoma. Our most recent Dipoma examines the roe of the compiance officer, the impications of compiance risk for businesses and how the organisation can demonstrate its compiance contros to the reguators. NOCN IS DIFFERENT Stephen Morey Head of Learning & Deveopment Credit Services Association We work hard to ensure that peope of a ages and abiities reach their potentia. We see this as vita not ony for sustained economic growth but aso for socia mobiity and vibrant communities. NOCN is the ony awarding organisation and one of ony 20 organisations, to achieve Leve 3 in Leaders in Diversity by the Nationa Centre for Diversity. The Leaders in Diversity standard demonstrates that we embed equaity, diversity and incusion in practice within our organistion, in reation to our products and in our approach to working with partners.
COLLABORATIVE WORKING We work in coaborative partnership with empoyers, empoyer groups and training providers to: Design and create fexibe empoyer ed programmes and quaifications that individuas, empoyers, empoyer groups and communities want and need Run empoyer ed programmes Hep businesses to thrive and grow in the UK and overseas. We hep empoyers, LEPs and industria partnerships to invest in narrowing their skis gap. Our endorsed programmes hep empoyers and their empoyees become more productive and efficient - hence increasing profitabiity as we as achieving sustainabe growth. Working on the deveopment of the Steefixing Apprenticeship with NOCN was a breath of fresh air. They understood how to work with us to use the expertise within the industry to create the quaification, chaenging the requirements and structuring the quaification to ensure we woud have a consistent deivery mode. I am deighted with the outcome. Aison Lampough Head of Operationa Training Laing O Rourke
NOCN s approach to accreditation and deveopment is professiona, timey and resourcefu with we-deveoped systems and processes in pace. They have supported us, given advice and ensured that our intentions have transated into quaifications that are meaningfu for our earners. We have an exceent and productive working reationship with them. SKILLING YOUR WORKFORCE Liz Rees Head of TUC Education TUC Hinkey Point C in Somerset, the first of the proposed new generation of nucear power stations in the UK, wi require thousands of quaified and skied workers throughout its construction. NOCN, in particuar are extremey supportive and instrumenta in deveoping the quaifications that EDF Energy, our Contract Partners and our future workforce wi need to deiver a project comparabe in scae to the London 2012 Oympics. Guy Hazehurst EDF Energy Many organisations face skis shortages which impact on recruitment and ensuring that they continue to have a responsive workforce that can cope with changes in a rapidy changing environment. The UK Empoyer Skis Survey in 2013 identified that those organisations with skis gaps: Have higher operating costs Have difficuties meeting quaity standards Have difficuties introducing new working practices Lose business or orders to competitors. NOCN can offer fexibe soutions which are either based on your existing provision or are deveoped with you and accredited by us as either as a programme or quaification. Our soutions are not just about the deivery of the programme as we work with you to achieve effective embedded assessment and operationa modes to ensure reduced bureaucracy.
ENDORSING YOUR PROGRAMME endorsed training programme 1.2 miion empoyees are regarded as being not fuy proficient in their job roes (5.1% of the tota workforce in Engand). UK Empoyer Skis Survey 2013 UKCES The Endorsed Training Programme is your bespoke training programme that is written and owned by your organisation. This endorsement is confirmation that the programme of earning you offer has undergone a robust quaity assurance process which wi enabe your programme to receive an endorsement from a eading awarding organisation. endorsed empoyer programme The Endorsed Empoyer Programme is for medium to arge empoyers that have an in-house training programme which they wish to have endorsed. This is simiar to the Endorsed Training Programme but it wi be ceary branded as an empoyer programme. A discounting mode based on a arge number of earners can be discussed directy with us at the outset. As one of our stakehoders, NOCN offers you a number of added vaue extras with this endorsement incuding attendance at an annua empoyer forum and promotion of your company and programme in our e-newsetters. During my six years working with NOCN I have found them to be fexibe, supportive and, above a, professiona. Ensuring the highest standards in training deivery, whist working with my team and I, on behaf of G4S to hep us find the best soution to our Learning & Deveopment requirements. Working together we are abe to provide NOCN accredited training for our staff, and where appropriate NOCN approved training for bespoke training that meets the needs of our customers. Donna Aan Learning & Deveopment Manager G4S Secure Soutions (UK) Ltd
NOCN WILL WORK WITH YOU TO... UNDERSTAND your business the externa environment you are working in the skis, knowedge and competencies your workforce needs your outcomes for training and deveopment what you aready do the standards that you want to maintain DEVELOP A SOLUTION Endorsed Training Programme? Endorsed Empoyer Programme? New quaification? Framework of existing quaifications to map to? Underpinning empoyabiity skis? Underpinning Functiona Skis? Assessment mode? Assessment materias? Deivery materias? Operating mode? IMPLEMENT Approva of centre Assessment of provision Ensure business continuity Supported by dedicated staff No annua charges No membership charges No ate registration fees Competitive discounting REVIEW AND EVALUATE Annua review Review Deivery Review Assessment Review operating mode Review Support Have the business needs changed?
If you are interested in our approach and woud ike to work with us then pease ca us on 0114 227 0500 or emai us at business-enquiries@nocn.org.uk www.nocn.org.uk Foow us on Facebook NOCN1 and Twitter @nocn1 Extremey professiona and supportive, they have deivered rea partnership working and endeavoured to produce a quaification that truy meets the needs of our organisation. A rea peasure to work with. We are deighted with the outcome. Cathy Skibeck Senior Nurse, Workforce York Teaching Hospita NHS Foundation Trust