Outdoor Education Apprenticeships

Outdoor Education apprenticeships equip employers with the tools to build a team suited to the demands of the outdoor education sector. By providing hands-on training customised to real-world challenges in outdoor education, employers cultivate skilled and capable staff aligned with their organization’s mission.

• Outdoor apprenticeships are accessible for all companies large or small, and come with flexible funding. From activity leaders to pursuits managers, we can help shape your apprentices with the skills they need.
• Outdoor education apprenticeships help fill specific skills gaps with roles like activity leaders, learning coordinators, and outdoor instructors.
• Apprenticeships support staff retention due to the appeal of working outdoors and could hold the key to sustainable employment and team longevity.
• Outdoor education apprenticeships attract highly motivated individuals who have a passion for education young people in the great outdoors.
• Providing career advancement opportunities within the outdoor education setting that can benefit your work culture and provide a testament of strength and employee interest to your company.
• Outdoor education apprenticeships offer custom training in skills such as outdoor risk assessment, safety protocols, and more so employees can excel in their role.
• Outdoor education apprenticeships offer invaluable, high-quality training to help you build a strong and loyal workforce with highly trained apprentices.

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Outdoor Education apprenticeships offer a range of benefits for employees which can enhance their skills, and equip them with the experience, industry knowledge, and qualifications they need to progress in this sector.

• You’ll gain valuable qualifications and skills to excel in roles like outdoor activity instructors, activity leaders, and more, all while earning a salary and not paying tuition fees.
• In the outdoor industry, no two days are the same. You’ll get to participate in a range of exciting and adventurous activities every day. A career in the outdoors is a full-filling way of life.
• Working as an outdoor education apprentice, you will benefit from a rich work environment, spending every day in nature will improve your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Outdoor education is highly rewarding, you’ll get to improve the health and wellbeing of others and extend their personal horizons by helping people appreciate and understand the world around them.
• Learn valuable transferable skills specific to the outdoor education sector such as practical problem solving, teamwork and leadership.
• An outdoor education apprenticeship can set you up for an exciting, and sustainable career with excellent progression routes, whether you are looking to study further or climb the ranks.
• Through your apprenticeship you will have a mentor who can guide and advise you, give you feedback and help you decide what are the best steps for advancing in your hospitality career.
• You will benefit from a combination of workplace learning and classroom learning, and through STS your employer may opt to offer you an added value experiential learning course at one of our 12 training centres.
• You will experience high-quality outdoor education training by experienced trainers, setting you up for varied career opportunities in the future.

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