A Commitment to Apprenticeships and Ongoing Development
Apprenticeships play a central role in Achieve Together’s approach to workforce development.
The organisation offers programmes across Health & Social Care, administration, and management, ensuring colleagues at every stage of their career have access to structured, meaningful development opportunities.
Apprenticeships were introduced to address skills gaps across the workforce and provide clear routes for progression. Through a combination of formal learning, role specific tasks, regular supervision and hands on practice, Achieve Together supports colleagues to grow in confidence and capability. ‑specific tasks, regular supervision and hands‑on practice, Achieve Together supports colleagues to grow in confidence and capability.
Dawn Buchanan Hole, Learning and Development Manager at Achieve together explains:
“Apprentices demonstrate greater confidence and capability once they are in a permanent role and tend to have a much clearer understanding about what is expected of them. As a provider of specialist services, this enhances the quality of the support delivered every day in our services.”
Working in Partnership With Paragon Skills
Paragon Skills delivers Achieve together’s Care apprenticeship programmes. With a deep understanding of the social care sector Paragon Skills make sure that our Team Members are placed on apprenticeship programmes that matches their own career aspirations.
valuing a shared focus on learner achievement and high-quality care delivery, the partnership is rooted in close communication and collaborative working. Achieve Together’s mangers are involved in the apprenticeship programme from the outset and this gives our apprentices a supportive learning environment.
Reflecting on the partnership, Dawn says:
“Paragon Skills is a great partner to work with. They understand our business, the sector and the roles of those who work for us.”
The Impact of Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are not just having an impact on the quality of care for people supported by Achieve together. Team members are also more confident and performing better, showing a stronger grasp of their responsibilities best practice within day‑to‑day roles, leading to more consistent and high‑quality support across services.
The organisation has also strengthened its internal career pathways. Through investing in the development of its apprentices, Apprentices are also staying with the organisation, many being promoted when internal vacancies are advertised. This is great news for a sustainable workforce.
Dawn highlights the difference this investment has made:
“Our apprentices are growing in skills and confidence, and this contributes directly to stronger team performance and improved outcomes for the people we support.”
Apprenticeships now form a key part of Achieve Together’s Team Member development. Achieve Together is committed to maintaining the strong, collaborative partnership it has built with Paragon Skills, ensuring apprentices remain supported and programmes continue to accelerate progression, strengthen retention and elevate the quality of support across our care services. Together, through apprenticeships we are building a confident, competent and future‑ready Care workforce.
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