Main homebuilder Persimmon Houses is celebrating after the corporate was named the winner of Bridgend School’s Employer Partnership Award for 2022.
The School’s Annual Awards Ceremony acknowledges assist from valued employer companions whereas recognising learners with excellent educational achievement and dedication to check.
Persimmon has been recognised for its work with Bridgend establishing a floor breaking schooling and coaching academy, which is producing the subsequent era of building employees in South Wales.
The ‘Persimmon Academy’ sees apprentices develop their expertise at a bespoke building and studying facility on the homebuilder’s improvement in Llanilid, Ponytclun.
This yr, the School has additionally designed a ‘administration apprenticeship’ course that’s bespoke to Persimmon and can practice future workers for the corporate’s Welsh developments with {qualifications} in building and web site administration.
The initiative builds on a profitable relationship that has been constructed over the previous 5 years, and has created over 150 new job alternatives in building throughout South Wales.
Commenting, Persimmon Houses’ Carl Davey stated the award highlighted ‘the numerous funding the corporate is making in workers coaching and recruitment’.
He added:
“Persimmon’s partnership with Bridgend School is significant for the way forward for the enterprise in South Wales, and we’re delighted our work with apprentices has been recognised.
“Building is the nice enabler of the Welsh financial system, and our apprenticeship programme has already created over 150 job alternatives for employees on our websites throughout the nation.
“The institution of the Persimmon Academy at Llanilid strengthens our dedication to apprenticeships and can guarantee our workforce displays the communities we construct in and the purchasers we serve.
“The bespoke administration apprenticeship is one other distinctive addition to our coaching supply and can guarantee we appeal to high quality candidates to propel the enterprise ahead in our quest to be the nation’s main homebuilder.
“We stay up for persevering with our partnership and delivering a first-class studying surroundings that produces the subsequent era of building employees in South Wales.”
Congratulating Persimmon on the award, a Bridgend School spokesperson, stated:
“Persimmon West Wales are worthy winners of our Employer Partnership Award for 2022.
“Our partnership is delivering apprenticeship alternatives in an space of Wales that has been affected by job losses from the metal and automotive industries.
“The mannequin we’ve created with Persimmon West Wales has created over 150 new job alternatives each for apprentices beginning their profession, and likewise for these trying to retrain and enter the development sector.
“The partnership has additionally expanded into providing a brand new Persimmon particular web site administration apprenticeship, creating the Persimmon leaders of the long run.
“The coaching academy can be a implausible alternative for apprentices to achieve actual work expertise whereas they be taught. We hope that our shut working relationship will proceed to go from power to power sooner or later.”
