Completing your apprenticeship

Gateway to completion

Once you’ve completed your on programme training you will go through gateway to completion. This is where we agree with you and your line manager that you have acquired the knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in the apprenticeship standard and are ready to undertake your final assessment.

Apprenticeship assessment

Apprenticeship assessment is the process for you to demonstrate to a third-party assessor that you have acquired the knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSB’s) set out in the apprenticeship standard.

The assessment will be carried out by an impartial Assessment Organisation, which takes responsibility for the assessment of the apprentice against the requirements of their standard.

Your assessment

During your assessment you will complete the following:

You will have up to 10 weeks to write and submit a 4,500 – 5,500 word work-based project, based on a brief created by the End Point Assessment Organisation. Although you won’t begin writing this project until the assessment period starts, your tutor will have helped you to plan, prepare and practise your approach during the training phase.

You will deliver a presentation to an independent end-point assessor on your business transformation project. You would have worked on this with your coach so will be fully prepared. This can be done remotely – you will need a laptop or computer with a webcam and a suitable date will be booked with you and your employer.

This will be straight after your presentation with the same independent end-point assessor and will focus on obtaining details of your learning throughout the course.

Top tips

Challenge Yourself

Part of your assessment is to complete a business improvement project.

This can be anything where you can demonstrate your KSB’s learnt through the Apprenticeship.

Be Proactive

Try to consider what sort of projects you would like to get involved with as early as possible to give yourself time to complete it. Your coach will support you through this and will be able to answer questions about what you could carry out.