Off-the-Job Training

The importance of off-the-job training

You will dedicate around 20% of your working hours to your learning and development. This equates to around one day a week. The minimum amount of time spent must be 6 hours a week (for those working 30 hours a week or more).

What is off-the-job training?

This is any new learning that occurs within your working hours that relates to the apprenticeship standard which you are studying.

What counts as off-the-job training?

  • Shadowing other staff/departments
  • Conferences, training courses, webinars
  • Workshops/seminars
  • Meetings/mentoring
  • Working on new projects, learning new skills

What doesn’t count as off-the-job training?

  • Maths and English classes

  • Progress reviews

  • ETF Safeguarding training

  • Training that takes place outside of work hours

  • Mock exams

Where is this logged?

Off-the-job hours are logged in OneFile – it’s best logged in the Learning Journal. This will include a brief description of the learning that took place and the KSBs it relates to, along with any evidence, such as a completed report etc.

Each apprenticeship has a planned number of off-the-job hours needed to complete the training and you can see your progress towards this in OneFile.

Off-the-job training guide

For further information and worked examples, view our guide to off-the-job training.