Workplace trainers have an important role. They ensure well-trained professionals and serve as the business card of companies in the sector for students from vocational education. Therefore, it has been decided to reimburse the costs of the Workplace Trainer training from 1 January 2023. Additionally, the Updates training will receive an upgrade.
To professionally guide interns and students within training companies, the sector has had its own Workplace Trainer Training for years. However, developments in education, the labour market, and within companies are progressing rapidly. To adapt the training to these developments, work is currently underway on an upgrade. The Updates programme will be supplemented with several new themes. The new version of the training will be available this autumn.
Business card of the sector
Workplace trainers have an important role. By transferring their Insights and experience, they ensure that the next generation of professionals enters the labour market well-trained and prepared. Additionally, they are also the business card of companies in the sector for students from vocational education.
They are the point of contact for students and interns and act as ambassadors for the company. A good workplace trainer can play an important role in attracting new talent to the company. It is therefore important that workplace trainers learn how to make their company positively visible and how to establish contacts with schools in their region to actively approach students.
Workplace trainers thus have an important role in engaging and retaining students in the industry.
New components
Various components of the Updates Workplace Trainer training will remain, such as creating a training plan, providing instruction, and conducting two-way conversations correctly. The new training includes the following components:
- Promoting intake
- Selecting
- Onboarding
- Guiding
- Assessing
- Professionalising
- Guiding practical assignments
- Testing competencies
SBB recognition
Social partners endorse the great importance of professional guidance for interns and students. It is expected that the Workplace Trainer Training will become mandatory from autumn 2023. From that moment, SBB will only recognise companies as training companies if they have a workplace trainer employed with a recognised certificate.
Companies that are already recognised will retain their SBB recognition. The SBB recognition is mandatory if you want to guide a student as a company.
Reimbursement of costs
Due to this Your career, social partners have decided to reimburse the costs of the Workplace Trainer training from 1 January 2023. This applies to all participants working in a company that contributes to the Social Fund Recreation (KIKK) in accordance with the CLA Leisure Recreation. Have employees followed the Workplace Trainer Training since 1 January 2023? Then you can apply for reimbursement within 3 months after completing the training via the KIKK website.
More information?
Contact KIKK recreation (info@kikk-recreatie.nl, reimbursement procedure), HISWA-RECRON (info@hiswarecron.nl, obligation) or Endurance (info@endurance.nl, content and planning). Or request the reimbursement here.