Learning block week – Carried out at the start of the cycle, learners will attend the centre for a week to carry out learning on a particular subject.
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The Bus and Coach Apprenticeship is great for employers, helping businesses build a stronger, more confident workforce equipped with greater skills while working on the latest vehicles.
The Bus and Coach Apprenticeship allows employers to build their workforce with suitably competent technicians for the future.
A bus and coach engineering technician will study the following:
- How to inspect, diagnose and record defects to the applicable standard.
- Diagnostic principles based on logical, analytical interpretation leading to solving problems.
- Emerging bus and coach technologies and the impact they will have on the knowledge and skills technicians will require in the future.
- Current health and safety requirements and workshop practices.
- How to carry out high-quality roadworthiness inspections specific to their trade.
- How the business works from an operational perspective and where their role fits within the business and how they contribute to the success of the organisation.
- Customer expectations in delivering a safe, clean, reliable service.
- The requirements of attending and assessing roadside incidents.
Apprentices will spend 20% of their contracted hours in off-the-job training.
How is the apprenticeship delivered?
Workplace SMART targets – Guided workplace SMART targets will be carried out at the workplace with support from a mentor.
Development coach visit – Carried out at the end of the cycle, a development coach will visit the learner and carry out a review of the cycle and offer support and advice to the learner.
The programme is structured on cycles of learning, including 23 learning cycles, with each cycle lasting six weeks.
How the assessment works
An end-point assessment consists of: review of completed logbook (portfolio of evidence), knowledge assessment (two online tests and two written assessments), skills assessment (two practical tasks) and an in-depth professional review.