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Accord customer magazine Winter 2017 3 You’re Hired! Apprenticeships focus Our apprentice offer includes: An Apprenticeship is a real job with training, which allows you to earn while you learn, as well • A salary of £131.25 per week in year 1 as gain a nationally recognised qualification. • Completion bonus of £455 per year for every successfully completed year At Accord, we are proud to be offering a whole • Tablet for studies and tools to deliver your range of apprenticeships in Care & Support, trade administration and trade skills. • Workwear / uniform relevant to your role Towards the end of 2017, we recruited four • Government-approved training provider to apprentice electricians for Accord Works, deliver your training a varied and interesting role offering a challenging, and much sought after, career. Not quite there yet? Traineeships could be the Opportunities available NOW answer Accord currently has key apprentice From December, we will be running traineeships opportunities available in Care & Support and to upskill young people who are trying to get into all roles will go live on 2nd Jan, especially in the employmentand who need a bit of extra help Birmingham and Coventry areas. We will also to get into the world of work. The traineeships be recruiting for property maintenance will guarantee a place at the recruitment day on (multi-skilled) apprentices and painter and 24th January, 6 weeks of work experience and a decorators from the first week in January… all professional reference. and we are really keen to roles leading from a level 2 qualification on to encourage our customers and their families to get a level 3 specialist trades qualification if you involved with this. complete the first year successfully, so it is a For apprenticeship advice please email: really great route into a career and a trade! [email protected] join us on 24th january for our apprenticeship recruitment day between 9-5pm. 3 Wellington Road, Bilston, Wolverhampton, WV14 6AA 13 5 Gihan’s story Eighteen year old Gihan, is one of four new Apprentice Electricians to recently join Accord Works. Gihan has been a customer living in an Accord property in Walsall for over four years, and he is now on the path to a much sought-after career as an Electrician! Gihan has long been an advocate for the life- changing opportunities Accord can bring as he cites when he, his mother and sister moved into a brand-new three-bed home with Accord, as the moment when he knew that he wanted to make the most of this chance to make a better life for himself by doing well at school and finding a career that would give him progression and opportunity. We are delighted that Gihan has chosen Accord to make his important step into employment.