Apprenticeships

A Network Engineer Apprenticeship is the next progression into expanding your professional ability in the IT sector. This is a level 4 Apprenticeship and will require the dedication of 18-24 months of a learner's time, which should be considered when you apply.

A Network Engineer Apprenticeship will see you working for a business, performing Network Engineering services for them such as managing, building, and maintaining virtual and physical networks.

Typical Jobs you can apply for:

• Desk based engineer

• Dynamic network engineer

• Field-based engineer

• Infrastructure engineer

• Network administrator

• Network architect

• Network engineer

• Systems engineer

Roles you may progress into:

• Senior Network Technician

• Network Controller

• IT Manager

• Network Engineer Contractor

• Network Security Contractor

Furthermore, you will have dedicated days of learning at the college, you are effectively being taught how to be a Network Engineer through practical experience in the workplace with coworkers and through lessons provided at the college by tutors.

What you will learn:

• Network Principles

• Network Systems & Architecture

• Network Security

• CISCO IT Essentials

Your curriculum is going to surround:

• Detecting and resolving Network Failures

• Improving Network Performance

• Install and Manage Network Architecture

• Test and Analyse Network issues

• Planning and working effectively

As this is a level 4 Apprenticeship, you are able to learn while you earn and can negotiate your wage up to £18,000 per year.

One-to-one Support

You will have a Skills Coach (SC) and a Digital Programme Coordinator (DPC) assigned to support you throughout your apprenticeship.

DPC will contact you every other week to discuss your progress about Knowledge module training progress to check whether you are understanding the training and also discuss about your work placement opportunities to gather evidence for your Summative portfolio.

The Skill coach will work with you to develop your portfolio of evidence for End Point Assessment. He / She will support you to gather evidence for various workplace projects.

Both will support your employer (Technical line manager) to complete your Employer Reference, a document which highlights key competency and behaviours you have demonstrated for the final assessment as part of the End Point Assessment.

In every one-to-one session, we will set up an action plan with SMART targets for you to complete, so that you can progress your apprenticeship smoothly and achieve your apprenticeship as LVC planned.