Health, Social Care and Childcare
The Health and Social Care industry has never been more in demand. With an increasing need for high quality adult social care and childcare, it’s vital for businesses to grow a talent pipeline to avoid skills shortages.
About MK College
Working with MK College is a great way to attract fresh, engaged workers into your business and ensure that the Care sector is well-equipped to be able to grow and thrive.
At MK College, we are specialists in technical vocational training, offering everything from Apprenticeships in Care professions to short courses and degree-level qualifications – and thanks to our broad curriculum, we can offer solutions for staff in all parts of your business.
When partnering with us you will be uniquely placed to engage with future talent and grow your own talent pipeline through employer guest speaker opportunities, meaningful work experience placements, employer forums and input into our curriculum design. What’s more, our staff are experienced and knowledgeable having worked in industry themselves and can help you stay on top of all the latest industry trends.
It is estimated that 7.3% of the roles in adult social care were vacant in 2019/20, equal to approximately 112,000 vacancies at any one time.
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“At Red Giraffe, we are so impressed at the approach MK College takes in the development of their students. Their strong commitment to bridging the education and employment gap stood out for us and we were thrilled with the quality of candidates put forward for work experience. We couldn’t be happier to work in partnership with such a friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable team.”
EMPLOYER TESTIMONIALS
Red Giraffe
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“MK College are a fantastic provider and ensure all stakeholders receive a quality service, from the apprentices and their managers to me as the Apprenticeship Lead. MK College Tutors and the Employer Engagement Team are very responsive and communicative, other providers should take note! Their flexi-intakes have enabled us to enrol apprentices at the right time for the individual and the business. I also find the employer view on OneFile an easy and effective way of monitoring apprentice progress.”
EMPLOYER TESTIMONIALS
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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“CTE has been working with MK College for two years and it’s been an incredibly positive experience. Both of our apprentices have exceeded our expectations. The process of signing up an apprentice can be daunting to the uninitiated; however, the team at the College are helpful at every stage.”
James Zammett
CTE Advanced Technologies Ltd.
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“MK College’s commitment to the delivery of excellent customer service has stood out. From recruitment and candidate assessment through to onboarding and continued support and communication, the team have been nothing short of phenomenal.”
David Bevan
Blue Chip Technologies
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“Santa Maria has worked with MK College for several years. They helped us with recruiting our previous apprentice and after having such a good experience we have since taken on our current apprentice through the college. The level of candidates is particularly good, and the college are extremely helpful throughout the process.”
Neil Lazenbury
Santa Maria UK Ltd.
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“As a nursery, we have been working closely with Milton Keynes College for many years welcoming students on long term placements and on one-off visits to the nursery. This has been a successful venture for us, as we currently have in our staff team four members of staff who were students with us; two of whom are now employed as room mangers.”
Karen Allford
Little Explorers Day Nursery
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“PJ Care is currently working alongside MK College in a number of ways, and this is something we are extremely proud of. We have managed to up skill our existing workforce by utilising Apprenticeship programmes, bespoke training packages and through promoting the fully funded Health and Social Care Distance Learning courses.”
Alexander Balicki
PJ Care
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“Kids Play Childcare are proud to support Milton Keynes College, and sponsor the Early Years Childcare area of learning. It is a mutually beneficial partnership that we see going from strength to strength.”
Lucy Horwood
Kids Play Childcare
Some employers we work with
