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Skills Bootcamps for Businesses

Unlock Potential Through Bootcamp Training

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, staying competitive means keeping your workforce ahead of the curve. Bootcamps offer an accelerated and practical way to upskill employees, equipping them with the latest industry-relevant skills in weeks rather than years. Unlike traditional training programs, bootcamps are hands-on, immersive, and designed to deliver immediate results, ensuring your team can quickly apply what they learn to drive real business impact.

A Smarter Investment in Your Team

By investing in bootcamp training, employers not only strengthen their teams capabilities but also foster loyalty and engagement. Employees who feel supported in their professional growth are more motivated, adaptable, and likely to stay long term. Whether it’s digital skills, data literacy, leadership, or technical expertise, bootcamps provide tailored learning that aligns directly with organisational goals helping businesses innovate faster, fill critical skill gaps, and future-proof their workforce.

Next Steps

A wide range of Skills Bootcamps across growing sectors like digital, construction, health, and green skill are available to North Somerset Businesses and are facilitated by partner organisations, a full list of training can be found on this link Skills Bootcamps – Training for your staff – West of England Combined Authority Once you find a Bootcamps that meets your needs, visit the provider’s website, contact the provider to take your next step or contact us Business@n-somerset.gov.uk to discuss your needs further.

Workforce development

North Somerset Economic Development function

North Somerset Economic Development team can provide impartial skills advice, guidance and recruitment support, free of charge.

Contact the Employment and Skills team at business@n-somerset.gov.uk.

West of England Growth Hub

Fully funded 1-2-1 business support for SME’s and scale up businesses.
The team of Enterprise Executives will assess your needs, share a wide range of services and help to support your business https://www.wearegrowth.co.uk/workforce

Workforce for the Future

The programme provided by West of England Combined Authority is designed to support SMEs with skills shortages and skills needs Workforce for the Future – Combined Authority (westofengland-ca.gov.uk)

Wellbeing and organisational support for your workforce

Healthy Workplaces

The workplace is a key setting that plays a key role in contributing to the health and wellbeing of employees, which in turn supports the health of the organisation. Lots of free support is available to employers and employees in a wide variety of health areas like mental health, physical activity, stop smoking, menopause, men’s health, musculoskeletal health, alcohol and substance misuse, financial wellbeing and lot more.

Find out more: https://www.betterhealthns.co.uk/practitioners/healthyworkplaces/

North Somerset Healthy Workplace Award

Don’t know where to start with improving the health and wellbeing of your workplace? The North Somerset Healthy Workplaces Award is a free programme which provides a flexible framework that enables you to capture existing work that supports the health and well-being of your employees. It will help you to identify areas that may need some improvement and also provide you with inspiration and ideas, to progress and make positive changes in your workplace. Find out more https://www.betterhealthns.co.uk/practitioners/healthyworkplaces/north-somerset-healthy-workplace-award-programme/

Thrive at Work west of England

Mental health support for the workforce developed by West of England Combined Authority https://wearegrowth.co.uk/covid-19/thrive-at-work-west-of-england/

Employers for carers

North Somerset Council supports working carers, and is an active member of Carers UK’s business forum. Find out more about how can you support your employees with caring responsibilities here EfC digital leaflet_01

Disability Confident

North Somerset Council has a Disability Confident Leader status. This enables us to draw from the widest possible pool of talent, and secure, retain and develop disabled staff who are skilled, loyal and hardworking. Find out more on how to become a Disability Confident Employer here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/disability-confident-how-to-sign-up-to-the-employer-scheme

Support with redundancies

Free service, open to all businesses in North Somerset at risk of making redundancies

Business support interventions aiding diversification, increasing productivity and resilience
Support with workforce planning and skills needs analysis
Access to a talent retention platform, helping with recruitment
Bespoke, accredited, funded training for both employers and employees
Higher-level skills development including leadership & management and supervisory skills training

Benefits for Businesses

Increased workforce skills levels, improving performance and profitability
Competitive advantage in the marketplace and improved chance of winning new business
Improved staff satisfaction and motivation, reducing staff turnover
A wider appeal to new recruits

By engaging with the service, business will be able to access free information, advice and guidance on their responsibilities as an employer and support their workforce through the redundancy process, helping them to be able to secure alternative employment and receive information, advice and guidance on running a redundancy process. Business will also be able to access support with restructuring after the redundancy exercise has taken place.

Job Centre Plus Rapid Response Service

You can get help from the Jobcentre Plus Rapid Response Service to:

write CVs and find jobs
find information on benefits
find the right training and learn new skills
organise work trials (if you’re eligible)
get any extra help at work if you’re disabled, for example Access to Work

Support with recruitment

Employer of Choice

Become an Employer of Choice for young people by creating a coordinated approach to work experience programmes, traineeships, industry placements and apprenticeships.

What’s the benefit?

The creation of a co-ordinated and expanded work experience offer
Generation of entry level jobs with clearly articulated progression opportunities
Investment in staff development, succession planning and support areas with recruitment and retention issues
Ability to support the most vulnerable residents into sustained employment

Contact business@n-somerset.gov.uk to find out what you can do to become an employer of choice.

Working with untapped talent pool

There are a number of local initiatives which can provide access to unemployed individuals across all skills levels, providing targeted support to both businesses and the individuals where required.

North Somerset Community Learning is part of the Community Learning West consortium, working along with Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council, providing employability training opportunities for North Somerset residents.

West of England Works Team North Somerset supports those facing multiple challenges to employment like caring responsibilities, mental health issues, disabilities, learning difficulty, drug and alcohol recovery etc. Contact Team North Somerset on 01934 411 573

North Somerset Economic Development team can provide impartial skills advice, guidance and recruitment support, free of charge. Contact the Employment and Skills team at business@n-somerset.gov.uk.