Apprenticeships offer a powerful opportunity to grow professionals who are ready to deliver inclusive, future-focused education in every classroom and department. Whether your priority is strengthening SEND provision, expanding pastoral support or developing tomorrow’s leaders, work-based learning helps you achieve it with purpose and impact.
Empower your senior leaders to unlock potential in others, deepen self-awareness, and lead with clarity. – enhancing collaboration, performance, and well-being across the educational community. A transformational journey, both personal and professional.
Apprenticeships in Education combine accredited study with hands-on experience inside schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts. Learning happens in context, so confidence and competence grow on the job.
In today’s fast-moving education landscape, apprenticeships are more than training; they are a strategic tool for building capacity, capability and resilience across your workforce.
Understanding the Education Context Education settings face rising expectations, complex learner needs and relentless accountability. At the same time, the sector is shifting towards more personalised, inclusive learning that closes attainment gaps and supports wellbeing. Apprenticeships provide structured development at the point of need, ensuring new and existing roles—such as Wellbeing Leads, Learning Coaches and Inclusion Specialists—add measurable value from day one.
The Increasing Importance of Integration Specialist and support roles bring fresh expertise but risk isolation if they are not embedded within teaching teams and whole-school systems. Successful employers use apprenticeships to integrate these roles, creating shared language and consistent approaches across classrooms, pastoral services and central functions.
Current Challenges in Practice Staff shortages, workload pressures and evolving statutory requirements place heavy demands on educators. Without protected learning time and reliable supervision, new colleagues can struggle to find their footing, and experienced staff may not develop the coaching and leadership skills needed for modern education. Overcoming these barriers is essential to sustaining a resilient, motivated workforce.
Workforce Development Priorities We believe that effective workforce development in the Education sector must:
- Equip staff with coaching and high-impact communication skills that enhance teaching, mentoring and parent engagement.
- Embed evidence-based practices like metacognition, self-regulation and restorative approaches.
- Protect space for reflective practice, supervision and peer learning communities.
- Foster resilience and wellbeing to improve retention and job satisfaction.
Our Experience
TPC Health has partnered with schools, colleges, local authorities and MATs to design and deliver programmes that match sector priorities. For instance, we have:
- Helped shape best practice for coaching and mentoring in education.
- Supported innovation in inclusive, learner-centred approaches across mainstream and specialist settings.
- Trained thousands of frontline and leadership staff in applying coaching to professional dialogue and organisational change.
- Led national support-services that offered rapid, confidential coaching to professionals (including education) during the pandemic.
Our training focuses on practical skills, professional identity and embedded application. Whether you’re integrating new roles or cultivating collaborative, person-centred teams, we bring the expertise to make workforce development meaningful and sustainable.
Suitable Education Roles
The Level 5 Coaching Professional Apprenticeship :
- Senior and middle leaders embedding a coaching culture
- Teaching & Learning or Curriculum Coaches
- SEND, Inclusion and Pastoral Leads
- Trust-wide workforce or professional-development leads
Contact us to discuss your needs