Standalone Functional Skills in Maths and English are available to employees in England who do not have a GCSE C or 4/5 or above, or hold a qualification at the same level.
If you have an employee that would like to complete their stand-alone Maths or English Functional Skills, please ensure that they meet the eligibility criteria:
- Employee is not currently in any other funded training/ education
- Employee has lived in the EU for at least the last 3 years
- Employee has not already completed a similar qualification
- Employee's residential address must be in England
Before submitting your nomination, please ensure you have authorisation from your Operations Consultant or Franchisee as Lifetime Training will request confirmation from them.
We will need a supporting manager to be identified to be main point of contact for the learner and Lifetime Training.
Once you have submitted your Nomination the Lifetime Team will be in touch to confirm the employees' eligibility and set up their initial assessments.
The cost for each standalone Functional Skill ‘aim’ is £150 + VAT and an invoice will be raised for the total number of aims payable to the restaurant at the start of training.
Applicants can complete functional skills in either Maths or English, or both at either level 1 or 2.
For example:
- Maths at each level only has 1 aim = £150 + VAT
- English at each level has 3 aims = £450 + VAT
Maths and English combined therefore has 4 aims = £600 + VAT
| Level | Maths | English Speaking & Listening | English Reading | English Writing |
| 1 | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT |
| 2 | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT | £150 + VAT |
Your Learner Journey
- Nominees will be sent a link to complete their initial assessments and diagnostics which needs to be completed as this gauges their current working level and identifies which level functional skills they need to complete.
- Based on the initial assessments, the Functional Skill Tutor will then plan the full learning pathway and book the candidate onto the relevant virtual classroom sessions and modules, as well as scheduling review points.
- At on-boarding the Functional Skills Tutor will book all testing dates.
Delivery of Functional Skills will be through 3 different methods:
- Functional Skills Tutor Support. This will be 1-2-1 support using a mixed approach of face to face and remote support methods
- Online Virtual Classroom Sessions. These will be topic based, half hour learning sessions covering each of the topics listed within the diagnostic assessment. These will be delivered by a core team of virtual classroom tutors.
- Small bite size Self Learning Modules. These modules will be available through the Fuse platform. These will be topic based, 15 minute modules, covering each of the topics that are listed in the diagnostic assessment.