Our training and employment programmes are designed to help you fast track your career. You’re getting started in the sector you want to work in, with a course that’s all about getting you the skills and experience that employers are looking for.
We’re not like school or college. We work with employers across the Liverpool City Region to get you real work experience.
All of our tutors are friendly and committed to making your talent shine.
- Learn about your chosen industry and experience what it’s really like
- Fast track courses mean you'll progress into work and start earning a wage quickly
- Get experience for your CV with an industry work placement
- Develop your employability skills
- Support to progress into our EXCLUSIVE apprenticeship opportunities
- Support with Maths and English
Find out more at our upcoming open days! Meet the tutors, check out our campus and get careers advice and guidance.
Our courses
Picture Your Future
Duration: 12 weeks
Location: Liverpool
This is a great course for anyone who's not sure what they want to do. It's designed to improve your employability so you'll work on developing the key skills you need to take the next steps into a career!
- Explore a range of different sectors to find out what career path you'd like to follow
- Visits from guest speakers and employers to learn about their career journey
- Team building challenges and activities outside the classroom
- Real work experience with a fantastic local employer, based on your interests
- Opportunities to apply for apprenticeship vacancies after completing the programme
You'll develop your employability skills too, including:
- Time management
- Teamwork
- Work standards
- Health and safety
- Customer service skills
- Wellbeing and resilience
- Communication skills
- Problem solving
- Organisation skills
- Skills needed for the workplace
- First aid
Will I get work experience?
As part of this course, you'll undertake a work experience placement with a top local employer. It's all about YOUR future so we'll help you identify which sector you're interested in, and we'll find a workplace that supports your career goals.
Will I get a qualification?
Upon completion of the course you'll gain a Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work.
What can I do next?
Once you've completed this course, you can progress with our exclusive apprenticeship opportunities.
Sound Check
Duration: 12 weeks
Location: Birkenhead
Working with Future Yard, one of the most exciting new live music venues in the UK, if you're 16-18 (or up to 24 if you have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), this study programme will introduce you to the skills you need for careers in the live music industry.
Find out about the different roles including lighting, sound engineering, marketing, ticketing and promotion and more! Complete 12 weeks of training and you could progress into paid work in the industry.
Childcare
Duration: 12 weeks
Location: Liverpool
Do you dream of a career working with children? This programme is designed to give you the skills and experience required to get you where you want to be. It includes all the knowledge and skills you'll need including:
- Knowledge of young children's development
- Keeping children safe
- Employability skills
- Paediatric first aid
- Customer service skills
- Wellbeing and resilience
- Skills needed for the workplace
- Transferable skills such as communication, team work, problem solving
- Support with Maths and English (if required)
Will I get work experience?
As part of this course, you'll undertake a work experience placement at a top local nursery. You'll learn about the nursery environment and learn about how professionals take care of children and provide an enriching and engaging environment to support their development.
Will I get a qualification?
Upon completion of the course you'll gain:
- NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate Introducing Caring for Children and Young People
- Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work
Where can I go?
Once you've completed this course, you can progress into an apprenticeship in childcare and start earning a wage. We've got exclusive apprenticeship vacancies with top local employers - and we'll help you apply!
So what are you waiting for?
Dental Nursing
Duration: 12 weeks
Location: Liverpool
Our dental programme will explore the key skills you need to progress into a dental career, including:
- The role of a dental nurse
- Experience mixing materials in a dental setting
- Knowledge of the tooth structure
- Professionalism for a dental career
- Decontamination
- Health and Safety
- First-aid
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Customer service
- Interview skills
- Digital skills
- English and Maths (if needed)
Will I get work experience?
As part of this course, you'll undertake a work experience placement at a dental practice, shadowing dental nurses to find out about their role, assisting with sterilisation of equipment, dealing with patients, preparing surgeries for procedures, and more!
Where can I go?
Once you've completed this course, you can progress onto an apprenticeship in dental nursing. We've got exclusive apprenticeship vacancies with top local employers - and we'll help you apply!
So what are you waiting for?
Construction
Duration: 12 weeks
Location: Liverpool
This construction training programme will set you on the right path to a successful career in the building industry. From new homes to world famous football stadiums and everything in between, you’ll meet renowned guest speakers and learn about:
- An introduction to construction
- Health and safety in a construction environment
- CSCS training
- Green skills
- Introduction to construction
- Customer service skills
- Wellbeing and resilience
- Employability skills
- Skills needed for the workplace
- Transferable skills such as communication, team work, problem solving
- First aid
Will I get work experience?
You’ll undertake a work placement with a local construction company, getting hands on experience for your future career.
Will I get a qualification?
You’ll leave this course with:
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A CSCS card, which allows you to work on UK construction sites
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Level 1 award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment
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Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work
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Maths and/or English functional skills (if needed)
What can I do next?
Once you've completed this course, you can move straight into employment and apprenticeship opportunities. We've got exclusive apprenticeship vacancies with top local employers - and we'll help you apply!
So what are you waiting for?
Youth Employment Support (YES) Programme
Duration: 8 weeks of classroom teaching followed by up 6+ months on work placement.
Location: Liverpool
The Youth Employment Support (YES) Programme is designed to give young people aged 16-24 a real flavour of life in the working world. With eight weeks in the classroom then up to six months out in the workplace, you’ll finish the course ready to walk into a full-time paid role.
Who is the course for?
The Youth Employment Support (YES) Programme is for people aged 16-24 living in the Liverpool City Region who have a learning support need, an Education, Health and Care Plan or are neurodiverse.
If you are not sure if you qualify but would like to apply, please register your interest and a member of our team will be in touch.
What will I do on the course?
- Explore a range of different sectors to find out what career path you'd like to follow
- Visits from guest speakers and employers to learn about their career journey
- Team building challenges and activities outside the classroom
- Real work experience with a fantastic local employer, based on your interests
What skills will I learn?
- Time management and teamwork
- Work standards and health and safety
- Customer service and communication skills
- Wellbeing and resilience
- Problem solving and organisation skills
Learning on the job
As part of this course, you'll undertake a work experience placement with a top local employer. It's all about YOUR future so we'll help you identify which sector you're interested in, and we'll find a workplace that supports your career goals. Only the first eight weeks of teaching are in the classroom, the rest you’re out on the job putting those new skills into practice!
What support will I have?
You will be assigned a coach on your first day at The Learning Foundry who will support you throughout the programme , even when your eight weeks of classroom learning are over. We also have a designated learner support and safeguarding team on campus who are there to help if you ever need them. You can view our full learner support offer, here.
What can I do next?
Once you've completed this course, we will support you to find employment, access further education or progress with our exclusive apprenticeship opportunities.
Book an open day visit to find out more
Travel and childcare support available and free meals provided.
Subject to eligibility
What our learners say
"Learning from a piece of paper was just not for me. I really didn’t enjoy learning at college and the course wasn’t right for me either. I signed up for The Learning Foundry and the ‘Picture Your Future’ traineeship was ideal to show me all the options that were out there. My confidence has grown so much since and now I’m in an apprenticeship role I love."
Mia, Former learner
"The Learning Foundry has helped me so much with my confidence, my self-esteem my timekeeping. It’s helped me get my life back on track and make something for myself and my daughter. I always thought I’d just be a care kid and wouldn’t go far in life and without this course and my amazing tutors and classmates I honestly don’t know where I’d be today."
Lucy, Former Learner
“I love being independent on my apprenticeship, I enjoy my sessions and I’m finding it easy to manage around my other work. My tutor is lovely and so responsive. Learning at TLF is not like school at all. I have developed great skills – I'm so much more confident, I’m speaking to people I would never have met otherwise."