Apprenticeships

Noon Edwards now offers Improvement Apprenticeships through a trusted training partner, available via flexible in-house or open enrolment programs that can be attended face-to-face or virtually. These high-quality programs provide employees with the opportunity to achieve British Quality Foundation (BQF) Lean Six Sigma Yellow, Green, Black, or Master Black Belt Certification alongside completing Apprenticeship Levels 3, 4, 5, or 6 at no additional cost. With funding options through the Apprenticeship Levy or ESFA, these apprenticeships are accessible to a wide range of professionals, from graduate trainees to experienced managers, who are looking to enhance organisational performance.

Improvement Apprenticeships:

Noon Edwards are now able to offer Improvement Apprenticeships through our training partner via in-house tailored and open enrolment programmes delivered face-to-face or virtually. These unique high quality programmes allow employees to meet the appropriate Apprenticeship Level 3/4/5/6 standard whilst also achieving industry leading British Quality Foundation (BQF) Yellow, Green, Black or Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification at no additional cost.

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Apprenticeship Levy or ESFA Funding?

If you are an employer with an annual wage bill of more than £3m, you pay an Apprenticeship Levy of 0.5% on payroll collected through PAYE. Levy funds are collected every month by HMRC and held in your Digital Apprenticeship Service (DAS) online account. You can use this to pay for Improvement Apprenticeships. If your annual wage bill is less than £3m, you are entitled to co-investment funding where the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) pay 95% and the employer 5% of the apprenticeship costs.

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Who can be an Apprentice?

Apprenticeships aren’t just for school leavers or young people. Improvement Apprenticeships are for anybody whose role involves improving organisational performance. Our clients Improvement Apprentices come from all service and manufacturing sectors and range from graduate trainees and shop floor team leaders through to experienced functional managers, project managers and technical specialists.

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Your Trainers

The BQF Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt trainers hold a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Lifelong Learning) which certifies their competence in curriculum development, training delivery, coaching and trainee assessment. This combined with them each having 15+ years of service and manufacturing lean six sigma training, coaching and project delivery experience makes them ‘best-in-class’ in Improvement Apprenticeship delivery.

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Take a look at our Apprenticeship programmes

Our Improvement Apprenticeship programs provide a structured pathway for professionals at every level to enhance their skills in Lean Six Sigma, from foundational knowledge to mastery. Each program—from the Level 3 Improvement Technician to the Level 6 Improvement Leader—combines hands-on learning with industry-recognised British Quality Foundation certifications, including Yellow, Green, Black, and Master Black Belts. With flexible funding options available through the Apprenticeship Levy or ESFA, these apprenticeships are accessible and tailored to support your team’s growth in driving sustainable improvements across your organisation.

Improvement Technician Apprenticeship

Level 3 Improvement Technician Apprenticeship offers tailored training with Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification, funded through Levy or ESFA.

Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship

Level 4 Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship includes Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, with funding options through Levy or ESFA.

Improvement Specialist Apprenticeship

Level 5 Improvement Specialist Apprenticeship offers Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification, with flexible funding via Levy or ESFA.

Improvement Leader Apprenticeship

Level 6 Improvement Leader Apprenticeship includes Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification, with funding options via Levy or ESFA.

Lean Six Sigma Training Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lean six sigma training you will be able to:

Ensure your projects are linked to the achievement of your organisation’s strategic objectives
Capture the ‘Voice of the Customer’ to ensure any potential business process changes are aligned to customer requirements
Apply the simple, robust, structured and proven approach of DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve & Control) to process improvement
Apply project management, change management and financial project appraisal techniques
Move from a ‘Functional’ to a ‘Value Stream’ view of the organisation where stakeholders work together collectively to remove waste from the ‘Value Stream’
Understand ‘Process Behaviour’ through effective measurement and data analysis
Prioritise opportunities for process improvement
Develop ‘Permanent Corrective Actions’ for process failures
Select and use the appropriate ‘Lean Six Sigma’ tools to reduce variation, defects, cycle times, lead times, waste and costs within your processes
Influence organisational culture and employee behaviour towards supporting ‘Lean Six Sigma’
Ensure process improvements are sustained through the use of a ‘Control Plan’

Benefits to Your Organisation
‍The benefits of the Improvement Apprenticeship Standards is that they support:
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Development of internal capability to deliver process improvements on an ongoing and sustainable basis

Development of a ‘Continuous Improvement Culture’

’Financial benefits delivery i.e. revenue improvement, cost reductions and cost avoidance

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Apprenticeships

Improvement Apprenticeships:

Apprenticeship Levy or ESFA Funding?

Who can be an Apprentice?

Your Trainers

Take a look at our Apprenticeship programmes

Improvement Technician Apprenticeship

Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship

Improvement Specialist Apprenticeship

Improvement Leader Apprenticeship

Lean Six Sigma Training Learning Outcomes

Thanks for your interest.How can we help?

Thanks for your interest.
How can we help?