West Midlands Skills Bootcamp: Transport Manager CPC/Sustainability Champion

This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority

TRS is offering Transport Manager/Sustainability Champion Skills Bootcamps in the West Midlands region. This course is for suitable logistics personnel to gain the transport manager CPC level 3 alongside sustainability skills. The 13-day programme is delivered flexibly over 5 weeks, and also gives delegates the skills to develop and implement a carbon reduction plan in their company. West Midlands Combined Authority subsidises this Skills Bootcamp course.

Transport Manager CPC and other benefits 

Participants achieve:

  • SEG or CILT Transport Manager CPC level 3 qualification (classroom or online training sessions)
  • Skills for developing and implementing an organisational carbon reduction plan
  • Skills to prepare for potential carbon emissions tax
  • Skills to identify how to reduce organisational energy costs

The employer benefits from having staff with these skills as well as having 90% of training costs covered by funding.

Eligibility/conditions

To be eligible for course funding, the employer can only enrol staff who live or work in the West Midlands Combined Authority area. Funding is subject to postcode eligibility checks.

Employer obligations

As the participant’s employer, you must agree to:

  • Release them to attend the Transport Manager CPC training and three 4-hour carbon literacy sessions.
  • Give them responsibilities as a transport manager within six months of completing the course. You do not need to create a new job role for them necessarily.
  • Give them the title & responsibilities of sustainability champion at the end of the course.
  • Allow them 12 hours in the workplace to develop a carbon reduction plan.
  • Contribute to feedback on the course.

Cost

This course usually costs £3456. However, West Midlands Combined Authority subsidises the cost (up to 90%). So the cost to employers is as follows:

  • £345.60 +VAT for employers of less than 250 employees
  • £1036.80 +VAT for employers of more than 250 employees

How to apply

Employers must put staff members forward for this course. For further details, please contact us using the blue contact form on this page or call 01744 809 010.

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