Skills Bootcamp

Part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life

Skills Bootcamps

Connexin Academy is proud to be working with Hull City Council and the Department for Education (DfE) through the Government’s Skills Bootcamp programme. A Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.

What are Skills Bootcamps?

Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses offered free of charge to adults aged 19 or over who want to learn new skills to progress in their current industry, or switch to a new sector.

In addition to developing practical skills that are valued by employers, you are guaranteed a job interview once you complete the course.

Our Courses

Advanced Fibre Engineering Training

Connexin is playing a vital role within the Government’s Gigabit project to provide every home in the UK with fast fibre broadband. 2025 will see copper telephone networks switched off, so the race is on to roll out fibre to millions of homes throughout the country.

We have put significant investment behind a comprehensive Fibre Engineering Training Programme to boost skills training within this sector. Anyone who wants to gain the skills and knowledge required to work within the telecommunications sector can apply to join for free – enquire now to see if you are eligible!

The course content is varied and engaging. You will have the opportunity to learn about:

· The background and history of fibre broadband

· Building a backbone network using Aerial Distribution Points (ADPs)

· Connecting fibre to homes using a customer splice point (CSP), optical network terminal (ONT), and fibre router.

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IT User Course

Whether you’re looking for a new job or hoping to take a step up where you currently work, adding a digital qualification to your CV gives you significant advantage.

Our IT User course allows you to build on your existing digital knowledge and become an expert user of the software applications that are essential in every business today.

And thanks to the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, you can now gain this qualification for FREE through our Digital Skills Bootcamp courses.

If you want to become an expert in one area of digital literacy, you can select individual modules to give you the confidence to move forward in your career. Our modules include:

· Microsoft Excel – For accountancy and data analysis

· Microsoft PowerPoint – Gain the skills to present information with flare, using transitions, animations and sound

· Web design – For those looking to start their own new venture.

These are just a few examples of the modules available in this exciting course.

If you’re looking for digital credentials or you want to open new doors in your career, enquire now.

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Cyber Security

Cyber Security is a set of practices and tools that individuals, IT staff, and governments use to keep information and devices safe from attackers. Ultimately, the goal of cyber security is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of digital information.

There is a significant skills gap in this field, which Connexin Academy is helping to address by developing this Skills Bootcamp. This free training course is specifically designed to empower you with the essential knowledge and the skills training required to implement critical cyber security practices, so you can confidently pursue employment in this exciting and growing field of business.

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I am super excited that our service delivery team are planning to enrol on this programme. Before Connexin, I was trained as a doctor. When overseeing patients who had operations, I observed that nurses who had the opportunity to see operations had a much better understanding when caring for them. Any knowledge and skilled gained through a formal learning programme, can only result in enhancing the performance of our teams and benefit customer experience. We are also giving staff the opportunity to retrain from other departments to support them moving over to our fibre engineering department.

Furqan Alamgir

Co-Founder and CEO at Connexin

I am very excited for the fibre training course that is currently being offered within the business. I believe that the course will benefit the Customer Care Team alongside the Engineering department to work hand in hand as the company progresses with our fibre rollout. The training will provide knowledge and understanding so the team can help customers with any queries as well as assist with diagnostics to give the best customer experience possible.

Julie Cape-Melborne

Customer Service Experience Manager at Connexin

It would be a great opportunity to be put forward to complete this training, to not only broaden my horizon on wanting to become a Network Engineer, but also provide me with the insight on what is expected on a customer fix to explain this better to a customer on what is required to resolve the fault.

Rebekkah Railton

Customer Service at Connexin

Skills Bootcamps are fully funded for learners by the UK Government

If you are interested in Connexin’s Advanced Fibre Engineering Training Programme, IT User Course or Cyber Security Course and want to find out more, just fill in the details below and a member of our team will be in touch. For more information about Skills for Life, please click here.