Employer Case Study

Michelle Westpfel, Director of Finance and Operations at St Thomas More High School, Westcliff-on-Sea

How has ACL Essex supported the school with your apprenticeships?

ACL has been a massive support to us with apprentices helping with any issues that arise and supporting in person in the school with meetings, they have worked well with us and the apprentices to gain a successful completion of the apprenticeship route.

How do you find apprenticeships have benefitted your school workforce?

They have become part of the school team and helped us to cope with the forever growing workload.

How did you find the support from the delivery team for your apprentices?

The delivery team offer an excellent service in recruitment of the apprentices and helping us with all the relevant paperwork.

What are your school’s future plans on offering apprenticeships?

We will as apprentices complete the course look to recruit further apprentices and if vacancies arise consider the apprenticeship route.