Home Building Skills Partnership - Industry Collaboration for Progress
The Home Building Skills Partnership aims to address challenges in the construction industry by improving recruitment, training, and workforce diversity, with a focus on repositioning the industry as an attractive career choice. Through collaboration and sharing of knowledge, the partnership seeks to enhance skills, productivity, and quality in home building.
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Home Building Skills Partnership BACH conference March 2018
The challenge for Home Building Improving outcomes when: Home building is a fragmented industry, with 85% indirect employment in site workforce A greater % of EU workers than construction as a whole (18%) Industry image is not good and recruitment reach is too limited
The response - Home building Skills Partnership Home Building Skills Partnership is the industry response: Clear recognition that acting together on key requirements is the way forward Funded by CITB with 25 companies actively involved and making senior staff resource available 72 companies have signed the Skills Pledge and growing Willingness to share company learning, thinking and initiatives for the greater good Agreement that a common agenda is needed covering Attraction and Skills for key roles
Governance and Active Involvement The Leadership Board comprises: How to attract new entrants into the industry John Tutte, Redrow plc Chair Andy George, Barratt Developments Anne Billson-Ross, Taylor Wimpey Anthony Wilkinson, Crest Nicholson Dave Smith, St Modwen Homes David Montague, L&Q Jenny Herdman, HBF Joanne Iddon, Morris Homes John Fitzgerald, Telford Homes John Slaughter, HBF Neil Jefferson, NHBC Sarah Beale, CITB Steve Stone, Crest Nicholson plc Attract How the industry trains its staff Skills and development Supporting supply chain development The training interface with subcontractors.
Objectives 2016 - 2020 To reposition the image of the home building industry as a career choice; To attract a larger and more diverse workforce to the home building industry; To improve the skills of the industry workforce to raise productivity and quality; To engage sub-contractors and suppliers in collaboration across the industry; To create a long term model for the partnership
Collaboration Home Building Skills Pledge 72 companies (covering at least two thirds of all new homes built) have signed up to the Home building Skills Pledge Collaborate and Share Engage and Support Train to a Standard Champion Diversity and Inclusion Promote Careers
Priorities 2018 Supporting Supply chain/Sub- Contractor companies to develop their staff Attract new entrants to home building into skills shortage roles Training to improve Quality and Productivity Involving more Home Builders
Currently happening Pilot - Training Needs Analysis tool for the role of Site Manager Pilot - Site Manager contextualised training modules Pilot - home builders claiming CITB funds to train their supply chain Analytical work to identify the size of the skills shortage and then solutions to solve them Industry wide pledge to work with the partnership Creating links from Home Builders website to the HouseBuildingCareers.org.uk website to promote the industry Pilot - bringing Military leavers into home building careers. Developing Attraction campaign Pilot - FE college construction students bridging course into employment as Bricklayers, Plasterers and Joiners.
Attracting New People to Key Roles for every extra ten thousand houses we need approximately - over 8000 new recruits into the twelve key roles Carpenter 1000 Bricklayer 2500 Plumber Plasterer/Dryliner 400 300 Roof Slater and Tiler 300 Groundwork/Plant Operative 2500 Electrician 300 Wall & Floor Tiler 150 Assistant/Site Manager 400 Engineer Sales Advisor 300 Quantity Surveyor 60 60 Key Directly employed Sub-contracted
Priorities and Delivery The Bricklayer shortage story Bricklayer Apprenticeships in England in 2015/16 employed across all construction 1500 apprentices completed level 2 350 apprentices completed level 3 FE college Bricklayer leavers in England in 2015/16 3400 students completed a bricklaying course at level 2 or above. If 25%* is applied to this cohorts it means 850 students become new entrants as bricklayers. This gives circa 2700 new bricklayers per year into the whole of construction Homebuilding need near this number of new recruits for every 10,000 houses built The recent HBF workforce census detailed - 15% of Bricklayers are from overseas, and highlighted that in London half of all bricklayers are from overseas *CITB research Destinations of construction learners in FE suggests an average of 25% of construction students have a construction job 6 months after leaving college.
Key Projects happening now get involved Attract: How to attract new entrants into the industry Bridging course for FE construction students into employment Bricklayer, Dry liner and Joiner Analytical work on the size of the skills shortage in 12 key roles and the solutions Attraction campaign targeting key job roles and key audiences Skills and Development: How the industry trains its staff Site Manager competency standard developed and agreed with contextualised training modules developed and being piloted Same process for other 11 roles .. Piloting a training needs analysis tool to define skills needs and related training Supporting supply chain development: The training interface with subcontractors. Pilot of home builders claiming CITB funds to arrange training for their sub contract supply chain Complete a survey to Understand employment structure of home building and how it differs from other parts of construction sector
Let us know you are interested at skillspartnership@hbf.co.uk www.hbf.co.uk | 0207 960 1600 | twitter: @homebuildersfed
