All Diplomas require 10 days' work experience at levels 1, 2 and 3, except for Society, Health and Development, which requires 20 days at level 3. These requirements are set by the DDPs (Diploma Development Partnerships) and are the same across all awarding bodies.
Why choose work experience with Trident from Edexcel?
Trident's aim is to offer young people a meaningful experience of work while they study for the Diploma, helping to improve their employability and enterprise skills and aiding their development as individuals.
As the leading provider of work experience placements, Trident is uniquely placed to support learning outside the classroom and can offer unrivalled expertise in placing young people of all abilities in standard or extended work placements.
Engaging with Trident allows you to concentrate on the learner’s experience of work as Trident takes responsibility for securing and managing the placement.
Benefits for consortia partners
• All work placements offered by Trident have undergone a risk assessment and a health and safety check - so you can have complete confidence that your learners will be safe
• Trident takes the hassle out of the process of work placements by offering an efficient and professional placement process
• Trident Online's one-click reporting makes it easy for you to manage the placement process, increasing flexibility and reducing paperwork
• A bespoke, additional mentoring support service is available for learners with particular needs, where required.
Benefits for students and their parents
Students are at the heart of the work experience process and Trident recognises how important it is that their first experience of work is positive.
• Trident offers the widest range of appropriate national work placement opportunities
• It prepares young people to ensure that they make the most out of their work placement, and develops their employability and enterprise skills
• Trident is also able to include work placements found by students or parents.
Benefits for employers
Trident has been engaging with employers for over 35 years and already works with over 90,000 employers per year, providing a complete work-based solution including a health and safety visit and an online risk assessment.
• Trident offers a streamlined process of work placements by offering a free, efficient and professional placement service
• It provides an online feedback facility so that employers can monitor the success of their work placement programme
• Employers have the opportunity to invest in young people and possibly find and recruit talent to build for the future
• Students are fully prepared for their work placement, ensuring commitment and professionalism from the participating student, without wasting valuable time and resources.
Trident Online
Trident Online is a web-based tool that significantly reduces paperwork for consortia and enables students to choose a placement that suits their programme of study from the hundreds of placements available in their area.
As the system is web-based, those supporting the learner across the consortia, including parents, can take appropriate roles as students match their aspirations with available placements.
Edexcel is uniquely placed to offer this service to consortia.
To find out more, visit the Trident website.