A complete Level 4 AI & Automation apprenticeship, written from the standard up
We were commissioned to build the Skills England Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner apprenticeship in full: an eleven section, audit ready curriculum, the complete assessment suite and the live onboarding that put it in front of employers and learners.
UK Apprenticeship Training Provider
2026
Skilling
Full programme build
An audit ready programme mapped to all 64 KSBs, with the employer and learner onboarding delivered
A UK training provider commissioning its first delivery of the Skills England Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner standard.
The situation
The provider had won the standard but had none of the programme written, and a first cohort was approaching. A credible AI and automation apprenticeship has to cover all 64 knowledge, skills and behaviour requirements across 420 guided learning hours, pass audit and stay engaging enough for a learner to finish.
What we did
Skill the workforce
Specification and high level design
We wrote the programme specification and high level design first, so every later artefact traced back to the standard: the competency framework, the delivery model and how the 13 to 18 month journey fits around a working apprentice.
Curriculum and scheme of work
An eleven section curriculum mapped to all 64 KSBs, with a 420 guided learning hour scheme of work, unit level designs and off the job logging built in. The syllabus is deliberately tool agnostic, teaching across n8n, Zapier, Make, Power Automate, Copilot and Claude, so learners build judgement rather than loyalty to one product.
Assessment, IQA and end-point assessment
Formative and summative assessment, the internal quality assurance plan, mock end-point assessment and readiness evidence, all written to be handed to an auditor as they are.
Statutory content from the start
Safeguarding, Prevent, British Values, EDI and GDPR are built into the programme from the first unit, so it meets its statutory requirements throughout rather than in an appendix.
Delivered the onboarding ourselves
We scripted and delivered the employer insight session and the learner onboarding live, so the programme launched with delivery from the team that wrote it.
Outcomes
What the client was left with
- An eleven section, audit ready curriculum mapped to all 64 KSBs
- Programme specification, scheme of work and unit level designs
- Assessment, IQA and end-point assessment materials ready for audit
- Employer insight and learner onboarding delivered live
n8n, Zapier, Make, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, Claude
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