b'ST HELENS TRAINING CENTRESt Helens Training CentreAs a service provider, our Kelly Group workforce is our extended family, which is why we invest in their safety, training, careers, welfare, vehicles and tools they need to deliver excellence. Supporting our customers in the North of England, we have recently opened our new state-of-the-art national training facility at our multi-disciplinary operational centre in St Helens. Mark Brian (Head of Recruitment and Training) gave us an insight into the new facilities in St Helens and discussed what the future holds for our Kelly Group training department. New State-of-the-Artsupporting thenew buildingwithone Training Centre at Stsmalltrainingroomandan a copper practical room for Helens additional 15 trainees. Onourtraininggrounds,wefeaturedtwopole We were excited to open our new state-of-the-artfields, street works bays, chambers and ducting to training centre in September 2022 at St Helens. Theaccommodate the PIA test rod and rope training.new training school has a vast number of facilities Mark Brianavailable, including a practical training room whereCarl Diggins oversees the operation locally as a centre (Head of Recruitmentour national trainers are able to teach fibre splicing,manager and he is supported by three experienced and Training)networkbuildfortheOpenreachandCityFibrenational trainers, Roy Litter, Tony Lewis and Stephen contracts and setting up MDUs, which will supportWoods. KellyGroupsnewOpenreachMDUcontractby training engineers for the northwest region. Within the same practical training space, we are able to trainThe Trainee Engineer all installation elements on our practical wall, while perfecting customer service skills using our artificial house setting. Furthermore, our new training spaceJourneyfacilitatesonebigclassroom,whichcansplitinto smaller rooms, and a third classroom, all collectively accommodating 60 trainees at any time. Kelly Groups new-to-field engineers normally spend two weeks at our training centre, however, this may Kelly Group had existing training facilities,vary depending on the contract they will be working here at St Helens, where we couldon, which is then followed by a two-week long buddy delivertrainingcoursesonperiod. amuchsmallerscale. ThesefacilitiesWhen trainees arrive on their first day we hold a meet arenowand greet session, where our trainers introduce new starterstothecompany,followedbytheirdriving seminar delivered by one of the Groups driving assessors. The second day starts with the CompaniesSafetyCampaignNEST, which leads into the Health and Safety induction and focuses on their health andsafetyinductionandpractical elementssuchas,settingupladders safely,theuseofthetetrasystem, the correct way of opening chambers, JDUsandsafedrilling.Towrapup their first week at Kelly Group, trainees will complete their first pole climbs on small practice poles, then learn how to set up ladders and climb larger poles. The first week is very much health and safetyfocusedandprovidestrainees with hands-on experience on the basic practices. The second week of training focuses on the craft element of their training journeyasengineerslearnand complete fibre or copper installs to 14 .The Networker Spring 2023'