HETV Trainee Grips Programme (United Kingdom)

Training for the UK high-end TV industry is supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund (with contributions from productions companies, broadcasters and SVoDs in the UK).

The High-end TV Skills Fund is looking for an organisation or individual/s who can design and run an Introduction to working on set training programme for grips.

Funding Information

• They are looking for bids of up to £28,000

Participant Aims

• The training should be for a minimum of 50 participants based across the UK and should target grips who are about to step up from being trainees or who are in their first year of having stepped up into the role.
• The following are the minimum diversity aims for this programme:
  • At least 50% of beneficiaries based outside London (10 to be based in Northern Ireland)
  • 20% minority ethnic groups (ethnicity aim)
  • 50% women (gender aim)
  • 10% disability (disability aim)
  • 10% LGBT (sexual orientation and gender identity aim)
• ScreenSkills aims to go beyond legal diversity requirements and considers additional measures of inclusivity, including:
  • employment status
  • whether a person is returning to work following leave
  • geographical location (including representation of nations and regions)
  • socio-economic background.

Key Requirements

• The applicant must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver training for 50 trainee grips or grips who have recently stepped up into the role who would like to gain a better practical understanding of working on set and developing confidence in their roles. The training should be run as a two-day course for ten people in five different locations across the UK (40 based across the UK and 10 in Northern Ireland).

Who can apply?

• ScreenSkills welcomes applications from individuals, partnerships or organisations that have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects.
• They particularly welcome applications from providers based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations and/or in partnership with freelancers who have worked as grips in HETV.
• The successful applicant will need to demonstrate their understanding of HETV training requirements, including the diversity challenges facing the industry and must clearly demonstrate that they have the resources to track the career progression of participants beyond the life of the programme.
• If applicants are already delivering similar training and can expand their offer to include the scope, they are also welcomed to apply.
• Applicants must:
  • demonstrate evidence of appropriate, recent engagement with the industry in the design and delivery of the programme
  • meet critical diversity aims as outlined in this tender, including:
    • making reasonable adjustments to the training (whether face-to-face, content or online and including during the application process) to make it accessible to a diverse audience – they will ask for evidence of your approach and implementation.
    • having an equality policy in place as an employer
    • having a monitoring system in place to track the diversity of the delegates
    • providing diversity and inclusivity training to facilitators
  • gather long-term destination data from the delegates to prove impact of training utilising the ScreenSkills monitoring questionnaire.
  • develop a clear structure for the training, ensuring that it is outcome focused.
  • discuss and agree with those taking part in the programme that they will provide feedback on the training if requested which could include providing ScreenSkills with a quote on their experience of the training.

For more information, visit ScreenSkills.