Essential Skills in Business
Industrial Solutions Hub
How can small businesses use essential skills to develop inclusive talent pipelines that bridge education and the workplace?
Robotics
Manufacturing
Digital
Early Talent
At Industrial Solutions Hub (iSH), we have developed and delivered a skills programme that successfully connects education with real-world opportunity, with industry challenges at its core. The programme equips individuals with the confidence, practical skills, and insight needed to thrive in the future workforce.
What sets this approach apart is its strong sense of place. Designed within a semi-rural, coastal, and geographically isolated community, the programme responds directly to local skills shortages while embracing the opportunities emerging technologies can provide. It connects the region’s nuclear decommissioning heritage with growing skills needs in robotics and digital industries.
Through a structured and well-coordinated approach, iSH delivers high-impact initiatives that create meaningful opportunities for learners, while enabling employers to build resilient, future-ready talent pipelines.
Partnering with Skills Builder allows us as an organisation to demonstrate our commitment not only to technical skills, but also to essential skills for work, ensuring that the young people and adults we work with can progress across a wide range of career pathways.
Hannah Pears - Skills Lead at Industrial Solutions Hub
Provided a rigorous benchmark to measure and articulate the impact of their Robotics Sprint programme for KS5 students.
To give structured support to care-experienced apprentices who need more support to adapt to the workplace.
92% of students on our Skills Outreach programmes recorded improvement in their essential skills, highlighting the positive impact of the programme.
100% of students have recorded an improvement in their Listening and Problem Solving skills as a result of the skills outreach programmes, making them the strongest areas of development.
81% of students said they better understood the skills employers are looking for.
How Industrial Solutions Hub achieved their Skills Builder Excellence Standards
The Skills Builder Excellence Standards set clear guidelines for best practice across a business or team.
Business or teams who achieve these indicators work towards achieving an Excellence Mark accreditation.
The Outreach Excellence Standards are outlined below.
