Lifescan Quality Apprenticeship Programme 2025
24 January 2025

- Job title
- Quality Apprentice
- Reports to
- Hours
- Salary
- £18,000 starting salary, rising to £24,100, £24,500 and £25,000 in subsequent years
- Location
- Contract type
- Four-year rotational programme based in Inverness, Scotland, while studying for a Graduate Apprenticeship degree, along with other Quality-related qualifications. Excellent benefits package including; subsidised gym membership, a cycle-to-work scheme, private health care, and a matched contributions pension scheme.
What you’ll gain from the programme
Our Quality Apprenticeship programme is a fantastic opportunity to study while gaining valuable, practical knowledge & skills which are closely linked to your studies. If you’re not quite sure what your ideal job is, this programme can really help you to gain exposure and insight across the business.
As well as on the job training and personal development, this 4-year apprentice-training programme will result in the attainment of the following qualifications:
- BA(Hons) Business Management (Graduate Apprenticeship)
- SVQ Level 2 in Business Improvement Techniques
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
You'll receive coaching and mentoring, opportunities to work in a variety of departments tailored to your future, on a variety of projects, while picking up business, personal, and technical skills you can use now and throughout your career.
Invaluable experience is gained during workplace rotations, moving around a selection of departments within the entire quality organisation:
- Customer Quality
- Operations Quality Engineering
- Quality Laboratories
- Supplier Quality
- Quality Operations Inspection
- Design and Product Quality
- Validation Quality
- Software Quality Engineering
- Quality Systems
- Regulatory
Job Requirements
What are we offering for 2025?
We are looking for two Quality Apprentices for our 2025 programme.
You’ll obtain your qualifications through UHI Inverness, which is based at Inverness Campus. The successful candidates will be enrolled in August 2025, and the programme will commence in early September 2025.
The BA (Hons) Graduate Apprenticeship is SAAS funded and is available for candidates regardless of previous higher-level study. For Graduate Apprenticeships, there is no upper income limit for SAAS funding.
Successful candidates will be required to apply directly to SAAS.
The link to apply is: https://www.saas.gov.uk/full-time/graduate-apprenticeships-funding
Who are we looking for?
What’s important to us is great talent, so if you feel you are a great fit for our programme, and your qualifications and ambitions match ours, we’d love to receive your application!
What qualifications do we need?
We’re looking for applications from candidates who have either attained, or are expected to attain, the following:
Minimum of 3 SQA Highers at grade C or above, one to be a STEM subject, and one to be English or another humanities subject.
Or
Minimum of 2 A-Levels at grade C or above, one to be a STEM subject, and one to be English or another humanities subject.
You'll also be eligible to work in the UK on a permanent basis.
What skills do we want?
- A proactive approach to achieving success in both study and work
- Excellent team-working and communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Positive attitude to implementing change
Next Steps and Key Dates
We’re an agile organisation, so we’ve streamlined the recruitment process into 3 stages: Online Application (C.V and Cover Letter), Telephone Interview, and Assessment Centre (on site in Inverness).
Closing date: 23 March 2025
Telephone interviews: Early April 2025
Assessment centre: Late April 2025
How to apply
There is a link to apply via the Lifescan website - Career Site
Closing date: 23 Mar 2025