Employers Membership Information

The Motorsport Academy acts as a bridge between employers, educators and individuals. Our purpose and mission is to support UK motorsport to attract, recruit, develop and retain staff with relevant world-class skills and expertise.

For businesses involved with or looking to invest in motorsport, we provide a one-stop shop for information, advice and problem-solving, by offering:

Legal and HR advice
Recruitment advice and support
Staff development and training
Practical support with a range of recruitment and human resource practices
Links with education
Education and training database
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Finding the right people

The Academy helps motorsport businesses find and nurture the talent crucial to the success of the industry. Working closely with employers and educators, we aim to ensure that there is a continuing flow of appropriately skilled recruits capable of enhancing the success of the businesses they join.

Specific initiatives targeted towards finding the right people include:

The Motorsport Academy Jobs Board

Provides the facility for employers to post live job vacancies and search our online database for suitable candidates.

Recruitment Services

We can assist with any element of the recruitment process from helping to design job descriptions, adverts and interview frameworks, or practical support with finding, screening or interviewing candidates and additional services, such as psychometric testing. We can also work with you to take away time-consuming routine administration tasks, by managing communications between your company and job applicants.

For all on-site service options, an individual consultation is included with one of our experienced consultants to explore the range of available options and agree a solution to suit your needs.

Developing world-class talent

Given the strong and valuable tradition within the industry of training staff ‘on-the-job’, the Academy seeks to complement this by linking with relevant continuous professional development opportunities, as well as finding job placements for students.

Career progression

The Academy can help businesses to identify the most appropriate learning and development opportunities for staff at all levels by combining our expertise of conducting effective training needs analysis and recommending suitable options, based on our knowledge of your business, combined with available solutions, local educators and training providers.

Apprenticeships

To help your business make the most of apprentices and available programmes, we will be reviewing the current levels of provision with the aim of ensuring availability of programmes to meet the future needs of the industry, which offer the relevance and flexibility you and your trainees require.

Web-based education and training portal

This contains details of the latest education and training programmes, covering the full offering of postgraduate, undergraduate, vocational, technician, work-based learning, management and volunteer programmes. Learners can review the full offering of motorsport based courses in the UK and choose the one that is right for them, while the Motorsport Academy can also help sign-post employers and their learners to the most appropriate education and training programmes.

Easing the HR burden

Given the speed of changes relating to employment legislation, the Academy can provide practical help to guide employers through this legal minefield. Our range of services includes:

Legal/HR advice helpline

Access to our qualified professionals is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to guide you through any difficulties you may encounter. Our team specialise in providing pragmatic and legally compliant advice on all employment and consumer legislation matters.

Online HR Toolkit

Our online HR toolkit offers a range of legally compliant templates for download, as well as guidance materials on a variety of recruitment and HR topics, including:

Timely legal updates and regular bulletins signposting relevant changes
Step by step guidelines to help implementation of fair and objective processes
Model policies and procedures to aid consistency and continuity
Standard letters and templates providing practical help in a range of areas

HR Seminars

If you, or someone in your organisation is responsible for keeping up to date with the changes in Employment Law, our forthcoming bi-annual workshops may provide you with the perfect solution. Our workshops will be run by practising legal experts and are aimed at providing a bite-size, practical overview of how to interpret and action any forthcoming changes in legislation.

On-site HR healthcheck

To ensure your organisation stays on the right side of Employment Law, our experienced Consultants offer an on-site service to ensure you have adequate processes in place to meet your requirements as an employer, promoting best working practices and minimising the risk of litigation.

We can also help you to prepare for any forthcoming changes in legislation and provide advice in additional areas such as recruitment, training and development. All services are tailored to meet the needs of your business and offer pragmatic and practical solutions and support.

Building links with educators

The pace of development in motorsport requires recruits who can ‘hit the ground running’, therefore we aim to work closely with educators and employers to ensure that the courses on offer develop learners with the skills needed by business and continue to evolve alongside the industry.

Qualifications and standards development

By working with employers, educators, sector skills councils and awarding bodies, we will be driving the development and application of National Occupational Standards for levels 4 and 5, ensuring the recognition and acceptance of qualifications throughout the curriculum.

Recognition scheme for educators and trainers

To promote and develop the achievement of educators that are successfully working to develop students with the skills, knowledge and approach valued by employers, we aim to provide a fair and transparent recognition scheme, encouraging participation and feedback from employers and individuals who have experienced the programmes first-hand.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)

If you have a strategic need to develop new aspects of your business or evolve new products, then you may want to find out more about the work we are doing around KTPs. KTPs offer the motorsport industry access to the talent and research produced by our colleges and universities and we plan to provide a signposting service to assist companies to find the KTP partner and associates best placed to take forward and implement your ideas.