Service Leavers
New Career Skills is keen to assist all types of students from varied backgrounds to retrain for new careers as plumbers, electricians and in renewables.
Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC)
New Career Skills is a registered training provider with the Enhanced Learning Credit Administration Service (often referred to as ELC or ELCAS). The aim of the ELC is to promote "lifelong learning" amongst service personnel, providing the opportunity to claim financial support towards retraining, either for a potential role within the armed forces, or for a future career upon leaving the services.
New career Skills' provider reference number with ELC is 2073.
To find out more contact our Manager, Armed Forces Liaison
Phone: 0345 531 0021
Email: elcas@newcareerskills.co.uk
Please visit the Enhanced Learning Credit Administration Service web site for more details - Click Here
New Career Skills is also a Preferred Supplier to the Career Transition Partnership.
The Career Transition Partnership (CTP) provides advice and information for personnel who are leaving or have already left the Armed Forces.
In order to be accredited as a Preferred Supplier to the CTP we have gone through a stringent application process to ensure the quality of our training and service offering to service personnel.


"I'm a professional rugby player but sustained a career threatening injury. I realised that I needed a skill. The NCS course fitted perfectly around my life..."
"The NCS package out classed the competitors and enabled me to get out into the industry quickly. I now own a successful electrical business..."
"I had become completely office bound at the age of 49 and decided I wanted to run my own business. I now have my own successful plumbing..."
"At 44 I decided I wanted flexibility and a better work/life balance. Now I am running my own plumbing company and I have exactly that..."
"I wanted flexible hours and becoming an electrician could afford me that luxury. There is a crying need for more skilled women electricians..."
"I'm yet to finish the course, but I have still started up my own business importing, selling and installing solar systems. I think I will have a great future..."