Personal & Professional Development

Personal Development

Our programme aims to support you in your career; offering teaching skills, counselling skills, basic employability skills and other professional development opportunities.

Bookkeeping

We have won International Association of Bookkeepers (IAB) Top Centre Gold Award for the last five years. Our award-winning courses will help you progress at work or into a new job.

We can help you gain the necessary skills to carry out a range of basic day to day manual & computerised bookkeeping routines and activities using a single entry manual bookkeeping system. Good bookkeeping is essential to business maintenance, a bookkeeper keeps track of monies coming into and out of the business. By maintaining accurate financial records, bookkeepers help small, medium and micro businesses. We offer two levels of our bookkeeping courses.

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Counselling

We have a range of Counselling courses that can help you progress into a job in this area, starting from the Introduction to Counselling up to a Level 3 qualification. We can help you develop a range of skills, personal qualities and attitudes essential in the use of counselling skills, It will not teach you to be a counsellor but it will prepare you to undertake workplace experience as a trainee counsellor. With the other learners in your Course you will learn more about counselling theory and agency work.

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Food Safety Qualifications at Level 2

Give yourself the edge and get on board with this one day training course leading to nationally recognised These qualifications can give you a competitive edge for your CV. These are mainly one day training courses that lead to nationally recognised qualification:

CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Catering – Click here for more info

If you are receiving JSA, ESA (WRAG), Lone parent Income Support (WRA) or Universal Credit (Mandated Skills Training only). If you are unemployed, either looking for work or will be looking for work in the future, and are in receipt of any other state benefit, you may be eligible for a fully funded (you pay no fee) course.

Health & Social Care

We can offer a range of courses to help you develop knowledge and skills with the aim of preparing you for work or a volunteer role in the sector. These include;

Substance Misuse Awareness
Mental Health Awareness
Safeguarding -Coaching
Mentoring in the Workplace.

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Teacher Training

For those involved in teaching or training, or intending to work in this area. We offer an Introduction to Training Skills Level 2 course, or an Education and Training Level 3 Award. For those who are already teaching or training there is a Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training. Our TAQA courses are for those working in Training, Assessing or Quality Assurance. Please click here to view our range of courses.