Work Skills - St Vincent College

WORK SKILLS

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WORK SKILLS At St Vincent College, our experienced education professionals are ready to help you navigate the career path that lies ahead. Whether pursuing your passion for a dream job, looking for a fresh new direction or simply wanting to achieve qualifications to progress in the field you are already in, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to study online, remotely and in person.

LET’S GET LEARNING FEELING READY For some people, returning education for whatever reason requires personal bravery. At St Vincent College, we run a number of courses that help people grow and build upon newly-found confidence which will incorporate: • • •

Confidence Building and Employability Skills CV Writing Interview Techniques

ENGLISH & MATHS Looking to develop your English and Maths skills to enhance your CV, employability prospects or to simply support your children with their homework?

St Vincent College offer a range of courses from accredited GCSE and Functional Skills to our non-accredited, 10 - week introductory courses in both English and Maths.

What’s more, we offer free English and Maths initial assessments to Gosport residents to help identify your current level of English and Maths, followed by an impartial guidance session with a member of our team to discuss your result. You can then enrol onto an appropriate course and start your journey to achievement.

COMMUNITY AND CREATIVE COURSES

St Vincent College offers are variety of taster and introductory courses, which include progression to fully accredited qualifications, in the following subjects: Business Administration Creative Writing Care Work Criminology Customer Service Forensics Teaching Assistant Mental Health and Wellbeing Early Years Psychology Counselling Child Psychology Computer Basics Positive Parenting Employability Skills Reiki

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WORK-BASED LEARNING LEARNING WHILE WORKING/ VOLUNTEERING St Vincent College offers a variety of vocational NVQ qualifications that can help people start out or progress within their careers. Areas include: • • • • • • • •

Teaching/Learning Support Assistants Education & Training/Teacher Training Care Assistants/ Workers Early Years Practitioner Business Management & Administration Customer Service Representative Advice & Guidance Professionals Assessor & Internal Quality Assurer

ONLINE LEARNING Due to the Covid Pandemic, St Vincent College identified the need for students to access learning resources and teaching online, launching new and exciting Level 2 Certificate courses that could be carried out at home with remote assesor/ tutor support.

CARE:

BUSINESS:

Dementia Care Customer Service Prevention & Control of Infection in Health Care Setting Business & Administration End of Life Care Equality & Diversity Nutrition & Health IT User Skills Dignity & Safeguarding in Adult Health & Social Care Care & Management of Diabetes

HIGHER EDUCATION Most of our students study a vocational learning NVQ qualification allowing them to progress onto an ‘Access to University’ course or, in some circumstances, lead to direct entry to university or employment.

WORKING WITH CHILDREN OR IN EDUCATION

Have you always wanted to work with children? Schools, nurseries and education centres are wonderful places to work with lots of variety and huge opportunities.

At St Vincent College we specialise in getting people started with careers in education with full, part-time and foundation degree courses that allow our students to go on to study; • • •

Teacher Training (PGCE) Early Years Care & Education Learning Support

www.stvincent.ac.uk St Vincent College Mill Lane, Gosport Hampshire PO12 4QA workskills@stvincent.ac.uk (023)9258 8311