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Title: Look Ahead Housing and Care


1
Look Ahead Housing and Care
  • Links with local colleges and accredited
    training.
  • Petria Aylen Skills Development Manager
    Aldgate Hostel
  • Mitzi Rampersad Partnership Manager, Tower
    hamlets College

2
Tower Hamlets College, CPCAB and AQA
  • What they do for us
  • How it started
  • Benefits for us and them
  • Tips for other providers
  • Getting registered as a centre
  • Costs

3
What Tower Hamlets College did for us
  • Ran an 8 week Manicure Course
  • Students learnt nail art, manicure, hand massage,
    ear piercing, health and safety, French polishing
  • Provided all the equipment
  • Provided advice on further education and training
  • Took students to college to see facilities and
    experience life in a real college
  • Are now providing follow-up advice

4
How it started
  • Resident consultation
  • Research into courses
  • Staff member had a link with the college
  • Contacted Mitzi
  • Met with College
  • College came back with proposal
  • Decided on course structure, content and agreed
    costs
  • Risk assessment

5
Benefits for us and them
  • Professional body running training
  • Improved links with community resources
  • Women learning to do their own nails and others
  • New career path and recognising hidden talents
  • Improved confidence
  • Structure
  • Social and relaxed setting
  • Improved social skills

6
Tips for other providers - Mitzi
  • Get to know your local college
  • College structures Partnership Manager
  • Fit with College priorities, progression,
    responsiveness, inclusion, hard to reach
    learners, employability agenda
  • Involvement with programme design
  • Full cost recovery concept
  • Practical arrangements, eg travel, training
    room, refreshments, risk assessments
  • Early and continuing feedback
  • Certification noting and celebrating achievement
  • Progression advice and guidance
  • Colleges are funded by the Learning Skills
    Council LSC

7
What is CPCAB?
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding
    Body
  • UK Awarding body that is managed by counselling
    practitioners, trainers and supervisors.
  • Only awarding body specialising in counselling
  • 130 recognised training centres across UK
  • Approved by Qualifications and Curriculum
    Authority (QCA)
  • Offer Vocationally recognised Qualifications
    (VRQs)

8
How and why
  • Trainer running courses for Look Ahead
  • Wanted to give residents and staff the
    opportunity to train together
  • Dont usually run in house training that is
    recognised
  • Course suitable for all staff
  • Suitably priced

9
What we ran
  • Level 2 in Effective Listening skills
  • 15 hours of learning
  • Outcomes include
  • Improve relationships with workplace teams
  • Improved communication skills
  • Enhance personal relationships
  • Improved listening skills
  • Better equipped to assist people with their
    problems
  • Good first step in becoming a counsellor, support
    worker or psychotherapist

10
Benefits for staff and residents
  • Breaking down barriers as staff and residents
    train together
  • Improved confidence
  • Recognised qualification for CV
  • Improved ways of working
  • Very related to job and skills can also be used
    outside of work
  • Improved employment prospects
  • Raises profile of project

11
Registering as a centre
  • Is there a need for training?
  • Enough resources?
  • Funding available?
  • Call CPCAB
  • Complete a form to register as a centre
  • Register trainees
  • Deliver the course, assess trainees portfolios
  • Independent verification
  • Report given and certificates distributed

12
Costs
  • 79 to register centre
  • 33 per student which includes all paperwork
  • Tutor fees approx 1050.00

13
What is the Unit Award Scheme?
  • A scheme designed to give students formal
    recognition of their success in short units of
    work in a wide variety of subject areas
  • Students have clear targets for each unit
  • Full approved by QCA nationally recognised
  • Providers can write their own units tailored to
    their project
  • Any ability or age
  • Externally assessed

14
Benefits for residents and providers
  • Incentive to participate
  • Recognising what we already do
  • Great for staff development
  • Good first step back into employment or further
    training
  • Clear, short term achievable targets
  • Raises profile of project

15
Registering as a centre
  • Contact AQA
  • Complete registration form
  • Attend INSET training day
  • Assessor to visit site
  • References required
  • Site registered
  • Use existing units or start writing own

16
ANY QUESTIONS???????
  • www.aqa.org.uk/qual/uas.php
  • www.lsc.gov.uk
  • www.cpcab.org.uk
  • www.tower.ac.uk
  • petriaaylen_at_lookahead.org.uk
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