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Training Portfolio
- Portfolio of Services
- Leadership and Management
- Health and Safety
- Basic Skills
- Information Advice and Guidance
- Train to Gain
Portfolio of Services
We offer specialist advice and guidance in all of the disciplines listed below. Courses are tailored to meet the needs of unemployed people and our business clients. All training is fully flexible to meet customer needs and can be delivered in short sessions, half-day, or full day events.
- Customer Service
- Interview Skills
- Pre-employment Skills
- Health & Safety
- Time Management
- Disabilty Awareness
- Manual Handling
- Functional Skills
- Effective Coaching
- Diversity Awareness
- First Aid
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Enhancing Interpersonal Skills
- Introduction to Supervision and Management
- Hospitality & Catering
- Food Hygiene
- Communication Skills
- Personal License Holder
Interested? Please contact us.
Leadership and Management
NVQs
Management NVQs are aimed at people in management roles across all occupations and sectors of employment.
Level 3
This qualification is aimed at those who are responsible for the control of activities and work output of a team; for first line managers who have decision-making responsibilities within defined limits and wider responsibility for people and their performance. They should also be able to assess their knowledge and understanding of key management activities.
It also gives managers an opportunity to develop their performance to become more effective and progress their own career.
Level 4
The Management Level 4 qualification is aimed at individuals with more personal responsibility and autonomy in their management role than at Level 3 and who have the ability and opportunity to demonstrate recognisable management and leadership skills eg. managing business processes, developing and implementing operational plans, leading, planning and implementing change, managing finance, providing learning opportunities.
Individuals may find that the focus of their work is more to do with managing projects or with technical matters, than with people.
Level 5
The Management Level 5 qualification is intended for managers who are responsible for the control of activities and work-output of other managers and who have the ability and opportunity to demonstrate recognisable management and leadership skills eg. improving organisational performance, providing leadership, encouraging innovation, developing a strategic business plan, managing risk, planning the workforce, managing a programme of complementary projects.
Like all NVQs these qualifications are competence based. This means that they are linked to the candidate's ability to competently perform a range of tasks connected with their work.
Interested? Please contact us.
Health and safety
NVQs
There are three classifications of NVQ in Occupational Health and Safety, each aimed at people involved at different levels and therefore requiring different levels of competence.
Level 1 Certificate in Health and Safety at Work
This course aims to formalise health and safety induction training in the form of a nationally recognised qualification and is accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), at Level 1 in the National Qualifications Framework.
Assessment is via a one-hour examination comprising 40 multiple-choice questions. The pass mark is 26 out of 40.
Level 3
Suitable for those whose role includes the area of general health and safety practice. All such practitioners are involved in the assessment of risks, the identification of hazards and determining strategies for control. There are a number of skills that they would all need and use, such as:
- raising awareness about health and safety within the organisation
- using information to promote good practice
- maintaining and enhancing health and safety systems
- Promoting good relationships to enhance health and safety practice.
Level 4
Suitable for those working in the area of general health and safety practice or, managing the health and safety function.
Both employers and practitioners can use these qualifications to improve health and safety practices within their organisation. The results will be seen in:
- improved organisational image
- safer working conditions
- increased staff motivation and morale
- raised standards of work.
Interested? Please contact us.
Basic Skills
The team at Profound Training are committed to the delivery of the Government's Skills for Life strategy to raise the quality of teaching and learning in adult literacy, numeracy and language (ESOL) provision.
Our programmes aim to help you and your organisation improve learner success through a whole-organisation approach to embedding literacy, language and numeracy training.
Delivery is via a team of quality associates who have a wealth of experience in understanding, developing, and delivering the Skills for Life agenda. More information on this can be found at:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/readwriteplus/
Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) – what it is and why it's important
IAG stands for Information, Advice and Guidance – in itself a shorthand term for a range of vital services that help people to make important decisions about their future – decisions which will ultimately support greater economic and social mobility.
The number of adults who are involved in learning is set to increase dramatically over the next few years and people need access to reliable information, advice and guidance to help them reach all-important decisions about how to:
- develop the best possible range of skills
- find the right training for the right job
- make the most of workplace opportunities
- assess future career options
- get other vital information about issues that affect working life – such as childcare.
As a Provider we are committed to the delivery of IAG and currently provide this service in collaboration with IAG approved providers.
Further information www.lsc.gov.uk.
Train to Gain
Train to Gain is a new service designed to help businesses of all types and sizes get the training they need to succeed. Managed by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) across England, Train to Gain has been developed from the highly successful Employer Training Pilots and uses experienced skills brokers who will work closely with individual businesses to:
- identify the skills the business needs
- pinpoint the right training
- agree a tailored training package
- find available funding
- review progress
As a key training provider, Profound are working with Train to Gain to offer a flexible portfolio of funded and unfunded training packages.
At the heart of our services (as well as our Train to Gain project) is the provision of training and skills advice which is impartial, flexible, responsive, and offered at a time and place to suit businesses.
Our own qualified skills brokers will be more than happy to visit you and undertake a training and business needs analysis should you wish.
Interested? Please contact us.
