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  • Health and Social Care Level 2 Apprenticeship

    Adult Care Worker

    Providing frontline care for vulnerable adults to within their own homes, day care centres, residential and nursing homes and other healthcare settings.

    Location: Workplace

    Start Date: N/A

    Duration: 12 months

  • Health and Social Care Level 2 Apprenticeship

    Adult Care Worker

    Throughout this apprenticeship, apprentices will learn the below: - adult care practices, principles and standards - including care planning, duty of care, professional boundaries and individual dignity and respect - supporting individual physical and mental well-being to help people live as independently as possible - including individual control and choice and person centred care - safeguarding - including addressing personal rights and safety, dealing with abuse, comments and complaints and whistleblowing - communication skills - including active listening, showing empathy and verbal, non-verbal and written communication - health and safety practices and standards within a care - environment - including dealing with accidents, fire safety, hazardous substances and infection control

    Location: Employers premises

    Start Date: on-going

    Duration: 12 months

  • Health and Social Care Level 2 Apprenticeship

    Adult Care Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship

    Learners will be educated to improve their skills and knowledge so they can help to support individuals physicall and mentally. They will also further their knowledge in safeguarding, communication skills aswell as the importance of health and safety.
    Stepping Stones will support the individuals throughout the qualification to improve their knowledge on all the equipment and medication

    Location: Workplace

    Start Date: Various

    Duration: 24 Months

  • Health and Social Care Level Intermediate Mental Health First Aider

    Adult Mental Health First Aid

    Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a training course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue. You’ll learn to recognise warning signs of mental ill health, and develop the skills and confidence to approach and support someone while keeping yourself safe. What’s more, you’ll gain an understanding of how to support positive well being and tackle stigma in the world around you.

    Location: Stoke-on-Trent

    Start Date: 01/01/2020

    Duration: 2 Days

  • Service Enterprises Level 3 Advanced & Creative Hair Professional level 3 Apprenticeship Standard

    Advanced & Creative Hair Professional

    Advanced and Creative Hair Professionals are creative, passionate, and driven professionals who work without supervision, managing themselves and others when required. They provide a quality service, whilst working to the highest standards and continuously developing their personal and professional skills. An Advanced and Creative Hair Professional works in the hair industry, which is one of the largest, most trusted and fashion forward professions. They take ownership of their work and client lists, accept responsibility, are proactive, flexible and adaptable, plan their work and time, they aim for excellence by taking exceptional pride in their work and industry. The work environment can be varied in size, style and ambiance, from a bespoke salon, the media industry, cruise ships, product houses and manufacturers to luxury high-end hair salon. They are highly skilled and experienced individual professionals who deliver hair fashion forward trends, which are innovative styles inspired by current images and their own creativity, individual flair, imagination and interpretation. You will learn how to: Creatively restyle hair using a combination of techniques Creatively style and dress hair Creative hair colour correction services Provide client consultation service Smoothing and strengthening systems Use fashion forward trends in hair to create a collection of hairstyle look

    Location: Leek or Buxton Campus for college attendance. You will also have in work opportunities.

    Start Date: Flexible throughout the year.

    Duration: 12-24 Months

  • Building and Construction Level 3 Advanced Carpentry & Joinery Site or Bench level 3 Apprenticeship standard

    Advanced Carpentry & Joinery level 3

    The occupation involves carrying out advanced skilled work, primarily using timber products, either on a construction site, or in a workshop, creating and installing building components. The advanced carpenter and joiner is able to undertake complex job tasks, requiring high levels of practical skills and knowledge, in addition to managing their own work and leading small teams.The main differences between a level 2 site carpenter / architectural joiner, and a level 3 advanced site carpenter / architectural joiner are that the advanced carpenter / joiner has responsibility for managing their own and other people’s work, as well as being required to complete complex and non-standard work. This is a core and options apprenticeship, with two pathways: Pathway 1: An Advanced Site Carpenter will normally work on a building site, or in domestic and commercial premises, preparing and installing complex and often bespoke building components e.g. high quality doors, shaped linings, staircases with turns, complex wall and floor units, erecting bespoke structural carpentry (inclined roofs and joists) and erecting complex roof structures (e.g. inclined roofs with hips, valleys and dormers). Pathway 2: An Advanced Architectural Joiner will normally be employed in a workshop, producing complex building components by setting out, marking out and manufacturing bespoke architectural products (e.g. doors, windows, staircases with turns and panelling/cladding).

    Location: Workbased qualification with attendance to our Leek Campus

    Start Date: Flexible throughout the year.

    Duration: 18 Months

  • ICT for Users Level N/A Short course

    Advanced Microsoft Excel

    This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn the more advanced uses of Excel and has some basic knowledge of this application. This course will provide further tools to complete more difficult tasks and reduce time in their completion. The course will include: - Key elements from introductory excel course - Cell naming - Database functions - Sorting spreadsheets and subtotals - Pivot tables (cross tab views) - Recording and editing macros - Creating and using spreadsheet templates - Recording macros and getting to know Visual Basic programming language - Creating validation lists

    Location: Held at our Cannock, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Newcastle-Under-Lyme centres

    Start Date: Contact us for details

    Duration: 1 day

  • Manufacturing Technologies Level N/A Short Course

    Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

    To develop delegates to the product quality planning cycle by up-front planning and then implementation. ? Delegates will realise the benefits of cross-functional teams and the effects they have on customer satisfaction. ? Understand the objectives and phases of APQP ? Understand the interaction between the customer and supplier during APQP ? Build confidence in completing APQP activities in your work place

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  • Manufacturing Technologies Level 3 Short Course

    Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

    A 'gated' approach to introducing new product.

    Location: Company Venue

    Start Date:

    Duration: 1 day

  • Sport, Leisure and Recreation Level N/A

    Adventure Sports

    Modules to be studied Fitness testing and training Outdoor and adventurous activities Development of personal fitness Expedition experience A typical working week will comprise of a blend of classroom and practical sessions. You will have many opportunities to develop your practical skills using our extensive sport facilities and on the estate at Rodbaston. There will be time for tutorials and Functional Skills sessions in Maths and English. Opportunities will also be provided for you to develop your industrial work awareness skills.

    Location: Rodbaston

    Start Date: Various

    Duration: 20 weeks