Look Ahead Housing and Care

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Costs

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

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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

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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

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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

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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