* NEW * SCVS Training Programme - Summer Term 2013

Qualification Opportunities at SCVS

PTLLS Level 3 Award: Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector

This qualification sets the minimum standard for all those in or entering the learning and development sector. It introduces the knowledge and skills required by trainers and teachers to develop and deliver programmes, provide learning support and take responsibility in managing the learning process in post-16 education.

Who needs this qualification?

Anyone entering teaching or training roles or already in-service who needs to achieve the minimum threshold status as a teacher within the following:

• Adult and community learning centre

• Work-based learning or training organisation

Why is this training important?

From 2010 anyone who teaches courses that are publicly-funded will have to be qualified. This qualification meets the basic minimum standard for those entering the lifelong learning profession and confers a threshold licence to teach.

Agored Level 3 Award in Community Development

This CDW qualification is accredited by Agored Cymru. The course is designed to provide learners with a sound knowledge of CD values and processes, understanding of skills for group work and awareness of diversity, inequality and injustice issues. Achieving the qualification involves completing 6 written assignments and attending 10 days of training. Completion of this Award enables progression to the Level 3 Certificate in CD – please contact SCVS Training Service for more information.

Planning and Writing Successful Funding Bids

• Review your current approach of developing funding bids
• Tools and techniques for planning, writing and presenting winning bids
• Practice and assess bid writing skills
• Understand and meet the expectations of funders

Date: Monday 20^th May 2013 Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Understanding Good Governance

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

• Understanding the difference between governance and management
• List ways of productively working with the Chief Officer
• List top governance issues for trustees to consider
• Practical exchange of good practice in governance

Date: Tuesday 21^st May 2013 Time: 10.00am - 12.30pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

• Be able to list and apply the Nolan principles
• Understand key roles within a governance group and be able to list the key skills for those roles
• Understand the benefits and practical use of skill audits and equality audits

Date: Tuesday 21^st May 2013 Time: 1.30pm - 4.00pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

Facilitating Participation in Groups

Agored Community Development Award

• Compare and contrast methods of participatory working within groups
• Analyse the factors that help maintain a group's independence or autonomy
• Analyse factors which affect the inclusiveness of community groups
• Examine challenges faced when facilitating groups and ways to overcome them

Date: Wednesday 22^nd May 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Introduction to Marketing Workshop

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

The workshop will break marketing down into specific components, looking at markets, branding, marketing channels and sales. The workshop will include some signposting to other resources and will include several case studies.

• Understand the broad concepts of marketing and how they are applied
• Establish a stronger idea of how to develop your own marketing activities
• Develop a process that you can take away and apply to your own organisation

Date: Monday 3^rd June 2013 Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

Financial Management and Controls

• Understand the concept of financial management and controls
• Be able to implement simple management techniques and controls within your organisation
• Be able to produce appropriate reports for your governing body
• Feel confident in ensuring your organisation works to good practice standards
• Know where to go for further information and support

Date: Tuesday 4^th June 2013 Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

PTLLS Level 3 Award – Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector

• Understand your own role, responsibilities and boundaries of role in relation to teaching
• Understand appropriate teaching and learning approaches within a specialist area
• Demonstrate your session planning skills – plan, deliver, observe and evaluate a micro-teaching session
• Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions that motivate learners
• Understand the use of different assessment methods
• Understand and analyse the need for accurate record keeping and procedures that can be adopted – including internal and external assessment information

Date: Wednesdays 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, 26^th June and 3^rd July 2013 Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm

Cost: £250.00 to participants from third sector organisations who are members of SCVS

British Red Cross Basic First Aid Certificate

Understand the action to be taken and procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency, including: artificial ventilation, CPR, management of an unconscious casualty, recognition of shock, management of bleeding and fractures and treatment of burns.

The course instructor will assess the competence of individual participants throughout the course and certificates will be issued on completion of the necessary tasks. Certificates are valid for three years.

Date: Monday 10^th June 2013 Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm

Cost: £35 to participants from third sector organisations who are members of SCVS

Awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation

• To be able to identify children who are at risk of child sexual exploitation
• Consider the perpetrators of child sexual exploitation
• Understand how to respond to concerns
• Reflect upon the child's needs, wishes and feelings

Date: Tuesday 11^th June 2013 Time: 10.00am - 12.30pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Quality Systems

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

• Understand how to take a strategic approach to quality
• Have an awareness of quality concepts and relevant quality frameworks
• Have started to think about how a quality framework might be used in your organisation
• Have considered how to manage the implementation of their chosen quality framework
• Be familiar with the structure of PQASSO and the steps involved in achieving it
• Have started to look at one quality area from PQASSO

Date: Tuesday 18^th June 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.30pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

Safeguarding Children

• Understand the legislation in relation to Child Protection
• Consider 'best practice' in relation to your responsibility for reporting child abuse
• Identify signs of abuse and how to deal with disclosure
• Examine the essential elements of a Child Protection Policy for your organisation

Date: Monday 24^th June 2013 Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Staff Supervision and Support

• Compare support, supervision and appraisal procedures and purpose
• Discuss and consider good practice in carrying out staff support and supervision
• List the benefits of effective support and supervision for both the individual and the organisation

Date: Tuesday 25^th June 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Safeguarding Adults (POVA)

• Gain an overview of the South Wales Vulnerable Adult Policy
• Have an understanding of legislation in relation to Safeguarding Adults
• Have an understanding of the main categories of abuse and possible signs and symptoms of abuse
• Have an understanding of the procedures to follow if abuse is suspected or disclosed
• Consider 'best practice' in relation to protecting Vulnerable Adults

Date: Monday 1^st July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Results Based Accountability

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

• Find out what Results Based Accountability is all about
• Explore RBA Principles
• Consider how to link your work to the bigger picture
• Fit RBA in with your existing processes
• Identify outcomes, indicators and measures
• Consider data collection and reporting on results

Date: Tuesday 2^nd July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.30pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

British Red Cross Basic First Aid Certificate

Understand the action to be taken and procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency, including: artificial ventilation, CPR, management of an unconscious casualty, recognition of shock, management of bleeding and fractures and treatment of burns.

The course instructor will assess the competence of individual participants throughout the course and certificates will be issued on completion of the necessary tasks. Certificates are valid for three years.

Date: Monday 8^th July 2013 Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm

Cost: £35 to participants from third sector organisations who are members of SCVS

Risk Management

(in partnership with Collaborative Communities)

Charities like all other businesses must review their risks and plan on how they will manage those risks. This course outlines the basic principles and strategies that can be applied to help Charities assess and manage their risks.

Date: Tuesday 9^th July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: FREE of charge to third sector organisations

Managing Conflict

Agored Community Development Award

• Recognise why and when conflict occurs
• Explore the dangers and opportunities in conflict situations and identify the impact of our personal responses to conflict
• Understand the importance of effective communication skills and techniques for behaving assertively
• Develop strategies for successful conflict resolution in groups and organisations

Date: Wednesday 10^th July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Mental Health Awareness

• Explore how stereotypes and stigma impact on working with individuals with mental health difficulties
• Improve understanding of different types of mental health difficulties and how legislation impacts the way we work (including Mental Capacity Act 2005)
• Increase participant's confidence in working with clients that have mental health issues and consider support available from local mental health services

Date: Monday 15^th July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: Free, but a £20 charge will be made for non-attendance

Legal Structures for Voluntary Organisations

• Have an awareness of the range of different options available to third sector organisations
• Understand the pros and cons of different choices
• Be able to make informed choices about their own organisation's structure
• Know where to go for further information and advice

Date: Tuesday 16^th July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 12.30pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Understand what can be measured
• Understand different methods of measurement
• Know how to design a simple monitoring and evaluation system
• Consider good practice in monitoring and evaluation

Date: Wednesday 17^th July 2013 Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Cost: See SCVS course fee structure

Information Commissioners Office Briefing

• Explore areas of good and bad practice in handling personal data
• Take part in practical scenarios
• Understand the implications for your organisation
• Know where to go for further information and advice

Date: Tuesday 23rd July 2013 Time: 9.30 am - 12.15pm

Cost: £5 to third sector organisations