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accredited training

The following courses are nationally recognised accredited qualifications aimed at both personal and professional development. These courses can be delivered to your organisation by a member of our network of qualified and experienced tutors. Alternatively, we run regular public courses throughout the year at adult friendly venues. Check our Whats On section for our latest programmes.

• ABC Awards Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Concepts
• NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory
• NCFE Level 1 Drug Awareness

• NCFE Level 2 Helping Skills course for this year
• Springboard Development Programme from October 2009
• Certificate in Relationship Counselling coming soon

Discounts may be offered on groups consisting of more than six candidates.

• ABC Awards Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Concepts

Target groups: This is an open access course which is suitable for those:
• Returning to study
• Seeking a career change
• Undertaking voluntary work
• Enhancing career prospects
• Thinking of training as a professional counsellor

Course aim: To enhance and improve the communication skills of participants and develop empathy - the ability to listen and respect silence.

Course content:
– An appreciation of the basics of counselling - professional contexts and relationships.
– An introduction to the skills used by counsellors.
– An introduction to personal development.

Course duration: 30 guided learning hours. Can be delivered as 10, three hour sessions or 5 full days training (6 hours per day).

For further information on this course and other ABC awards please click on the logo.

To enquire about this course click here

• NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory

Target groups: This qualification will be useful for those seeking to enhance their functional role by the use of counselling skills (for example, health and social workers, teachers etc). It will also be of use to those wishing to consolidate their skills and knowledge in a counselling context.

Course aim: This qualification aims to develop candidates' counselling skills to a safe level of practice, provide an introduction to essential counselling theory and raise awareness of professional issues for the developing practitioner. It also aims to provide a safe environment for personal development and promote the practice of equal opportunities.

Course content:
– Acquire, develop and practise counselling skills
– Understand essential counselling theory
– Understand professional issues
– Develop self

Course duration: 80 guided learning hours. Will be delivered as 20, three and half hour sessions and two full day (6 hours) workshops.

Click for NCFE Level 3 Prospectus.
Click for NCFE Level 3 Enquiry Letter.
Click for NCFE Level 3 Application Referee Letter.
Click for NCFE Level 3 Application Form.

To enquire about this course click here

For further information on this course and other NCFE courses please click on the logo.

• NCFE Level 1 Drug Awareness

Target groups: This qualification is appropriate for the widest possible range of people, from school and college students to those with an interest in raising their own understanding of drugs in our society.

Course aim: This qualification aims to provide a nationally recognised qualification in drug awareness at an introductory level. To introduce quality control and measurable standards in basic drug awareness education, and to provide an accessible and flexible learning opportunity for a wide range of individuals. The qualification has been signposted against the Drug and Alcohol National Occupational Standards (DANOS).

Course content: Develop an awareness of drug use

Course duration: 9 guided learning hours. Can be delivered as 3, three hour sessions or two short days training (4.5 hours per day).

For further information on this course and other NCFE courses please click on the logo.

• NCFE Level 2 Helping Skills

course for this year

Target groups: An open access national qualification for anyone who uses (or would like to use) helping skills as part of their work. This programme complements other training courses in health and social care, childrenÕs care, learning and development, voluntary and community care Ð whether you are currently studying or already achieved qualifications in these areas.

Course aim: A short part-time course aiming to improve and develop helping and communication skills.

Course content:

Develop self-awareness for the helping relationship
– Develop listening and communication skills for the helping relationship
– Managing the helping relationship

Course duration: 45 hours. Can be delivered as 12. 3.5 hour sessions or six, 6 hour sessions.

For further information on this course and other NCFE courses please click on the logo.

• Springboard Development Programme

2 new programmes for 2010

Click here for further information and application form.

Springboard is a development programme that aims to empower women to set and achieve work and personal goals, helping them:
• Establish what they want from life and career
• Focus on their priorities
• Set themselves on a journey to acquire the ideas, skills and confidence needed to reach their full potential and achieve their goals
• Position themselves to make positive decisions about their work and personal options
• Take action

Course aim: Springboard is for all women; whether working full time, part time, job sharing or unwaged, just starting out, approaching retirement, within large or small organisations, self employed or freelance. Springboard is suitable for women of any age, background or stage of their life or career. You set your own development agenda and you don't need any qualifications to take part, simply the interest and desire to take a fresh look at yourself and put some time and energy into developing yourself and your life.

Course content:
– What you've got going for you
– Setting goals
– Finding support
– More energy, less anxiety
– Making things happen
– Assertiveness
– Networking
– How to get noticed and acknowledged
– Blowing your own trumpet
– Finding time for you
– Balancing home and work
– Celebrate success

Springboard utilises 5 key ingredients:
• 300 page lively and practical workbook which women work through in their own time
• 4 highly interactive one day workshops held over 3 months
• Coaching groups - a support network
• Development of a wide contact network
• Practical role models to inspire participants

How to experience Springboard:

The largest source of untapped potential in many organisations is their women who tend to be concentrated in lower grades. This course is designed to motivate women and give them the self-confidence to influence and manage their careers more successfully. A lot of focus is given to identifying and improving existing skills, which can result in more effective working.

Another key benefit is that many women feel more confident about making the transition to higher grades though promotion. Even if they do not wish to progress they can make a more effective contribution to the success of the business thought the development of assertiveness, confidence and improved motivation impacting upon relations with customers and colleagues alike.

Springboard is usually run inside organisations so if it's not being run in your workplace contact your HR or training department and put them in touch with us so that we can come along and run a course for you. However, thanks to Big Lottery support we are able to run a series of open workshops in the Bolton area throughout 2009/2010 - offering a limited number of free and subsidised places to women in voluntary, third and statutory sector posts. For further details of these sponsored workshops please check the Whats On page or look for via the training pages on the Bolton CVS website.

Alternatively, if you are motivated and organised you can get together with a group of other women and we can come along to deliver a programme especially for you. You will probably need 10 to 15 women to make this viable but you could reduce costs by hosting it at one of your homes and doing your own catering! Please feel free to contact us at any time for an informal chat about any of your ideas around how you can experience Springboard.

If you are an HR, diversity, equal opportunities or training manager and would like to help your women make more of their career and deliver measurable benefits for your organisation then please contact us for an informal chat. We are happy to arrange a visit to find out more about your organisation and how we could help you get more from and give more to your women.

Comments from previous Springboard participants:

"I've found confidence at work I didn't know I possessed."
"I have enjoyed the course so much I wish I'd done it years ago."
"The best course I have ever attended."
"To have felt this inspired and supported has been totally addictive."
"Every woman should go on this programme."
"A month after finishing the programme I was promoted. Coincidence? I don't think so!"

• Certificate in Relationship Counselling Currently under development
An Open College Network accredited course in association with Relate - Greater Manchester North

Target groups: Post qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, health care workers, social service personnel, who wish to develop their existing therapeutic skills in relationship counselling.

Proposed course content:
– Understanding the relationship 'fit'
– Applying systemic theories to couples
– Understanding the impact of life stages and attachment and loss issues on couples
– Understanding the impact of separation and divorce on the individual, couple and family.
– Understanding human sexuality.
– The practicalities, ethics and legalities of organisational settings.
– The reflective practitioner - producing a case study.

Proposed Duration: 60 guided learning hours and 40 hours of relevant clinical practice, logged and supervised, over a six month period.

To register your interest in this course, please contact Joyce Siddall at Relate- Greater Manchester North on 0161 764 4299

Here's what our adult learners say about training with SALSA
(excerpts taken from student course evaluation sheets for accredited programmes, 2007)

"I am enjoying the course ... I find it all very excellent and enjoyable."
"Classes are very enjoyable, stimulating and interesting."
"Loving every minute of it. I feel I have learned a lot about myself."
"Fantastic! The course itself is most interesting."
"I cannot find fault with tutor input, I understand everything."
"Very positive all round experience."
"Very well prepared and presented. Stimulating and informative."
"Excellent with plenty of support and good handouts."
"Enjoyed the group activities and individual activities. Left with a positive feeling."
"Salsa is a fantastic place for training. The atmosphere is amazing."
"The tutors are obviously the 'best of the best' and I feel very priviledged to be part of this course."
"The programme got me thinking and tutor input helped me to understand things better."

Here's what our external moderators say about SALSA's training courses
(excerpts taken with permission from external moderation reports for counselling training programmes, 2007)

• The tutor / internal moderator team are very experienced and well qualified in regard to counselling and teaching.
• The tutors are notably enthusiastic and hard working.
• Students receive a comprehensive and well presented course booklet - giving clear information about course content and assessment, and a range of other relevant topics.
• Anti-discriminatory practice is a key theme for this centre and is reflected in all course content and overall provision.
• Physical resources are very good, the students having the run of a well equipped and roomy teaching area.