The Certificate is suitable for job coaches and specialist employment support staff within Supported Employment services, providers of employment programmes, further education colleges, NHS Trusts and social enterprises. Learners must be supporting a jobseeker to secure employment and must have opportunities to demonstrate the required evidence through engagement with employers and jobseekers.

The course normally involves group sessions organised over 4 blocks of 2 days and currently, the training is delivered online using Zoom across 8 sessions .

Participants will need to complete a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate how they have applied the underpinning knowledge and skills listed in the National Occupational Standards for Supported Employment. Many of the learning outcomes will require assessment in the workplace so all learners must be able to demonstrate their practice with jobseekers and employers. The group sessions will be delivered over a 6 month period and participants are expected to complete their portfolios within 12 months. This may be extended to 24 months on payment of an additional fee of £200+vat.

The course is organised around six individual units. You can find details of what they contain on the course specification attached below.

The cost per learner is £1500+vat for BASE members and £1800+vat for non-members. This covers all costs including learner registration, group sessions, individual tutorial, observed practice, assessment and verification, and certification. It does not include any travel or residential accommodation costs.

Learners who have fully completed the Supported Employment Techniques course can convert to the Level 3 Certificate at a reduced cost of £1000+vat for BASE members and £1200+vat for non-members.

Voluntary sector members of BASE with an annual income of less than £350,000 may apply for a heavily subsidised place on the course. Full details are available at www.base-uk.org/funded-training.

All our courses are delivered online using Zoom.

Normally, we can deliver a course wherever we have a minimum of 10 participants. The exact venues will depend on the location of the participants involved as we want to minimise the need for travel.

Future courses are listed on our training courses page but we anticipate regular online courses to run this year.

The courses are delivered by our associates, Kathy Melling, Liz Mellor and Holly Kelleher who are experienced supported employment practitioners with extensive experience of managing high quality services.