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Certificate for Supported Employment Practitioners

Date: 
05/09/19 to 06/09/19

Venue: Voluntary Action Islington, 200a Pentonville Road London N1 9JP
Dates: 5-6 September; 25-26 November 2019; 20-21 January 2020
Cost: £1500+vat

* 15 places available *

This Level 3 Certificate course is accredited by Gateway Qualifications and we are inviting applications to join the course which is delivered by BASE. You will find general information about the course, including a pdf of the evidence requirements, at http://base-uk.org/cert but please contact us if you have specific queries. To book a place, please email us at admin@base-uk.org quoting the delegate name, invoicing details and a purchase order number.

The certificate is suitable for job coaches, managers of employment support services, work experience coordinators, college staff supporting internships and covers the core values and 5 stages of supported employment.

Learners will have 12 months to complete a portfolio demonstrating how they meet the course evidence requirements. You must be able to have opportunities to meet the evidence requirements to successfully complete the course. We deliver 6 days of training to give the underpinning knowledge and offer extensive support through our assessors. A workplace assesssment and professional discussion will form a part of the assessment process.

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Certificate for Supported Employment Practitioners

Date: 
09/09/19 to 10/09/19

Venue: Shropshire Wildlife Trust, 193 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6AH
Dates: 9-10 September; 18-19 November 2019; 15-16 January 2020
Cost: £1500+vat

* 5 places available *

This Level 3 Certificate course is accredited by Gateway Qualifications and we are inviting applications to join the course which is delivered by BASE. You will find general information about the course, including a pdf of the evidence requirements, at http://base-uk.org/cert but please contact us if you have specific queries. To book a place, please email us at admin@base-uk.org quoting the delegate name, invoicing details and a purchase order number.

The certificate is suitable for job coaches, managers of employment support services, work experience coordinators, college staff supporting internships and covers the core values and 5 stages of supported employment.

Learners will have 12 months to complete a portfolio demonstrating how they meet the course evidence requirements. You must be able to have opportunities to meet the evidence requirements to successfully complete the course. We deliver 6 days of training to give the underpinning knowledge and offer extensive support through our assessors. A workplace assesssment and professional discussion will form a part of the assessment process.

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TSI (Lewisham)

Date: 
29/10/19 to 01/11/19

Venue: Lewisham/Southwark College, London
Cost: £600+vat (BASE members: £550+vat)

* Course now full *

This 3.5 day Training in Systematic Instruction course is delivered in Lewisham on 29 October to 1 November by Mark Kilsby and Julie Allan. Please contact the trainers directly to apply for a place. This course is suitable for staff working in schools, colleges and supported employment services and is essential for anyone offering in-work support. 

Aims:
1. To provide the background, context and values of TSI and how it relates to supported employment;
2. To demonstrate that people with disabilities have a history of failure. and how this can lead to ‘learned helplessness’;
3. To introduce the concept of ‘task analysis’ (TA) as an essential method for preparing to train employment skills for disabled people;
4. Participants will conduct a TA;
5. To present a set of rules for assisting people with learning disabilities to overcome learned helplessness and learn employment tasks quickly and independently;
6. To provide a practical demonstration of the method through a live CCTV training demonstration by one of the presenters with a person with a learning disability on a practical task;
7. Participants will work one-on-one with a person with a learning disability on the model task, which is filmed to provide practical experience of the training techniques;
8. To record the trainee’s learning curves during the practical session and to provide feedback on the participant’s training;
9. To understand a range of alternative methods of presentation available to the trainer according to the trainee’s needs and safety concerns in work;
10. To discuss how TSI fits into the real world and ways for participants to take the approach forward in supported employment.


www.systematicinstruction.com

TSI (Gateshead)

Date: 
09/12/19 to 12/12/19

Location: Gateshead
Cost: £550 (BASE members: £500)

* 5 places available *

Join us for a four day essential course for support staff, Job Coaches, those working in the field of Supported Employment, Post-16 education and independent living.

Participants will:

  • explore their value base and the concept of learned/taught helplessness
  • learn how to break down and analyse a tasks in a range of settings (task and discrepancy analysis)
  • learn teaching strategies effective when teaching those who find it difficult to learn using traditional teaching methods.
  • opportunities to practice skills learned with assistance from people with learning disabilities.
  • have access to two experienced trainers and who have practiced TSI for over 25 years in a range of settings, making TSI "real" and not just theoretical.

To book, email: turnitaroundtraining@hotmail.co.uk or phone Alison on 07862264338

Commissioned courses

We are available for services to commission courses for their staff teams. It may be possible to arrange for additional delegate places to be made openly available if you don't have sufficient numbers for a dedicated course. Courses are available in:

  • Training in Systematic Instruction (TSI)
  • Job Coach training
  • Recruiting and retaining a Diverse Workforce
  • Marketing your Service for Individual Budgets
  • Working with Employers

Click here for further details of our training services.
For further details, contact Huw Davies on 01204 880733 or at admin@base-uk.org

Associate Trainers

BASE also works with a range of freelance trainers who deliver training on a variety of topics including TSI, Job retention case management. Click here to view details of their training programmes. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming an associate of BASE.