Working for Third Sector organisations in Leeds
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The Process for Social Workers and Joint Care Managers
This course is for social workers and joint care managers from any sector but primarily for Adult Social Care and Leeds Community Health care staff. You will look at the aims and principles of safeguarding adults in Leeds.
Mental Health & Housing
To acquire skills and knowledge to help you to work effectively with people with mental health problems in accessing and maintaining their housing
Applying for small grants
This course is for any community and voluntary organisation who are preparing funding bids for grants under £10k. Please note it is FREE however you do need to book a place, click title to do so.
Lone Working
This course offers practical solutions for staff facing difficult situations and conflict in their workplace, face to face, over the telephone or working in isolation in their community. 2 places for £99
Fire Safety - Level 2
This will support your Fire Warden with their role and will give you the guidance about the latest legislation
Drugs Awareness
This course will allow you to develop an understanding of drugs and drug use and to facilitate increased confidence in supporting people with drug use issues
Creating Better Flyers and Leaflets
This FREE Community Cascade session looks at the basics of getting your communications right, how to create the best leaflets and flyers and what the most important selling points to include.
Professional Boundaries
This course is for residential workers, supported housing officers, day centre and resettlement workers, volunteers and managers.
Food safety - Level 1
This course will is a half day course in good practice when handling food and does not give an accredited certificate, however it is suitable for occasional food handling and will cover the legalities and compliance.
Finding Funding - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 3)
Step 3 of 6: Finding Funding - where it is and how you apply
Finance for Social Enterprises
A half-day course considering what a social enterprise needs to do to manage its finances and why. Click the title to find out more.....
Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia
This one-day course will examine issues surrounding dementia particularly in relation to supported housing settings. 2 places for £99
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a four hour introductory training course at Level 1 for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Support Planning
This course aims to help managers/staff, with 2 yrs experience within residential housing support/floating support services, develop a strategy for working with clients to produce effective Support plans. 2 places £99.
The Process for Social Workers and Joint Care Managers
This course is for social workers and joint care managers from any sector but primarily for Adult Social Care and Leeds Community Health care staff. You will look at the aims and principles of safeguarding adults in Leeds.
Managing Stress - half day
This introductory course aims to help participants recognise the signs of stress.
Building Confidence
The course is aimed to help you understand confidence and self esteem and how these impact on your clients, and what you can do to support them.
Investigating Disclosures & Allegations
This event is suitable for staff involved in investigation of safeguard alerts or concerns, or those supporting staff who raise safeguarding alerts.
Emergency First Aid
This course will give you a three year accredited certificate in first aid that will be suitable for a voluntary organisation. It is also HSE approved
Health and Safety - Level 2
This is a suitable course for everyone who wishes to learn basic health and safety within a workplace context. You will receive an accredited certificate valid for 3 Years as your workplace Health and Safety Officer.
Spreadsheets for beginners
A full day course about Excel and how this can help you keep basic finance records for your organisation, it is a simple and easy solution to keeping records up to date and in order and you can see if will save you work.
Writing the Investigating Officers Report
This is a multi agency course for professionals, managers and senior staff who are involved with safeguarding vulnerable adults procedures and the investigative report where allegations have been made.
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a four hour introductory training course at Level 1 split over two days, (also attend 22nd Feb) for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST)
A 2 day course for anyone to who may come into contact with a person at risk, in order to raise confidence and knowledge with the most widely used suicide intervention model, attend for both days 22 & 23 February
Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This 2 day course provides an overview of the CBT assessment, formulation and treatment of clients presenting with anxiety and/or depression, attend 22 and 23 February
Developing Supervision Skills
The course will explore what supervision is, what makes it effective and how to improve your skills if you are new to managing people or need an update.
Introduction to developing a volunteer programme
The course will explain our Volunteering Toolkit about how to create and develop a volunteering programme, including managing the volunteers you currently have. This will be held at Volunteer Centre Leeds, in Leeds City Centre.
Safeguarding
This course is suitable for people who are in contact with children, young people or vulnerable adults and want an awareness of their responsibilities.
Successful Funding Applications - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 4)
Step 4 of 6: Successful Funding Applications - how to get it right.
Introduction to Insolvency Options
The course is aimed at generalist advisers/non-money advisers, whose work brings them into contact with clients in multiple debt. It is designed to provide an understanding of the formal insolvency options available to those in this situation.
Business Ideas for Small Businesses
This workshop provides a range of techniques to test and progress ideas for your new business or social enterprise. It is aimed at individuals wanting to set up new businesses and also organisations who wish to develop new trading activities.
Mental Health First Aid
Mental health problems can affect people at any time, this 2 day course - 28th & 29th February 2012 (attend both) is aimed at those wishing to support people with mental health issues
Safeguarding Adults
This course covers regulatory and practical aspects of Adult Safeguarding for people who have contact with vulnerable adults.
Writing a Funding Application
This is a single credit OCN level 2 course, and is intended to give people a sound understanding of how to write funding applications, it runs on two mornings; 29th Feb & 14th March 2012 (you will need to attend both).
Writing the Investigating Officers Report
This is a multi agency course for professionals, managers and senior staff who are involved with safeguarding vulnerable adults procedures and the investigative report where allegations have been made.
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a four hour introductory training course at Level 1 for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Diversity - Level 2
This course provides practical skills for the effective management of issues related to diversity in the workplace.
Measuring Success - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 5)
Step 5 of 6: Measuring Success - looking at monitoring and evaluation techniques to prove the need for your service.
Alcohol and Housing Management
The purpose of the course is to study common problems and issues in providing housing support for alcohol users. This course particularly focuses on housing related aspects. 2 places for £99
Preparing for the Year End
This half day course will give you the knowledge of how to prepare correctly for your year end and produce adequate reports for your organisation.
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a FREE four hour introductory training course at Level 1 for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Risky Situations! - A Beginners Guide to Writing Risk Assessments
How risky are your activities, have you ever looked at the potential sources of harm you may be exposing your users to? If you think you might need to start again when thinking about assessing risk then this course is for you.
Facilitating and Setting Up a Group
This one-day course is aimed at housing and other support staff. The aim of the course is to equip workers with the skills to facilitate groups. 2 places for £99
Writing the Investigating Officers Report
This is a multi agency course for professionals, managers and senior staff who are involved with safeguarding vulnerable adults procedures and the investigative report where allegations have been made.
QAF Level A
This course is designed to give participants the skills and confidence to identify current activity that meets the performance criteria of the redrafted QAF A standard.
Outcomes and Outcomes Monitoring
This course will look at how organisations measure their current outcomes position and look at what successful outcomes for client and providers are.
Food safety - Level 2
This course will cover the principles of food hygiene and you will receive a 3 year accredited certificate for food handlers within your organisation, whether casual or on a regular basis.
Developing a Funding Strategy - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 6)
Step 6 of 6: Developing a Funding Strategy - How to plan your fundraising effectively.
Mental Health Issues
The course will examine the basic issues surrounding work with people experiencing mental distress, who are supported housing residents. 2 places for £99.
Asset Management
This 2 day course on the 8-9 March by Community Matters will address all your needs for guidance and advice on the management of community buildings, incl asset transfer. FREE Places available.
Therapeutic Risk Taking
The aim of this course is to raise awareness and learn skills around therapeutic risk taking.
Early Intervention in Psychosis
To enable participants to understand the importance of early identification and early intervention in psychosis.
An Introduction to Social Enterprise
An introduction to how a social enterprise operates. Aimed at both individuals and organisations, this workshop will help you to decide whether a social enterprise business model is right for you.
Mental Health & Hate Crime
This course explores the issues around hate crime and mental ill health, including prevalence, impact and how to respond appropriately to reports of hate crime.
Introduction to Support Planning
To give participants the skills and knowledge to create effective and meaningful support plans with the people their clients
The Equality Act
What do we mean by equality and diversity and what will the New Act mean for our organisation, this course will equip you with all the information to ensure your organisation is compliant.
Introduction to developing a volunteer programme
The course will explain our Volunteering Toolkit about how to create and develop a volunteering programme, including managing the volunteers you currently have. This will be held at Volunteer Centre Leeds, in Leeds City Centre.
How to register as a Charity
This course will take you through the process on how to complete the necessary documents to register your organisations as a charity. Bursaries available to cover the costs, see course details for more information.
Chairing Skills
To provide a framework for planning and conducting effective meetings in a wide variety of settings
Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS)
CTLLS is the qualification required for teachers/tutors and assessors who work in the lifelong learning sector in an 'associate teaching' role, a 6 month programme running on 20 Apr, 19 May, 15 Jun, 7 Jul and 3 Aug 2012.
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a FREE four hour introductory training course at Level 1 for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Understanding Eating Disorders
The aim of this one day course is to help participants develop an understanding of eating disorders and to increase their confidence and skills in supporting people who have an eating disorder.
Writing the Investigating Officers Report
This is a multi agency course for professionals, managers and senior staff who are involved with safeguarding vulnerable adults procedures and the investigative report where allegations have been made.
Youth Mental Health First Aid
A 2 day course on 22-23 March 2012 (attend both days) is a new national initiative aimed at people working/living with young people (11-18yrs) who may be experiencing mental ill health.
Mental Health First Aid
Mental health problems can affect people at any time, this 2 day course - 26-27 March 2012 (attend both) is aimed at those wishing to support people with mental health issues
Publicity - Writing words that people want to read
We're all constantly bombarded with messages, so how do you make sure that yours get through to your target audience? This FREE Community Cascade course will show you how, funded by the Big Lottery.
Identifying Client Risks and Needs
This introductory course aims to help Housing Support Workers develop questioning and listening skills to identify client needs effectively.
Book keeping for Small Businesses
A half day course aimed at those setting up small businesses and wanting to get the book keeping side of it right. A very practical course which will give you the tools you need.
Finding Funding
A good starting point for anyone looking for funding for their group, you will get to see what free resources are available to help you, click the title for more details on the session. This course is FREE however you do need to book.
Investigating Disclosures & Allegations
This event is suitable for staff involved in investigation of safeguard alerts or concerns, or those supporting staff who raise safeguarding alerts.
Emergency First Aid
This course will give you a three year accredited certificate in first aid that will be suitable for a voluntary organisation. It is also HSE approved.
Food safety - Level 2
This course will cover the principles of food hygiene and you will receive a 3 year accredited certificate for food handlers within your organisation, whether casual or on a regular basis.
Understanding Cannabis
To develop an understanding of the impact of cannabis use and enable staff to work appropriately & effectively with cannabis using clients.
Introduction to Mindfulness
To identify key mindfulness skills used to reduce stress and enhance mental wellbeing
The Process for Social Workers and Joint Care Managers
This course is for social workers and joint care managers from any sector but primarily for Adult Social Care and Leeds Community Health care staff. You will look at the aims and principles of safeguarding adults in Leeds.
Introduction to working together to safeguard children and young people
This is a FREE four hour introductory training course at Level 1 for people who may have the ability to identify levels of vulnerability for children and young people.
Minute Taking
This course will equip you with the knowledge needed to produce accurate, clear and concise minutes and reduce time spent on transcribing and producing typed minutes.
Introduction to developing a volunteer programme
The course will explain our Toolkit and how to create and develop a volunteering programme to support your volunteers, this will be held at our Volunteer Centre on St Pauls St, Leeds City Centre.
The Price is Right - A Guide to Full Cost Recovery
A guide to how full cost recovery works and the system you need to operate to apportion all the core costs incurred by your organisation
How to register as a Charity
This course will take you through the process on how to complete the necessary documents to register your organisations as a charity. Bursaries available to cover the costs, see course details for more information.
Safer Summer Playschemes
If you're planning some holiday activities for children and young people over the summer holidays, and want to be sure you're doing it as safely as possible, then this course is for you.
Data Protection and Confidentiality
This course is designed to help organisations train their volunteers in basic Data Protection and Confidentiality. It is aimed at volunteers, not staff
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)
This is a professional teaching qualification and the course requires your active participation and the completion of coursework assignments, it will run over 4 days 21 April, 11 & 12 May and 16 June 2012.
Awards for All - A complete guide on how to apply
If you are thinking of applying to Awards for All this session will support you with the process of the application forms, click the title for more information....
First Aid - have you got the essentials
A two hour session which will look at the basic first aid skills and how to deal with a situation in any setting. Aimed at community and voluntary groups in Leeds.
Beginners Guide to Benefits Advice
This course is designed for staff/volunteers who have little knowledge of the benefits system and support people as part of their work who need advice. It is suitable to improve your confidence and skills with benefits or as a refresher.
Finding Funding
A good starting point for anyone looking for funding for their group, you will get to see what free resources are available to help you, click the title for more details on the session. There are bursaries available for some groups.
Keeping a Lid on it - working together to improve behaviour
This course is aimed at anyone working with children and young people. It will help you develop skills to deal with disruptive behaviour in a variety of childcare and chjildrens activities settings.
Quickbooks for Beginners
If you are thinking of setting up on Quickbooks, or are starting a role using the system, this course will provide an introduction.
Chairing Skills
To provide a framework for planning and conducting effective meetings in a wide variety of settings
Introduction to developing a volunteer programme
The course will explain our Volunteering Toolkit about how to create and develop a volunteering programme, including managing the volunteers you currently have. This will be held at Feel Good Factor in Chapeltown.
What does the Treasurer do?
Thinking of taking on this role and wanting to know more about it? Wanting to recruit someone to this post? Either way this course will give you clear information about whats involved and ways to undertake it successfully.
How to register as a Charity
This course will take you through the process on how to complete the necessary documents to register your organisations as a charity. Bursaries available to cover the costs, see course details for more information.
Roles and responsibilities of management committee members
This session will give you an insight just what is involved in being a member of a management committee and what you need to do - 2.30pm to 5.00pm.
Roles and responsibilities of management committee members
The session will give you an insight just what is involved in being a member of a management committee and what you need to do - 5.30pm to 8.00pm.
First Aid - have you got the essentials
A two hour session which will look at the basic first aid skills and how to deal with a situation in any setting. Aimed at community and voluntary groups in Leeds.
Safe Recruitment - An introduction
This is an introductory course which will show you the basics to make sure you go through the correct process when recruiting new staff or volunteers and comply with safeguarding legislation.
Train the Trainer / 3 day course
An introductory course to develop training skills, 12-13 & 27 June 2012 inclusive. Will give you confidence to deliver in house sessions to your staff/users, book early and save £10 per place.
HR Policies, Contracts and Variations
This course is aimed specifically at the voluntary sector on what essential documents you need to have in place when employing staff.
Bid Writing for Success
This session is aimed at voluntary and community groups looking to increase their chances of securing grant funding through writing quality bids to larger funders, e.g Big Lottery Fund, large charitable trusts and statutory funders.
Understanding Annual Accounts
This course will help you interpret the Annual Accounts that are produced and help you with future planning. You will be able to understand the accountancy terminology and have a clear picture of the financial health of your organisation.
Introduction to developing a volunteer programme
The course will explain our Volunteering Toolkit about how to create and develop a volunteering programme, including managing the volunteers you currently have. This will be held at Volunteer Centre Leeds, in Leeds City Centre.
Minute Taking
This course will equip you with the knowledge needed to produce accurate, clear and concise minutes and reduce time spent on transcribing and producing typed minutes.
How to register as a Charity
This course will take you through the process on how to complete the necessary documents to register your organisations as a charity. Bursaries available to cover the costs, see course details for more information.
Finding Funding
A good starting point for anyone looking for funding for their group, you will get to see what free resources are available to help you, click the title for more details on the session. There are bursaries available for some groups.
Good Financial Foundations
Having a sound financial process in place protects everybody and ensures that adequate recording is in place so you know where you are with the money. This half day course will support you to get things done in the right way.
Data Protection and how to get it right
This course is looking at how to manage the information you collect and do it well, it will also bring you up to date with the latest legislation so that your organisation does what it is supposed to do.
Disability Equality training
A half day course looking at the new Equalities Act and how this impacts on your organisation in relation to disability.
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