Social Care Courses

Our wide range of social care courses have been designed by experts to give you the tools to improve your skills and career opportunities. There are over 1m people employed in jobs in social care in the UK. Our courses are designed to teach you a variety of skills for you chosen field of social care. Whether your focus is on counselling or crime and the community, you will find one of our social care courses to give you an invaluable introduction to that field and equip you with knowledge to help you to succeed. To find out more about each individual social care course, click on the links below.

Certificate To Introduction To Counselling

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Counselling skills are a great asset for many careers, and they enable you to work almost anywhere there are people. They are currently employed in industry, commerce, the prison service and in all layers of education from primary school to university. About half of all counsellors are employed to do clinical work in health and social care settings. Other career paths can be found in teaching and research for academic bodies.

The Introduction to counselling certificate is fully comprehensive and covers a wide variety of topics such as types of counselling, listening skills, crisis mediation, bereavement, stress problems, depression, eating disorders, alcohol, drug and substance abuse and much more.

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Would you enjoy the challenge of helping other people to achieve their goals? And have you got your own sights set on a varied, rewarding and endlessly fascinating career?

If so, our Diploma training in Life Coaching could be exactly what you’re looking for. On this course you will find out exactly what it takes to be a successful in Life Coaching - one of the UK’s fastest-growing and most exciting new professions.

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People are complex, and if you are a people watcher, or a student of human nature, you'll find the Diploma in Psychology absorbing and fascinating. Psychology is about understanding people, what they think, say and do, and why these things happen. Psychology is the science of mind and behaviour.

The Diploma in Psychology will help you develop an understanding of the nature of psychology, look at the way human actions can be explained on a number of different levels, show how the concerns of psychologists mix, and overlap with, other sciences, distinguish between a physiologist and a psychiatrist, and compare a common sense approach with a psychological approach to problems.

There are over 40,000 students studying psychology each year in the UK at all levels, and in 2004 nearly half of psychology graduates had entered full-time work six months after leaving their course, moving into a wide range of jobs in a variety of sectors.

The Diploma in Psychology introduces many transferable skills such as: communication, numeracy, critical thinking and independent learning. These skills are highly valued by employers. In addition research methodology and statistics covered in the Diploma in Psychology, mean that students are well placed to move into research or numeracy-based careers such as market research, academia and accounting.

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Develop the skills needed for a successful career in the Care Sector.

You may already be working in the care industry, or might be considering a career within it. Whatever your background or experience, this Care Skills course will provide you with the background and knowledge to enable you to work in the care industy.

This Care Skills course will provide you with an understanding of the various skills needed to be effective in a nursing or residential home position, and provide an understanding of the GSCC Code of Practice for Social Care Workers and the responsibilities of the care worker.

You will cover a wide range of areas such as first aid, risk assessment and security in the workplace, effective communication, personal hygiene, and nutritional needs.

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Diploma in Life Criminology

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A Diploma in Criminology could open doors to careers ranging from the police, probation and social services, to the security industry, journalism and many other fields.

The Diploma in Criminology is all about crime and punishment. It is an exciting, multi-disciplinary subject that draws on sociology, psychology and law to examine how crime is defined, why people commit crimes, and how society responds.

Crime is always in the public eye, and with a government elected under the slogan 'tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime', there have never been more opportunities for criminology to contribute to the debate.

The Diploma in Criminology provides a comprehensive guide to criminology and examines in detail a range of criminal activity together with detection and prevention methods in common use.

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