The following courses are being greatly subsidised by the European Social Fund Skills Support for the Workforce project to all employers in Norfolk and Suffolk with no more than 250 FTE employees.

1 day Emergency First Aid at Work 2/7/14
£10 p.p. full price £75 - places are limited for this date

3 day First Aid at Work - 16/17/18/6/14
£75p.p. full price £189 - places are limited for these dates

1 day BIIAB Personal Licence Holders - 22/7/14
£75p.p. full price £165

All the above courses are at West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds and a maximum 2 learners per company. Both employees and volunteers with a Volunteer Agreement are eligible.

These courses cannot be combined at these prices, but reduced price can be calculated on request.

Later dates are available for:-

Emergency First Aid at Work – subsidised price £10
First Aid at Work – subsidised price £75
Paediatric First Aid – subsidised price £10
Personal Licence Holder – subsidised price £75
CIEH Health and Safety in the Workplace – subsidised price £20
Level 2 Food Safety – subsidised price £15
Level 3 Supervising Food Safety – subsidised price £225

This offer for the above courses will close on 31 October 2014.
All booking must be made and paid for by 30 September 2014.

There will also be IT workshops running throughout the summer in Bury St Edmunds, offering OCR Accredited units in Beginners, Intermediate and Advance Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint. These workshop sessions are ideal for staff and volunteers who wish to improve their skills or learn new ways of completing IT tasks quickly and efficiently. Learners will be able to achieve to units for the price of £25 (project eligibility applies).

Award in L2 Customer Service and World Host

The following dates have been arranged for the two day course offering the Edexcel Award in Customer Service plus the World Host certificate.

24/25 July Bury St Edmunds
7/8 August Ipswich
21/22 August Sudbury

This short course is ideal for any employee or volunteer who has contact with customers (internal and external) and enables the company to display the Worldhost logo on their website and a plaque in their office, if 50% of their customer facing staff achieve the certificate. For employers eligible for Skills Support for the Workforce funding the course price will be £20 per person.

Also offered throughout the term of the project (Until 31 July 2015), all at highly subsidised prices:-

CIEH Intro to Trainer Skills (Train the Trainer)
ILM Awards in: Leadership and Team Skills
Leadership and Management
HR Skills
Volunteer Management
Mentoring
EAL Inspection and Testing
PAT Testing

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