Are you:

• Recently redundant?
• Unemployed?
• Looking for a job?
• Changing careers?

We can help you:

• Develop skills
• Gain qualifications
• Build your confidence
• Brush up your CV and interview skills
• Try new skills to see if you’d like to change career
• Get back into work
• Start your own business

To find out more

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Visit us at one of our Adult Learners Week events across the city

FREE courses for jobseekers

These short courses, designed around the local job market will give you fresh new skills linked to industries which are recruiting right now. They also offer flexibility so that you can fit them around any other commitments and they won’t affect your benefits.

Click on the links below for more information about our courses:

• Care and Childcare

  

• Retail

  

• Business Admin

  

• Security

  

• Hospitality

  

• Construction

  

• IT

  

• Health and Fitness

  

• Volunteering

  

Worried you can’t afford the course?

As well as JSA and ESA, adults receiving a wide range of other benefits may be eligible for free* tuition on many of our courses. You can also apply for help towards childcare and travel from the Learner Support Fund. Find out more.

Increase your skills

We can also help you with CV writing, preparing for interviews, and increasing your confidence, as well as improving your English and Maths.

Find out more:

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Care and Childcare

Introduction to Care

This course will give you an understanding of the job opportunities which are available in the care industry (e.g. hospitals, primary schools and support organisations), and will provide you with the basic skills to get an entry level job in this area.

Caring for Children

This course will give you the skills to communicate effectively with children, and how to plan for the needs of children aged 0-5 years.

Please note: If you would like to have a job in care you will need to take a Criminal Records Bureau check (cost not included).

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Retail

Introduction to Retail

This course will give you an introduction to retail and customer service.

By the end of the course you will be able to carry out routine retail and customer service duties. You will also be confident in understanding health and safety at work, and how to deal with customers effectively.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Business Administration

Introduction to Business Administration

By the end of the course you will be able to carry out routine administrative tasks (such as filing, photocopying and printing), create computer-generated documents and be confident in using the internet.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Security

Introduction to Security (including National Certificate in Door Supervision)

This course will teach you how to work with different customers, how to deal with difficult customers and when /how to use physical intervention.

 

Please note: In order to take the Door Supervision exam you will be required to provide evidence of your identity, and must understand that there will be an element of physical activity as part of the course.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Hospitality

Introduction to Hospitality

This course will introduce you to the hospitality industry, and includes customer service, healthy eating and food sourcing. You will also look at the jobs that are available in this sector.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Construction

Introduction to Construction (including CSCS Health and Safety test)

This course will give you an introduction to working in the construction industry.

It provides support for the CSCS Health and Safety test, and at the end of the course you will be invited to take the test at a local centre. If successful, this will provide you with a certificate showing you are ready to apply for your CSCS card.

Please note: the College does not pay for the CSCS card.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

IT

Information Technology

This course will give you confidence in using the Microsoft Office programs, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. By the end of the course, you will be able to produce professional documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Health and Fitness

Health and Fitness

This course gives you an introduction to the health and fitness industry, and is ideal if you are interested in a job within the sector. It will give you a better understanding of personal health, fitness and nutrition and could help you to gain a job in a gym, fitness centre or in personal training.

 

Courses starting every week.

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Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.

Volunteering

Volunteering

If you are interested in volunteering, or are a volunteer already, this course will help you develop skills for the workplace. Getting some hands-on work experience will help improve your CV, and this course will also help you get the most out of your volunteering, as well allowing you to find out more about different jobs.

 

Courses starting every week.

Call today on 0117 312 2088 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Need more help getting into work?

We also run Employability courses and Work Clubs throughout the city. You can use our computers, search for jobs, and improve your CV. You can also get help with completing job applications and interview preparation.