Training

Information about training events can be posted on this page - contact BASE for details.

DDA and Employment Law course

Venue: Camden Society, 60 Holmes Road, London NW5 3AQ
Date: 24 March 2010
Cost: £100 +vat (members); £125 +vat (non-members)
This course aims to support practitioners to understand disability legislation and employment law. Delegates will learn how to deal with issues associated with dismissal, disciplinaries, capability procedures and harassment issues.
Brochure and booking form ¦ Terms and conditions

Employer Engagement training course

Date: 30-31 March 2010
Venue: Park Inn, Leigh, Greater Manchester
A 2 day training workshop designed for all organisations whose success relies upon the effective engagement and involvement of employers. This course is suitable for:

  • Employment Officers who are arranging work tasters, work experience places, paid employment
  • Service managers and Team Leaders who wish to gain better insight into employer engagement within service development
  • Training and development leads within FE colleges, Connexions and work-based learning providers

The course is designed to allow participants to:

  • build personal confidence
  • understand the employers perspective
  • develop long term relationships with companies
  • address employer concerns
  • learn a range of suitable marketing techniques

Brochure and booking form ¦ Terms and conditions

BASE delivers courses around the country but individual services can commission this training by contacting Fred Bowen on 01204 880733 or at fred.bowen@base-uk.org

Marketing your Service for Individual Budgets

31 March 2010 - Trafford Town Hall, Manchester M32 0TH
6 May 2010 - County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL
This course aims to give providers a good understanding of self-directed support and to improve the ability of supported employment services to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the use of individual budgets to purchase support.

Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce

This course provides the opportunity for HR managers with a responsibility for recruitment and retention to participate in a workshop that identifies the barriers that people face to gaining employment coupled with the challenge that many employers face when recruiting or retaining employees with a disability. The course concentrates on raising awareness of the support that is available across the UK and the benefits of recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Recruitment methods, practices, policies and procedures come under the spotlight for open discussion on what works and what doesn’t and how making a reasonable adjustment, in most cases at low or no cost, can be all that is required to make a difference to those facing real barriers to gaining meaningful paid employment.

For further details, contact Fred Bowen on 01204 880733 or at fred.bowen@base-uk.org

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)
  • The Disability Discrimination Act and Employment Law
  • Marketing your Service for Individual Budgets

For further details, contact Fred Bowen on 01204 880733 or at fred.bowen@base-uk.org

Structured Training Techniques

Alan Morgan and Dr Mark Kilsby are offering a 5-day workshop in Structured Training Techniques. The workshop draws upon the work of Dr Thomas Bellamy and Dr Marc Gold, two of the main pioneers of supported employment in the early 1980s. It also draws on their own combined experience of over 40 years in the field of supported employment. More...

Foundation in Supported Employment (OCN accredited)

This a 4-day course covering the essential skills and processes of delivering quality supported employment and is suitable for teams working with people with learning disabilities or mental health issues.

  • For embryonic services - gain skills and paperwork, and avoid re-inventing wheels and predictable pitfalls
  • For established teams - get new staff quickly productive, refresh experienced staff, and build capacity

MODULE 1: THE JOBSEEKER - ASSESSMENT & COLLABORATION
Including the referral process, Vocational Profiling and managing the wages & benefits challenge

MODULE 2: THE JOB - TAILORED JOBSEARCH & NEGOTIATION
Including strong promotional materials, making that first phone call, clear structure to your presentations, handling objections, job carving and job matching, effective paperwork, legal context

MODULE 3: TRAINING - FOR INCLUSION, SKILLS & INDEPENDENCE
Including analysis of the job and the workplace for sustainable jobmatches, one-to-one training strategies, avoiding dependency, useful action planning and collaboration with ‘natural supports’.

Individuals are invited to join proposed courses in SUSSEX, LINCOLNSHIRE, LONDON and YORKSHIRE or commission your own training for your team. Contact Ruth Twine on 07760 37146 or at ruth@waddington.net

Surrey@Work

Details of the Surrey Supported Employment training programme for Autumn/Winter 2009. Brochure ¦ Booking form

BASE is able to offer a range of consultancy services. We are happy to discuss your particular service training requirements and where possible we will endeavour to tailor products to your needs.