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Are you looking to get back into work?
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Retrain and change careers?
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Upskill to help you secure that promotion you’ve always dreamt of?
We’re here to give you that boost.
Whether it’s a confidence boost, help in finding your career direction or support in achieving your goals and aspirations, we have a raft of options on offer. If you’re aged 19 and over many of our course options are free or have funding options available. We also offer CV writing workshops, mock interviews and can offer impartial careers information, advice and guidance.
We’ll help guide you on to the right path to achieve your goal and ultimately gain employment, find a new job or work your way up that career ladder.
Below are four areas of interest to those aged 19+.
Functional skills and other short courses
Our collection of FREE* Functional Skills courses are useful to anyone, whether in or out of employment. Skills in English, maths and computing are essential for every employee, no matter what their role. Employers who have implemented short English, maths or IT courses to groups of employees have noticed significant improvements to efficiency, team morale, ambition and communication.
If looking for employment, these courses are a fantastic way to bolster a CV and job application to prospective employers.
Our other short courses are another way of bolstering either your CV when looking to apply for a specific career or perhaps you’re a business looking to expand an employee’s skillset. From social media skills to understanding mental health or Autism, take a look at the below course options:
Multiply – Improving your numeracy skills
Multiply is a new government-funded programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills.
If you’re aged 19+, live in Derbyshire and don’t have maths GCSE at grade 4/C (or equivalent), you can access these FREE numeracy courses to build your confidence with numbers and progress towards earning a qualification.
Employability skills to get you into work
The Employability Team work with local employers who are looking to grow their workforce of local people looking for work. Here at Chesterfield College, we will provide you with learning and development opportunities, to support you to gain entry-level qualifications to start your chosen career.
Courses to upskill or retrain
If you are looking to gain essential skills to get into work, upskill or retrain, then take a look at our current course options below:
- Entry Level Personal and Social development
- Level 1 Mental Health Awareness
- Level 1 Stress Awareness
- Level 1 Employability
- Level 1 Customer Service
- Level 1 Logistics Warehousing
- Level 1 Award in Health & Safety Awareness
- Level 1 Health and Social Care
- Level 2 Health and Social Care
- Level 2 Call Centre Operations
- Level 2 Information Advice and Guidance
- Level 2 Support in Schools and Colleges
- Level 2 Safeguarding & Prevent
- Level 2 Cleaning, Knowledge, and Skills
