Basic & Employability Skills
This flexible programme is tailored to
the individual to enhance employment skills and improve literacy,
language and numeracy skills; all the skills an employer
values.
Target group:
Unemployed, Employed but not educated. Not in Employment,
Education or Training group
Benefits to employers:
- understanding of the workplace and the employee's
responsibilities, for example time-keeping, appearance, customer
care;
- self-evaluation skills;
- positive attitude to learning;
- flexible approaches to solving problems;
- adaptability and positive attitude to change; and
- confidence to set goals, reflect and learn from
experience.
Literacy & Numeracy: Entry level 1, 2 & 3 &
Level 1 & 2 accredited by City & Guilds.
Adult Literacy aims to develop skills, knowledge and
understanding in the following areas:
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking & listening
Adult Numeracy aims to develop skills, knowledge and
understanding in the following areas:
- Numbers & fractions
- Using data
- Multiplication & subtraction
- Measurement & shapes
- Time
ASDAN Employability Award Entry 3 & Level 1-3 accredited by
ASDAN includes:
- Planning & reviewing learning
- Maintaining work standards
- Communicating with others at work
- Introduction to working with others
- Applying for a job
- Tackling problems
- Tackling number problems
- Exploring job opportunities
- Rights and responsibilities at work