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Qualifications & Training 

Qualifications

  • COSCA Counselling Skills Certificate (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland) Diploma

  • Higher National Certificate Social Care

  • Higher National Certificate Administration & Information Skills 

  • National Certificate Administration 

  • College Certificate Incorporating National Certificate Administration & Information Skills 

  • ECDL Advanced Word Processing 

  • College Certificate Counselling Skills - An Introduction (30 hours)

  • SVQ Professional Qualification Hairdressing

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Most up to date Training (completed 2024)

  • Bereavement Awareness

  • Professional and Personal Boundaries in Care Settings Course

  • The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

  • Use of Expressive Writing to Combat Mental & Physical Health Problems 

  • Working with Insomnia 

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Additional Training

  • An Introduction to GIRFEC

  • Acquired Brain Injury Awareness

  • Administration of Medication

  • Adult Protection Refresher

  • Adult Safeguarding Protection 

  • Advanced Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling

  • Alcohol Brief Intervention 

  • An introduction to Equality and Diversity

  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

  • Autism Reality Experience 

  • Basic Fire Fighting Skills

  • Basic First Aid at Work

  • Bereavement Awareness

  • CALM - Crisis, Aggression, Limitation and Management

  • Care First Training

  • Carista, CareFirst, Careplanner  & Clog Information Management System

  • Child Protection

  • Choose Life Suicide Prevention Training

  • Core Values

  • Coronavirus Pandemic Awareness 

  • Covid 19 Lateral Flow Self-Testing

  • Covid 19 PCR Self-Testing

  • Cruise Bereavement 

       - Compassionate Conversations

       - Grief & Loss and understanding

       - Wellbeing when working with grief, distress         and trauma

  • Data Protection 

  • Dementia Awareness Online

  • Display Screen Equipment 

  • Duty of Candour

  • Dyslexia Training

  • Emergency First Aid at Work

  • Epilepsy Awareness Workshop

  • Equality & Diversity

Training cont...

  • Fire awareness

  • Fire Safety

  • Fire Warden Training

  • First Aid Training

  • Food Safety

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  • Hazardous Substances COSHH

  • Health & Safety 

  • Health & Safety Induction 

  • Homeworking

  • Infection Control

  • Infection Control for Office Workers  Covid-19

  • Inspiring Breaks Toolkit

  • Introducing Positive Approaches to Behaviour

  • Introduction to Autism

  • Introduction to Fire Safety

  • Introduction to Health & Safety

  • Introduction to Risk Assessment Introduction to Environment Awareness

  • Legal Considerations

  • ​Lone Working

  • Motivating, Retaining and Supervising Volunteers

  • Motivational Interviewing 

  • Motivational Interviewing in Brief Conversations 

  • Moving & Handling 

  • Navigating Through Covid-19

  • NESS Visual & Hearing 

  • NHS Diversity NHS Sexplanation

  • NHS HIV Hep B Hep C (Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses)

  • Online and Telephone Counselling Course

  • Online Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

  • Outcomes STAR

  • Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone

  • Pandemic Procedures

  • Professional and Personal Boundaries in Care Settings Course

  • Protection of Vulnerable People

  • Safeguarding Adults Level 3

  • Safeguarding (Scotland) 

  • Safer Handling of People Theory

  • Scottish Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA)

  • Self-Harm Awareness

  • Sensory Awareness Training

  • Social Media Policy

  • Stress Essentials 

  • Suicide Alertness For Everyone (SafeTALK)

  • System CALM Level 3

  • The Case Formulation Approach to CBT

  • The Emotional Mix of 'Normality?' Workshop (SCCR)

  • Understanding Perinatal Mood Disorder Online Training

  • Untangling the Knots (SCCR)

  • Use of expressive writing to combat mental & physical health problems 

  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)

  • Working with Insomnia 

  • Workshop Facilitation 

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