All of the courses below will be held at JanRo Training, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. For more information or to book your place please call us on: 01685 872385
Emergency First Aid
Wednesday 13th May
8375: Essential Skills Practitioners
Friday 15th May
Health and Safety Level 2
Wednesday 20th May
TAQA Level 4
Wednesday 20th and Wednesday 27th May
Basic Food Hygiene Level 2
Thursday 21st May
Manual Handling Level 2
Wednesday 27th May
HACCP Level 2 Thursday 28th May
Allergen Awareness Level 3
Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd June
Basic Food Hygiene Level 2
Wednesday 3rd June
Basic Food Hygiene Level 3 Monday 8th and Tuesday 8th June
On 15th May we are running the 8375 Essential Skills Practitioners Course at the JanRo office.
The 8375 Essential Skills Practitioners Course develops your skills based on current teaching practice and helps you build on your knowledge as an essential skills practitioner.
The qualification is perfect for those who deliver literacy, numeracy, ESOL, and digital literacy at Level 1 or below and want to have a recognised qualification to work as an essential skills practitioner.
Attaining the esteemed 8375 Essential Skills Practitioners qualification opens up a range of career opportunities in teaching and training.
For more information on the course or to book your place, call us on 01685 872385.
Level 3 Award in Education and Training (formerly called PTLLS)- 19/05/2015
Health and Safety Level 2- 20/05/2015
TAQA Level 4- 20/05/2015 & 27/05/2015
Basic Food Hygiene Level 2- 21/05/2015
Manual Handling Level 2- 27/05/2015
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) Level 2- 28/05/2015
Emergency First Aid at Work-
This course is ideal for individuals working in low hazard work environments, or where your needs assessment identifies a requirement for a first aider to be trained in emergency first aid. The course will take place on 13/05/2015.
8375: Essential Skills Practitioners Course-
Ideal for those delivering numeracy, literacy, and ESOL who need a recognised qualification to work as an essential skills practitioner. This course will take place at JanRo on 15th May.
Level 3 Award in Education and Training (PTLLS)-
Originally called PTLLS, this is an introductory course to the teaching strategies used in further education. Covering both the roles and responsibilities involved in education and training, and the inclusive learning and teaching approaches, this course is perfect for those individuals looking to attain an acclaimed qualification in the education and training industry. The Level 3 Award in Education and Training will take place on 19th May at JanRo.
Health and Safety Level 2-
The Health and Safety Level 2 award informs candidates on the legal responsibilities, risk assessments, accidents and more to ensure you can remain safe and know how to prevent accidents. The Health and Safety Level 2 award will take place on 20/05/2015.
TAQA Level 4-
The Training, Assessment, and Quality Assurance Level 4 course teaches you the skills you need to become an assessor. TAQA L4 will also take place at JanRo on 20/05/2015 and 27/05/2015.
Basic Food Hygiene Level 2-
This course encourages learners to take personal responsibility for food safety, along with teaching others the importance of personal hygiene in food safety. The Basic Food Hygiene Level 2 course will take place at JanRo on 21/05/2015.
Manual Handling Level 2-
Manual handling accidents account for more than a third of all accidents reported each year to the enforcing authorities, therefore to attain the Manual Handling Level 2 award ensures you understand the risks associated with manual handling and how to ensure appropriate control measures are in place to prevent injury. The course will take place on 27/05/2015.
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Level 2 (HACCP)-
The HACCP Level 2 courses teaches the learner the basic principles and the implementation of HACCP. This course additionally teaches others to identify common hazards and controls. This course will take place on 28/05/2015 at the JanRo office.
Dyslexia Screening
We also now offer dyslexic screening. If you require any further information on this course feel free to call us on 01685 872385.
To book your place on any of the above courses, you can contact us on 01685 872385 Monday-Friday between 08:30-5:30pm.
“Companies across Wales are expanding and reporting growth and this means job creation, which is great news if you are on the look out for that next move or you want to try something new. Firms are recruiting in a variety of sectors from manufacturing to business services and beyond. So, just who are the businesses on the look out for staff and what positions are available?
In January this year insurance giant Admiral confirmed it is taking on an additional 250 staff across its offices in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport. The firm, which employs around 5,000 people in Wales, is offering roles with a variety of responsibilities and salary grades with all new starters joining the Group’s employee share scheme, receiving up to £3,000 worth of free shares in the company each year.
Admiral’s Head of People Services, Ceri Assiratti, said: “We’re always looking for talented people to join the group and in the past we’ve been very successful in finding these people in South Wales.
“We’re very confident in finding more good quality people to meet our current recruitment needs.”
US company Alert Logic, which is headquartered in Houston, is a leading provider of security as a service for the cloud. Its European HQ and Security Operations Centre (SOC) is based in the heart of Cardiff’s Enterprise Zone in the Welsh Government’s Capital Quarter offices, while its UK datacentre is in Newport.
The company expects to create 135 jobs in South Wales over the next three years with the potential for further growth in the future.
Alert Logic will base its headquarters at the Capital Quarter development in the Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone
Princes Gate Spring Water is investing £5.5m in a major expansion project which will double staff numbers and more than triple production volumes . The Narberth based business is expanding its production facility, investing in a new state of the art bottling line capable of producing 37,000 bottles an hour – increasing annual production from approximately 85 million bottles to a potential 370 million – and sinking two new bore holes.
The expansion – which is essential to increase capacity to meet the growing demand for its organic spring water – is supported by £250,000 business finance from the Welsh Government .
Over the next three years it will create 25 new jobs bringing the total employed on site to more than 50.
PS Group
Cardiff -based telemarketing company PS Group has announced a major expansion with the creation of 80 new jobs and a move to new premises.
PS Group has hired the telemarketers to work in the company’s data correction department, as well as its existing product sales unit.
Founded by Wayne Phillips in 2010, the company provides various channels to directly target customers, selling third party products, as well as its own.
Wayne Phillips at PS Group’s office at Capital Business Park
GE Healthcare has launched a multi-million pound innovation village in Cardiff. The firm, which already employs 430 people at its 30 acre site close to Junction 32 of the M4, was a key exhibitor at the BioWales conference at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay in March. The innovation village will create 25 jobs initially and have room for between eight to 10 businesses.
It is understood the jobs will be in research and development, technology, innovation, diagnostics, cellular technology and research technology.
Ger Brophy, chief technical officer of GE Healthcare
JanRo offer lots of qualifications that could increase your chances of getting a job at one of these well known companies. Courses that we run include;
Customer Service Skills Level One
Customer Service Level Two
Handling Telephone Calls from Customers Entry Level Three
Retail: Introduction to receiving payment and giving change Entry Level One
Ethics and Value at Work (Awareness)
Dignity at Work (Awareness)
Health and Safety in the Workplace (Level One, Two and Three)
From Thursday 1st October, the national minimum wage will increase by 20p an hour to £6.70 as recommended by the Low Pay Commission (LPC) in March 2015 this year.
The government has rejected the LPC’s recommendation for the apprentice rate. The new apprenticeship rate will be set at £3.30 and represents a rise of 57 pence, the largest ever increase in the National Minimum Wage for apprentices. By implementing a rate higher than the LPC’s recommendation, the government intends that apprenticeships will deliver a wage that is comparable to other choices for work.
Business Secretary Vince Cable is also planning to launch the National Minimum Wage Accelerator – an online tool which will make it easier to compare rates of pay across regions, sectors and occupations. It will take data from the annual survey of hours and earnings and display information about pay so that people are able to compare wages with others in their sector and region
From 1 October 2015:
the adult rate will increase by 20 pence to £6.70 per hour
the rate for 18 to 20 year olds will increase by 17 pence to £5.30 per hour
the rate for 16 to 17 year olds will increase by 8 pence to £3.87 per hour
the apprentice rate will increase by 57 pence to £3.30 per hour
the accommodation offset increases from the current £5.08 to £5.35
For a lot of us it has become hard to imagine what we did before the internet as it has become such a vital part of our lives.
The internet is full of so much information that we take it for granted how easily we can find things out as long as we have internet access.
World Wide Web Week is all about reflecting on the internet and the issues that effect its usage.
82% of the UK’s population now have access to the internet; which shows how important it has become! This high percentage is also possibly down to great programmes such as Communities 2.0 in Wales that have helped people get connected and gain digital literacy skills.
But do we ever stop to think about the ethical and moral dilemmas that arise on the internet? It is this type of discussion that will be brought to the forefront of peoples minds during World Wide Web Week.
If you are interested in how to get involved or would like more information visit: www.worldwidewebweek.co.uk
ReAct helps people affected by redundancy gain new skills and encourages employers to employ redundant workers. We offer ReAct funding and are more than happy to help you work out if you can receive funding to help a redundant worker return to the workplace.
If you are an employer looking to recruit, there are 2 packages available for employing an individual who has been made redundant:
1) Employer Recruit Support
Employer Recruitment Support funds employers who want to recruit individuals that have been made redundant in the past 3 months. The award offers up to £3,000 paid in four instalments as a contribution towards wage costs.
2) Employer Training Support
This is a separate discretionary fund of up to £1,000 that an employer can be used towards the cost of the new recruit’s job-related training.
Employers can choose whether to apply for Recruitment Support alone or Recruitment and Training Support. Employer Training Support can only be used in conjunction with Employer Recruitment Support.
Who qualifies?
Employer Recruitment and Training Support is available to your business if the individual you wish to recruit is either under formal notice of redundancy or has become unemployed in the last 3 months.
The individual must have been a resident in Wales when they were first eligible for ReAct.
Individuals working 25 hours per week or more will attract a full wage subsidy whilst those employed between 16 – 24 hours per week will receive a wage subsidy equal to 50% of the full time rate. Employees who work less than 16 hours per week are not eligible for funding.
Employer Recruitment and Training Support is available if:
Your business is expanding and the post is new.
You are seeking a justifiable replacement for a vacant post.
Your business does not have a director in common with the company that made the individual you want to recruit redundant.
The job is at least 16 hours per week.
The job is expected to last for at least 12 months.
The job is not being supported by any other public or European Funding.
Your business has not reached the ‘de minimis’ threshold for State Aid rules.
If you require further information or advice about ReAct funding, feel free to call us Monday on 01685 872385.
‘PTLLS’ ( now called Level 3 Award in Education & Training) is a short introductory course to the teaching strategies used in further education and is the equivalent of an ‘introduction to teaching’ course. PTLLS consists of 30 hours’ delivery plus 30 hours of self-directed learning. It is a Level 3 qualification and after you’ve completed the PTLLS Award, you then need to take further qualifications depending on whether you’re aiming to qualify as a ‘full’ or ‘associate’ teacher.
Whilst most learners decide to do a PTLLS Award to get their careers in teaching further education started, which include tutoring, training and teaching 16+, PTLLS isn’t just restricted to that sector. Instead, it could be the stepping stone to a variety of other professions which use the same skills developed whilst studying.
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