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Platform To Employment: NQ (Level 4)

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Qualification Qualifications Explained
NQ
Study Mode
Full Time
Duration

1 Academic Year - 2.5 Days p/w
Start date
Aug 2025
Campus
Easterhouse
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Course overview

If you have completed Steps to Employment or are looking for a new challenge and require a little extra help with showing off exactly what YOU can do, then pay close attention to the Level 4 Platform to Employment course!

Within this course we will offer you the chance to explore a wide range of practical topics, develop your independence, have your say, and choose your next steps. This is a chance to discover and learn while having fun and meeting new friends.

Learn to enhance the skills you have in our unique Level 3/4 Course helping you to overcome barriers, tackle challenges head on, boost your confidence and achieve your goals!

What you will learn

Within the course you will be given the opportunity to learn in modern and dynamic ways!

What you will you learn in your student journey?

  • Engage with our department Employment Development Worker and complete a 10 week independent work placement
  • Building employability skills through Group Work Experience 
  • Barista skills that you can showcase to the public through Enterprise
  • Manual Handling Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Employability Project- Volunteering with FARESHARE warehouse and Conservation Volunteers
  • Wellbeing Award
  • Volunteering with the Seven Lochs Wetlands 
  • Travelling independently 
  • Educational Excursions

Partnership with Employability Professionals and of course your imagination and goals as you work with our Professional Teaching Staff exploring the possibilities of future careers in areas you may never even have considered.

At Glasgow Kelvin we focus on YOU! With smaller classes than you may find in larger colleges we are highly learner focussed and have found that this approach works. We believe in Project based Learning and offer professional support at each point along your learning journey.

Entry requirements

You do not need to have any formal qualifications, but you should have

  • Have a learning difference
  • Can work at National level 3/4.

Future prospects

Progression to Employment or External Orginisation (SDS)

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