Essential Skills

Develop confidence, life skills and interpersonal skills
Get help with interviews and finding work
Develop your IT, English and maths skills

We offer a range of Essential Skills courses for all ages, whether you’re 16-18 or 19 years or over. Our friendly and supportive tutors will help you explore your strengths and career interests, develop your key skills in English, maths and IT and grow your confidence and teamwork skills.

We offer a range of short courses for a variety of abilities.

Courses available in:

Employability Workshops
Confidence Building, Goal Setting and Volunteering
Getting into Care, Hospitality, Retail, Warehousing and Logistics, Business Administration
Functional Skills English and Maths
Essential Digital Skills

The majority of our Essential Skills courses are aimed at helping those aged 19+ secure employment. We’ll help you develop communications skills, IT, English and maths skills and can support with CVs and interview preparation. The Pathway to Careers course offers under 19s the chance to try out a range of industries before committing to a course full-time.

What our students say

“I love sport and College provides me with the perfect place to see my friends and develop the skills I need to work within Sport.”

Lana Ballantyne Level 3 - BTEC National Foundation Diploma in Sports Coaching and Development

“I want to go on to study at University and become a Paramedic. This course helps me prepare for that next step and I get to learn in a friendly and fun environment.”

Ryan Lebeter Level 2 - Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care

“I definitely feel that the apprenticeship is preparing me for my future career. I’ve become very confident and comfortable in my role. The support I’ve received from people in the team has been brilliant and they’ve prepared me to work fulltime in the workplace”

Stacey McCallum Business Administration Apprenticeship