12 www.preston.ac.uk MAKING OUR LEARNERS THE MOST EMPLOYABLE! At Preston College, we take great pride in supporting all of our learners to achieve the qualifications and outcomes they need. By embedding a range of career related qualifications, in addition to chosen programmes of study, we can add value to your studies, further increase knowledge and experience and at no additional cost. In short, it’s our mission to help make our learners the most employable and to thrive in their chosen career. From essential digital skills, industry progression and employability, through to maths and English and mental health and wellbeing, these skill enhancing courses not only add real value to your learning journey, but they enable you to maximise your career potential. After seeing a friend post photographs from an earlier female multiskills course on social media, Laura decided to look into the course in more detail before signing up to the course herself. Having never undertaken any practical construction before, or been given the opportunity to do so, she felt that the course provided the chance to gain the life skills that she wished she already had. With plans to move to Australia in the future, as part of a working holiday, Laura feels that the basic skills she is learning in carpentry and joinery, plastering, plumbing and tiling, alongside the increased confidence in tool selection and use, will provide the first steps to potential employment opportunities overseas. LAURA FEMALE CONSTRUCTION MULTISKILLS LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATE Having previously worked within a busy public sector accountancy team and later as a linguistics lecturer, after spending five months in rehabilitation, Mick was advised to think about a career in adult social care when the staff quickly recognised he had a natural flair for the role. Feeling like he had lost his future and crediting the staff at the rehabilitation centre with helping him to find it, Mick started a Level 2 Awareness of Mental Health course with Preston College. Since then, and with ambitions of ultimately progressing into the Counselling profession, Mick has studied Mental Health First Aid and Advocacy Level 2, Health and Social Care Level 1 and will begin his Level 2 Counselling studies later this academic year. Already offered employment within the Health and Social Care sector, Mick credits the education and support he has received at college with allowing him to forge plans for the future and progress. MIKE HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE LEVEL 1 AWARENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH LEVEL 2 MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID & ADVOCACY LEVEL 2
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