Business & Management
Business Administrator
Business Administrators possess a number of highly transferable set of skills, knowledge and behaviours that can be applied to a number of sectors.
Customer Services Specialist
A Customer Service Specialists main role is to provide professional customer support within all sectors and organisations.
Operations / Departmental Manager
An Operations/Departmental Manager is someone who manages teams and/or projects, and achieving operational or departmental goals and objectives.
Customer Service Practitioner
The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality products and services to the customers of their organisation.
Team Leader / Supervisor
A team leader / supervisor is a first line management role, with operational/project responsibilities or responsibility for managing a team to deliver a clearly defined outcome.
Procurement and Supply Assistant
This occupation is found in all organisations where goods and/or services need to be sourced and purchased in line with national or international procurement laws, or internal governance processes.
Improvement Leader
Improvement Leaders are responsible for developing improvement strategy, providing leadership in improvement for the business and for coaching and supporting Improvement Specialists in advanced analysis.
Education, Children & Young People
Early Years Educator
Early Years Educators, are highly trained professionals who play a vital role in the development and learning of young children.
Children, Young People and Families Practitioner
As a practitioner you will be working with children, young people and families, including carers, to achieve positive and sustainable change in their lives.
Children, Young People and Families Manager
As a Children, Young People and Family Manager you will ensure direction, alignment and commitment within your own practice, your team(s), your organisation and across partnerships to help children, young people and families aspire to do their best and achieve sustainable change.
Learning and Skills Teacher
The Learning and Skills Teacher (LST) is ‘dual-professional’, having first achieved competence in a vocational or subject specialism and then subsequently trained as a teacher.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistants work in Primary, Special and Secondary education across all age ranges encompassing special educational needs and emotional vulnerabilities.
Early Years Practitioner
This occupation is found in a range of private and public settings including; full day care, children’s centres, pre-schools, reception classes, playgroups, nursery schools, home based provision, hospitals, social care settings, out of school environments and local authority provision to deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) requirements set by government for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Engineering
Engineering Operative
Engineering Operatives are predominantly involved in engineering operations which are key to the success of the Manufacturing and Engineering sector, allowing employers to grow their business while developing a workforce with the relevant skills and knowledge to enhance and sustain the sector.
Maintenance & Operations Engineering Technician
Maintenance & Operations Engineering Technicians covers 7 roles: Electrical Technicians; Mechanical Technicians; Control & Instrumentation Technicians; Wind Turbine Technicians Electrical System and Process Control Technicians; Electromechanical Technicians and Plant Operations Technicians.
Engineering Technician
Engineering Technicians take responsibility for the quality and accuracy of the work they undertake within the limits of their personal authority.
Metal Fabricator
This occupation is found in the advanced manufacturing engineering and engineering construction sectors.
Health Care & Health Science
Adult Care Worker
Adult Care Workers are the frontline staff who help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible, enabling them to have control and choice in their lives.
Lead Adult Care Worker
Lead Adult Care Workers are the frontline staff who help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible, enabling them to have control and choice in their lives.
Lead Practitioner in Adult Care
The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges.
Leader in Adult Care
A Leader in Adult Care has responsibility for managing community or residential based services. This role has a large element of leadership, whether with other care workers and networks or in leading the service itself.
Manufacturing & Food Manufacturing
Food and Drink Process Operator
Food and Drink Process Operators work in one of the largest, most dynamic and fastest growing sectors of industry.
Packhouse Line Leader
The Packhouse Line Leader is a key supervisory role, helping the company operate efficiently.
Furniture Manufacturer
Furniture Manufacturers must be dexterous, have a good work ethic and able to demonstrate their ability to work individually and as part of a team.
Lean Manufacturing Operative
A Lean Manufacturing Operative will be expected to carry out their work safely and meet the exacting quality standards demanded in a fast paced and efficient processing environment and develop into a multi-skilled operator through process ownership.
Prosthetic and Orthotic Technician
Prosthetic and Orthotic Technicians use the specification/ prescription provided to make devices that aid movement, correct deformity and relieve discomfort for adults and children.
Food and Drink Technical Operator
This occupation is found in the food and drink manufacturing sector.
Companies are in the main large. They may produce one type of food and drink product or a range of products. Products may include biscuits, cakes, confectionary, fresh fruit, ready-to-eat and ready-to cook food, sandwiches, salads, soft drinks, and wraps.
Health and Safety
Transport and Logistics
Port Operative
Port Operatives have key roles in enabling businesses to deliver on time and safely.
Supply Chain Warehouse Operative
Warehouse Operatives work in a variety of warehouse environments.
Supply Chain Operator
This is an entry-level apprenticeship which provides the foundation knowledge skills & experience for the role of Supply Chain Operator within occupational areas in the Supply Chain industry.
Digital Skills
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Is This Our Winter of Discontent?
As a child I didn’t feel the impact of the 1978/79 winter industrial action but it’s current historical comparison 42 years later fills me with a sense of sadness & dread.
There’s no doubt that we’ve been through a lot over the past two years.
A pandemic, which incidentally is still prolific throughout the world despite our rule relaxations, food shortages, toilet roll gate, climate emergencies, Brexit, energy shortages, furlough, business closures, redundancies, fuel crisis & this is only naming the ones that come readily to a mind overwhelmed with stuff.
And let’s not forget the real cost of the pandemic in lives lost!
So, what’s going on?
Are these challenges we’re facing a result of, or heightened in severity by the pandemic, or are we all so tightly wound up following 18 months of restrictions that bubbling over & bursting is inevitable?
I don’t consider myself to be overly intelligent but I’m pretty sure that our recovery relies on our collective hard work & cooperation & allowing our base emotions to spill over will only make this more difficult to achieve.
I’ve reached a point of avoiding news reports as I’m no longer able to separate the sensationalism from fact, but I know from witnessing this media race to the gutter that these reports do become our reality.
Reporting ‘potential’ shortages of food & essential supplies resulted in panic buying & an inevitable shortage of food & essential supplies & reports of ‘possible’ fuel shortages, yes you guest it, resulted in panic buying & fuel shortages!
How refreshing would it be if the media reported fact, resisting the urge of a sensationalist headline?
Witnessing people fighting over toilet rolls, pasta & petrol is sad & distressing, but it also evokes in us that feeling of self-preservation & the need to buy up our supplies to avoid those irrational consequences of not joining in.
We’re not a poor country, we’ve led the world in vaccines to fight COVID19, we’ve shown our resolve, patriotism & ability to work together, regardless of differences, throughout this pandemic for the common good.
So, what’s going wrong?
Our politicians are now resorting to vulgar mudslinging, we’re fighting each other for toilet roll & we’re no longer interested in the needs of others if they get in the way of ours!
No!
I’m not buying it. This isn’t who we are & I firmly believe that those incidents of reprehensible behaviour reported in the media are still in the minority.
Good people can do daft stuff in the heat of emotion & we’re all guilty of putting the needs of our families first even if that involves queuing for that half tank of fuel that could wait until next week or stocking up on essential foods to avoid doing without.
Our winter of discontent will only be a reality if we allow it to be.
If there’s a shortage of HGV drivers & subsequent delays in bin collections, we can take our own rubbish to the tip.
If we can’t get fuel for a couple of days, we can walk, & we know that some of us can work remotely to avoid travel if necessary!
We know that the mainstream media are irresponsible in their reporting, but we don’t need to be irresponsible in our reaction to their reporting.
I’m going to make an effort to be less panicky & a bit more neighbourly & I’ll do my best to share a smile, although please remember I have a resting face that resembles a slapped backside!
I hope you have a good week & avoid the urge to panic.
Cheers
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