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Accredited Qualification | Providing Homelessness Services

Accredited Qualification | Providing Homelessness Services

Accredited Qualification | Providing Homelessness Services

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

St Martin's Charity is pleased to be able to offer a 50% subsidy to successful applicants for this CHI Housing Academy accredited, and Homeless Link delivered, 20-week online course.

The subsidy means that the training can be offered at the reduced rate of £497.50, instead of the regular price of £999.

This course is ideal for client-facing staff working in either a paid or voluntary capacity in housing or homelessness. Typical job titles of those who study the level 3 qualification include: support worker, team leader, night worker, supported housing worker.

By looking at service delivery through a Trauma-informed and Strengths-based lens, the four units of the course will enhance your knowledge of supporting people. The course aims to give you the skills to practically support someone who is experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness whilst understanding their needs and focusing on their strengths and personal goals.

The qualification explores core areas of homelessness and has four compulsory units:

  • Unit 1: Homelessness services and prevention
  • Unit 2: Role of the practitioner for independent living
  • Unit 3: Engaging people with lived experience of homelessness
  • Unit 4: Professional practice skills for housing

Homeless Link trainers will deliver four sessions during the course and CIH Housing Academy tutors will assess and provide feedback on the written assignments that you will be required to submit for each unit. These assignments are designed to enable you to demonstrate your knowledge in relation to the four qualification units listed above.

Find out more about the course and how to apply

Application deadline: 16 February 2024

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