Certificate in Counselling Skills NCFE CACHE Level 2 - Evening

You will learn through inter­ac­tive lessons and assign­ments using inno­v­a­tive, up to date prac­tices to enable you to gain an aware­ness of coun­selling skills and how to use them.

Start Date: Week com­menc­ing 12^th Sep­tem­ber 2022

Day: Tuesdays

Times: 1.30pm to 4.30pm or 5.30pm to 8.30pm

No for­mal qual­i­fi­ca­tions are required, sim­ply an inter­est in the subject.

You will be assessed through class­room activ­i­ties, assign­ments and per­son­al journal/​diary.

The full fee for this course is £811.

How­ev­er you may be eli­gi­ble to pay a reduced fee if:

You already hold a Lev­el 2 qual­i­fi­ca­tion already (5 GCSEs A*/9 to C/4 or a qual­i­fi­ca­tion flagged as a full Lev­el 2), then the course fee would be £362.

You already hold a Lev­el 2 qual­i­fi­ca­tion already (5 GCSEs A*/9 to C/4 or a qual­i­fi­ca­tion flagged as a full Lev­el 2), and you are unem­ployed, the course fees are waived com­plete­ly and there are no fees to pay. Evi­dence would need to be pro­vid­ed. £0.

If you do not know whether you have a Lev­el 2 qual­i­fi­ca­tion, you maybe able to access your ​‘Per­son­al Learn­ing Record’ (PLR). More infor­ma­tion about your PLR can be found here: https://​www​.gov​.uk/​g​u​i​d​a​n​c​e​/​h​o​w​-​t​o​-​a​c​c​e​s​s​-​y​o​u​r​-​p​e​r​s​o​n​a​l​-​l​e​a​r​n​i​n​g​-​r​ecord

This Lev­el 2 course does not qual­i­fy you to prac­tice as a Coun­sel­lor. How­ev­er, peo­ple on this course have devel­oped their careers in:

• Cus­tomer Ser­vice Roles
• Advice and Guidance
• Men­tor­ing
• Health and Social Care
• Team Lead­ing

Suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course will allow you to progress to:

• Lev­el 3 Award in Coun­selling Skills and Theory
• Lev­el 3 Diplo­ma in Coun­selling Skills

You will study the fol­low­ing units:

• Using Coun­selling Skills
• Intro­duc­tion to coun­selling Skills Theories
• Diver­si­ty and Ethics in the use of Coun­selling Skills
• Coun­selling Skills and Per­son­al Development

Top­ics covered:

• The impor­tance of being a skilled helper 
• Dif­fer­ent types of coun­selling skills and how to use them
• Coun­selling theories
• Estab­lish­ing a coun­selling contract
• Struc­tur­ing a coun­selling skills session
• Self-Aware­ness
• Aware­ness of difference