Digital Courses
Developing your people doesn’t have to be expensive
We have partnered with the Digital College to offer their accredited online vocational training courses. Within each category, there are all the related courses. By clicking on Find Out More under each course, you will be taken to the Digital College website for more information on the course and how to book.
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Personal Development and Learning
Are you looking for a new start? Maybe it’s a new job, or even starting your own business. Equip yourself with the tools and skills you need with these personal development and learning courses.
Planning to start your own business
This course is designed to help you understand the challenges of starting a new business and give you some guidance about how to turn your ideas into a simple plan. It is also about setting the aims of your business and realistic expectations for what is required to meet them.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Basic Microsoft Word and Excel
Get your office skills up to speed with our beginners guide to Microsoft Word and Excel. Our online course provides and introduction to using the most common word processor and spreadsheet software programmes in use today.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Basic Bookkeeping
This course has been developed for people who are interested in getting to grips with the basics of accounting – that is keeping financial records, or “the books”, in order for a business or any organisation with financial activities. Getting comfortable with bookkeeping is a handy skill if you are running your own business or getting involved with helping manage the finances of a charity. Bookkeeping can be a fulltime job in its own right and is also a first step on the ladder to becoming an accountant. Accounting can seem quite intimidating at first. There appear to be lots of rules and unusual terms. Fortunately your first steps as a bookkeeper are usually limited to handling the record keeping that the more experienced, qualified accountants can use.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Essential IT Skills
Our Essential IT Skills course provides a basic foundation in using a modern Windows computer. The course will introduce the learner to mouse and keyboard usage and slowly build their confidence in using the desktop. The course also offers a brief introduction into what applications are. Finally the learner is introduced to web browsing and printing.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Social Media Skills - Work and Personal
Social media skills are important both for our personal benefit and for use within a business. This course starts with an introduction to the world of social media to improve personal profiles and career development opportunities. There is specific attention towards using Social Media for job hunting. The final half of the course covers business usage including a module introducing social media advertising.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Business Administration - An Introduction
Business Administration is an important role within many organisations. This online course will introduce the expectations of the job and then start to provide more detail about how to perform many of the typical tasks. The course will also help candidates develop many useful skills including: planning, prioritisation and customer service. Finally the course will provide some basic IT skills for communication and collaboration.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Your first 90 days in a new job
This free course provides some practical advice how to make a success of your first few days and months in a new job. Creating the right impression straight away is very important and will set you off in the best way possible. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS NOT ACCREDITED AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES£0.00 +VAT
Workplace Well-being Support
Workplace well-being is primarily concerned with an employee’s personal happiness; it is about them being physically healthy, feeling mentally sound and being in control of their financial stability.
A Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
This course looks at the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 and examines, amongst others, such topics as: what is the MCA and who does it cover; statutory procedures within the Act; decision making and how to decide what is in a person’s best interests. Candidates will undertake an online assessment and will receive a certificate if successful. (Any certificates from an official awarding body are sent to you in hardcopy format).Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
An Awareness of Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace
This course is designed to provide an introduction to Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace. As well as explaining what is meant by the terms “Mental Health” and “Wellbeing”, the course aims to raise awareness of common mental health issues and provides suggestions of what to do if/when working life is affected by a manageable mental health condition, such as stress, anxiety, low mood and depression.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work
This course is designed to provide practical guidance for people whose working life is being affected by a manageable mental health condition, such as depression, anxiety or stress.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Health and Safety Awareness for Employees
This course gives a general understanding of the requirements and responsibilities that employees have in respect of health and safety at work. It also highlights the additional responsibilities that an employer has to work with you to ensure a safe working environment. This course contains ongoing assessment to demonstrate that an employee understands the material.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Introduction to First Aid at Work
This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to the legal obligations of employers and employees with regard to first aid provision in the workplace. It also explains what first aid is all about, highlights the role of the first aider and goes on to describe how to deal with minor injuries.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Safeguarding - An Introduction
This course is designed to provide you with a general understanding of the concept of safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children and young people.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA)
This Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) course is designed to help those who work with vulnerable adults increase their knowledge on such an important subject. Safeguarding adults is everyone’s responsibility and having a thorough understanding of the process is invaluable to you, your business and the vulnerable adults you know. This safeguarding adults training aims to help you identify the signs of potential abuse and understand what to do with your concerns.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Safeguarding Children and Young People
Our safeguarding children course is essential for anybody who works with the young. This safeguarding children course course will help you understand your role and responsibilities, and support you in feeling confident in carrying out appropriate actions should you have any concerns.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Lone Working
This course gives the learner a good understanding of how lone working is covered by health and safety law and highlights the importance of conducting a risk assessment before every lone working episode. It goes on to demonstrate what should be involved in a risk assessment and discusses ways of reducing possible risk.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Fire Marshal Training
This course will provide you with everything you need to be an effective Fire Marshal in your workplace..Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Workplace Skills Training (Construction)
These courses are ideal if you work in the construction industry and are looking to further yourself professionally and develop new skills for your CV. Similarly. they are beneficial if you’re looking to train up members of your construction staff.
Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety Certificate
Our level 1 food hygiene certificate course gives an introduction and basic understanding of food hygiene and is an essential starter course for people who wish to work in the manufacture, preparation and serving of food and food products. At the end of it, you’ll come away with a basic food hygiene certificate, too!Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Level 2 Food Hygiene And Safety Certificate
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Working at Height: A Guide to Keeping Safe
The aim of this course is to help those working at height to do so safely and responsibly, following nationally recognised safe practice guidelinesDigital Certificate
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Abrasive Wheels - A Guide to Keeping Safe
The aim of this course is to help those working with abrasive wheels do so safely and responsibly following nationally recognised safe practice guidelines. This course is also suitable for those who are responsible – i.e. employers – for the maintenance of abrasive wheels and the grinders they are attached to, to ensure they take all necessary precautions to minimise the risk of accidents in their places of work.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Traffic Marshal (Construction)
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Retail skills and values
This course gives the learner a good understanding of the need for excellent customer service and communication skills within the Retail sector. It goes on to give useful tips to improve and develop these skills.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Asbestos Awareness
This course provides employers and employees with a general understanding of what is needed to comply with legal requirements and health and safety best practice when working with asbestos-containing materials.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Manual Handling
This course is designed to give the learner a good understanding of how to safely undertake a manual handling operation. It covers topics including: what is manual handling; the legal requirements behind manual handling operations; risk assessment; manual handling techniques; etc.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
COSHH
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
CSCS Green Card: online course/exam package
This course combines The Digital College courses “Level One Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment” and “Preparation for the CITB health, safety and environment test” to enable you to attain a CSCS “Green Card” as quickly as possible. Nothing extra to pay; all training and exam costs included! You just pay for the card.L1 Health and Safety Qualification
Plus CITB Test
£150.00 +VAT
Workplace Skills Training (Retail & Service Sectors)
Provide your staff with skills training within the retail and service sectors with these workplace courses. They offer the training necessary for those working in these industries to succeed.
Restaurant Hospitality
This course aims to explain the basics in good hospitality skills and at the same time show how it can be equally useful for workers in other areas of hospitality such as bars, cafes and coffee shops. We will provide the information needed to help you give the best customer service.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Call/Contact Centre - An Introduction
Call or Contact Centres are an essential element of modern businesses of just about all types. This course is designed to give you a good understanding of contact centre operations; across the typical operations of a call centre to useful skills such as customer service.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Customer Service and Care - An Introduction
Customer Service is one of the most important aspects in any business. As such, this course has been designed to cover a range of areas, including the principles of excellent customer care; how to provide excellent customer care; and, how to communicate effectively with customers.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Travel and Tourism - An Introduction
The travel and tourism is a vital business in the UK, accounting for 10% of all jobs. Our online course explains the six components of the industry, introduces typical roles and responsibilities and provides an introduction to training in those all important customer skills. The course also explores sustainable tourism; something that is vital to the future of the industry.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistants have taken a growing role within the primary and secondary school classrooms. This course will explain the requirement to become a teaching assistant, the typical role and how it can be used as a first step in a career in education. The course also introduces useful topics such as safeguarding, health and safety and behaviour management.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Warehousing and Logistics - An introduction
The Warehouse and Logistics course provides a good introduction to this industry and provides a foundation for a wide variety of roles across receiving goods, inspections, picking and packing. The course provides details about the terminology and processes typically employed in a warehouse.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Handling and Resolving Conflict
In this course the learner is introduced to what we mean by the term “conflict”; how to deal with problems positively; how to deal with abusive and violent behaviour; methods for resolving conflict: and how to handle complaints.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Workplace Skills Training (Health & Social Care)
Develop your professional skills within the health and social care industry with these workplace skills training courses. They offer the learner the opportunity to gain knowledge into a new area of care.
REACH
This course gives the learner a basic understanding of the regulations that have come to be known as REACH. That is, the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Infection Control
This course gives the learner an excellent understanding of the importance of infection control in a healthcare environment. It covers the three main stages that are crucial for effective control of cross-contamination and control of infectious bacteria and viruses – hand hygiene; personal protective equipment; and the safe use and disposal of sharps.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Handling and Administering of Medicines
The purpose of this course is to provide guidance for people in every aspect of health care who are involved in the handling and administering of medicines. The course sets out the principles of safe and appropriate handling of medicines and explains how these apply in specific services.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Information Governance in Health and Social Care
The learner will gain a good basic knowledge of the importance of maintaining a high level of confidentiality when it comes to the handling of patient-identifiable information.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Early Years Childcare for Childminders
This course outlines the requirements to become a childminder – including registering and working within Ofsted’s guidelines. There is also training on the important topics of the Early Years Foundation Stage and safeguarding. This course is a great first step for future qualifications and helps meet Ofsted’s training requirements. (Note: This course uses England’s EYFS Framework)Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Early Years Childcare for Nurseries
Nurseries offer a great first step into Early Years Childcare. This course outlines what it is required in a nursery and provides useful training in the key Early Years Framework. There is also a section to familiarise you with Safeguarding, Welfare and inspections.Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Understanding Well-being
Understanding well-being is important to living a happy and healthy life. These courses will guide you through issues we face through our lives and equip you with the skills to deal with them effectively.
A Guide to Nutrition and Health in Older People
This course provides a general understanding of the nutritional requirements of older people. It covers nutrition, food types, choice and variety and exercise.Digital Certificate Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT
Understanding Eating Disorders
This understanding eating disorders course aims to give your employees the knowledge required to understand the impact and key issues surrounding eating disorders, as well as an awareness of the harmful effects eating disorders can have on individuals and those closest to them. The course is ideal for anyone who would like more information on this subject for personal reasons, or anyone who would like to work with, and support, individuals with eating disorders.
Digital Certificate
CPD Accredited
£27.50 +VAT
Understand the Principles of Exercise and Fitness
Would any of your employees benefit from completing one of our fitness training courses? This course aims to help your employees develop an understanding of the principles of health and fitness. They will look at the role exercise plays in supporting health and fitness, nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet, anatomy and physiology, and the effects exercise has on the body.
Digital Certificate
CPD Accredited
£27.50 +VAT
A Guide to Dementia Awareness
This course provides an excellent understanding of issues around dementia. It covers topics including: what is dementia and who tends to be affected by it? Signs and symptoms of dementia; communicating with people with dementia; and understanding and respect.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Understanding Epilepsy
In this course, the learner will be introduced to why epilepsy happens; the process of diagnosing epilepsy; various types of seizures, including symptoms; treatment and management of epilepsy; and the need to provide an accurate description of observed seizures.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Understanding Diabetes
This course gives the learner a general understanding of diabetes – what it is, the signs and symptoms associated with it, and how to help someone who is experiencing a diabetes attack.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Stress Awareness and Management
This course gives the learner an excellent understanding of what we mean by stress and the typical causes of stress. It goes on to increase the learner’s awareness of the signs of stress and to develop strategies to manage it.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Awarding Body
£27.50 +VAT
Money Sense
This course is designed to give the learner a good understanding of personal finance and to help them to reach a realistic and effective balance between the money they have coming in, and money they have going out.
Digital Certificate
Accredited by Highfield Qualifications
£27.50 +VAT