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Mincéirí (Waterford Traveller CDP) Pathway To Employment L4 2026/27

  • Starts Continuous
  • 20 Hrs 00 Mins a week
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About this course

The programme is designed to provide training opportunities to raise competency levels of unemployed people, facilitating their progression to or towards labour market participation.

The programme aims to provide learners with the skill, knowledge and competence to obtain entry level employment or progress to further education and training while developing their key transferable and vocational employment related skills, appropriate to their identified career path. Programme content includes use of ICT applications, as well as communication skills, work experience and application of mathematical skills and a range of elective modules such as retail, security, childcare, ICT and horticulture.

This programme leads to a QQI Level 4 Major Award in General Learning.

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Education requirements

Applicants seeking entry to the programme must have achieved a minimum of a QQI level 3 Major award or its equivalent prior to entry to the programme.

Age requirements

16

Learning aptitude

The programme will suit learners who have identified their career pathway and are seeking to further develop their key, employment related, transferable and vocational skills, knowledge and competence. All participants on the programme must have received clearance through the Garda Vetting procedures before any engagement with children as part of their programme of training

Previous experience

Alternatively, applicants may have achieved the equivalent standard of Knowledge, skill and competence through relevant work experience

Module Award Awarding body
Communications (Community) Communications (4N0689) QQI
Functional Mathematics (Community) Functional Mathematics (4N2138) QQI
Information Technology Skills (Community) Information Technology Skills (4N1125) QQI
Personal Effectiveness (Community) Personal Effectiveness (4N1132) QQI
Work Experience (Community) Work Experience (4N1168) QQI
Understanding Interculturalism (Community) Understanding Interculturalism (4N1121) QQI
Customer Service (4N1989) Customer Service (4N1989) QQI
Retail Sales Techniques - 4N1183 Retail Sales Techniques (4N1183) QQI
Business English Business English (4N1108) QQI

Learning Outcomes On completion of this programme learners will have the skills, knowledge and competencies to work effectively in a range of community development work settings or to progress to further or higher education and training. Employability Statement The successful completion of the QQI Major Level 5 Award in Community Development will enable applicants to work effectively in a range of community development work settings, using some initiative and independence while under general direction.

QQI Level 4 Pathway to Employment Major Award location in Waterford Traveller CDP Deise House Railway Square Waterford City. Open to female applicants aged 16 years and over from the Travelling Community.
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