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Courtown Pathway to Employment L4 2026/27

  • Starts Continuous
  • 33 Hrs 15 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
Career Planning And Work Experience (4N1168) Work Experience (4N1168) QQI
Information Technology Skills (4N1125) Information Technology Skills (4N1125) QQI
Communications (4N0689) Communications (4N0689) QQI
Food And Nutrition (4N2830) Food & Nutrition (4N2830) QQI
Health Related Fitness (4N2666) Health Related Fitness (4N2666) QQI
Functional Maths Functional Mathematics (4N2138) QQI
Construction Skills 3N0882-006 Construction Skills (3N0882) QQI
Career Preparation and Planning Career Preparation & Planning (4N21060) QQI

Learners will be able to: 1. Demonstrate personal skills that enable them to be effective in familiar and unfamiliar social and employment situations. 2. Display an ability to interact positively in the managed learning environment and/or the learner’s individual work experience situation. 3. Communicate verbally and nonverbally in routine everyday tasks, and in work-related tasks while under supervision. 4. Display an ability to resolve a moderate range of mathematical problems in the managed learning environment and/or individual's work experience situation. 5. Use a moderate range of information technology skills to apply known solutions to a range of predictable problems in the managed learning environment or individual work experience situation. 6. Demonstrate a moderate range of skill, knowledge and competence related to vocational areas as identified by the learner in their selected elective choices as necessary for their chosen career path.

QQI Level 4 Pathway to Employment Major Award location in Gorey Youth Needs Courtown Unit 4 & Unit 6 Ocean Point Courtown Co Wexford. Open to applicants aged 16 years and over. Additional programmes include AIT Accredited Certification in Gel Polish/Gel Enhancements/BIAB/E-File/Lash & Brow Tint & Wax/Threading/Lash Lift. Also offering QQI Minor Awards in Paint & Decorating/Floor & Wall Tiles/Craft Woodwork.
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