Autism Understood

18 April 2024 12:30pm–1:30pm

Virtual Training via MS Teams

This introductory 1-hour session will help you gain an understanding of autism and look at workplace barriers for those who are autistic.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

RNIB Visually Impairment Awareness

25 April 2024 12:30pm–2:00pm

Virtual Training via MS Teams

This session with the RNIB will improve your understanding of different types of visual impairment and how they impact people’s lives. Using visual aids, myth busting, videos and more, it will give you key takeaways around facts and figures as well as practical skills, such as how to guide a blind person.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

Interview Skills

13 May 2024 6:30pm–7:30pm

Virtual Training via MS Teams

In attending this session you will recognise different types of Interviews you may encounter. Understand what the employer looks for in an interview and how to deconstruct interview questions.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

Further Representation Skills – Sheffield

23 – 24 May 2024

Niagara Conference Centre, Niagara Road, Sheffield, S6 1LU

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

Local Learning Hubs – This is a new initiative where we are working to bring regional training opportunities closer to you.

This  2 day course is designed to follow on from the 5 day Organising Stewards course or equivalent and is aimed at existing UNISON stewards. The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5 day course and explores in more detail:

• Process for identifying needs and exploring what is and isn’t a case
• Recap on sources of information especially the ACAS code
• Preparing for a grievance and a capability case
• Planning and building a case including interviewing witnesses
• Possible outcomes from cases.

Branch Charge: £40 per delegate

Organising Steward Training – Leeds

10 – 14 June 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.

This face to face training looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.

This course will run on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 June 2024.

This course is 30 hours learning in total.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

Making Equality Central to your Union Practice

19 June 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

Equality is written into our rule book and into our objectives and policies, but making equality part and parcel of everyday business is no small task. Making equality central to your union practice is a course that explores internal and external tools, which can support equality bargaining, negotiating, and representation. The course also looks at how to identify equality themes in organising and recruitment, as well as considering the different equality roles in UNISON and how you can utilise their support.

Branch charge: £30 per delegate

Health & Safety Representative Training

17 – 21 June 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.

This course is essential for new Health and Safety Representatives, or for those Health and Safety Representatives who have more experience but who haven’t yet had the chance to go on this course.

This course will take place on 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 June 2024.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

Bargaining & Campaigning for Insourcing

25 June 2024 10:00am–4:30pm

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This course is open to all branch officers and reps.

Years of outsourcing of public services have led to substantial deterioration in services and in the terms and conditions of members. Now some public organisations are open to the idea of bringing services back in house.

This course aims to persuade employers, members, and the public of the benefits of insourcing and will cover the following areas:

• Winning the arguments
• Identifying key targets
• Identifying allies
• Agitating for change and building a campaign
• Creating an action time-line

Branch Charge: £30 per delegate for the face-to-face training

Organising Steward Virtual Training

12 June 2024

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams (3 x Wednesdays, 2 x Fridays)

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This training will run on 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 June 2024 (3 x Wednesdays, 2 x Fridays).

Our virtual steward course delivers the same learning outcomes as the face-to-face Stage 1 + Stage 2 workplace representatives course combination. We have transformed our classroom based course into an virtual course, delivered by an experienced tutor.

Branch Charge: £50 per delegate

Workplace Reps Refresher Training (ERA Re-accreditation)

8 – 9 July 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

This training course will be delivered in over two days, face to face at Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Centre in Leeds. It is designed to meet the requirements of the Employment Rights Act (ERA) re-accreditation for further training of steward and workplace reps.

Branch Charge: £60 per delegate