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0113 218 2627
17 June 2024 1:00pm–2:00pm
Virtual Training via Zoom
This session explores what dis/misinformation is, it’s dangers and why humans are so drawn towards conspiracy theories. Delivered by Hope Not Hate.
To register your interest for this virtual workshop please add your details to the form.
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
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
21 June 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
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
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
26 June 2024 10:00am–3:30pm
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.
The aims of the course are to enable the learner to:
• Introduce the role of UNISON in implementing job evaluation (JE)
• A recap on the role and importance of job evaluation (JE) including for equal pay
• Look at the key features of the NHS Job Evaluation scheme
• Find out more about how to ‘health-check’ your local JE practices and capacity
• Enable you to deal with initial job evaluation enquiries
• Identify organising and recruitment opportunities in the branch related to job evaluation
• Develop an action plan for your branch
• Signpost sources of help and guidance on job evaluation issues
• To encourage learners to get further involved with job evaluation and to consider training possibilities to become a job evaluation practitioner
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate
6 July 2024 10:00am–4:30pm
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS
This assertiveness training offers a means of learning an invaluable set of communication skills, which help to express our opinions, needs and feelings honestly and directly.
To book your place you will need to contact your branch for approval to attend. If you are unsure how to contact your branch, please use our branch finder tool – https://branches.unison.org.uk/
Your branch will then contact the team to book your place – r.bent@unison.co.uk
To book your place you will need to contact your branch for approval to attend. If you are unsure how to contact your branch, please use our branch finder tool – https://branches.unison.org.uk/
Your branch will then contact the team to book your place – r.bent@unison.co.uk
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
9 July 2024 10:00am–11:00am
Virtual Training via MS Teams
In this session you will gain an introductory understanding of ADHD – Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. You will learn to recognise and celebrate the positives of thinking differently.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
