What Does The Training Programme Cover?

Induction
how BUPAS works (pay, hours, questions) and how the training programme works.

Disability awareness
a practical session where you will use different equipment to simulate disabilities. You will look for problems that disabled students face and think of some solutions.

Note taking
Improving your note taking skills by looking at different ways you can note take to help your student - and yourself!

Visual impairment support
two sessions of practice and theory about what it is like to be blind or visually impaired and how to provide mobility support, understand different media, and note take or otherwise assist a blind or visually impaired student.

Deaf awareness for education
two sessions where you will earn about D/deaf culture and what it is like to be deaf or hearing impaired in higher education. You will gain some practical support skills such as basic signing and finger spelling and understand how you fit in to a deaf student's support team.

Supporting physical disability
for this session we usually travel to a college for students with physical disabilities to meet some students and find out what they expect from university. You will gain further disability awareness and some practical skills such as how to assist with feeding and dressing.

Dyslexia support
These two sessions will give you a revealing insight into the skills and abilities of dyslexic students as well as the problems they encounter. You will learn about the dyslexic learning style and useful strategies for support.

Mental health awareness
This session will help you understand more about how stresses and problems can get out of control and affect learning, and what support is available if you are worried that this is affecting someone you know.

Safe working
all employees need to know their rights and responsibilities in this area, even more so when working with people who are vulnerable.

Assertiveness
there may be times in your working relationship with a student when you need to be able to assert yourself confidently about what you, or others, should or should not do whilst maintaining a working relationship based on mutual respect. You will use role play to practise your communication skills in this area

Handling difficult situations
in this session you will take further the assertiveness skills you have already learned and perhaps discuss some of the situations you have encountered that have caused difficulties