Using SSSC eBooks

Technical Apprenticeships Career Skills

The Modern Apprenticeship Group has identified a range of pan-sector SVQ units at SCQF Level 7 and above which provide A National Framework of Career Skills Units for Technical and Professional Apprenticeships. Technical apprentices should complete career skills units at SCQF Level 7 or above and achieve a minimum of 15 credits in total. The book will concentrate on the career skills required. It is designed to provide you with resources in a flexible, innovative and user-friendly way, to help you develop your learning and assist you in meeting the career skills requirements of these technical apprenticeship frameworks.

Professional Apprenticeships Career Skills

The Modern Apprenticeship Group has identified a range of pan-sector SVQ units at SCQF Level 7 and above which provide A National Framework of Career Skills Units for Technical and Professional Apprenticeships. Professional apprentices should complete career skills units at SCQF Level # or above and achieve a minimum of 15 credits in total. The book will concentrate on the career skills required. It is designed to provide you with resources in a flexible, innovative and user-friendly way, to help you develop your learning and assist you in meeting the career skills requirements of these professional apprenticeship frameworks.

Personal outcomes planning

When we talk about personal outcomes we mean things that are important to people in their lives. Personal outcomes approaches mean acknowledging individual strengths and working towards establishing a shared sense of purpose to which everyone can contribute, including the person, their family, carers and other community resources as well as services. This book has been designed as a planning tool to help you support people to identify and work towards their personal outcomes. It will provide you with information about the aspects that influence personal outcomes, and has learning activities that should help you to reflect on what you have learned. You can also apply for open badges to help you provide evidence of your learning.

Engaging with children and young people

This ebook has been designed as a tool to help social service workers learn some key aspects of engaging with children and young people. In addition to providing information you will find useful at work, it has activities that should help you apply and reflect on what you have learned.

Mentoring for early learning and childcare

This ebook will help your implement a mentoring programme in your early learning and childcare service. This book has been adapted from “Guidance for Mentoring in Childhood Practice (2010) by the Coalition of Childhood Umbrella Organisations. The mentoring book is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Every organisation and the staff who work in it are different. However, there are elements which are common to all successful progrommes. The content of this book focuses on these common elements.