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Latest blog posts from the SVT team.

International Care Students

For the last 12 months at SVT we have seen a surge of international students wanting to start the training within Health & Social care. The main reason for this is the massive need in the UK for recruitment in the care sector and as a result t...
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2023 at SVT

Happy new year to all. ...
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The brand new City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care is now available at SVT

The brand new City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Care is now available at SVT.  This qualification is ideal for school leavers to ...
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New SVT London office is now open

We had posted a couple of months back on our social media platforms that one of our staff members was relocating to embark on a new advent...
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CMI Coaching and Mentoring Courses have arrived at SVT

  We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new courses - CMI Coaching and Mentoring. Levels  3, 5 & 7 Award, Certificate and Diploma now available at SVT ...
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Brand new ProQual Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety Management has arrived at SVT

  The Brand new ProQual Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety Management has landed at SVT. ...
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We are open as normal

The UK has entered into a second national lockdown today. The UK Government has advised it will be until the 2nd Dec. Although this could change, but we...
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Kathleen Kara smashes SVT student completion record

  We've had a student complete their course in 4 months setting the SVT student completion record. We th...
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SVT candidate success story - Congratulations to Mostafa Sharaf who gains CMIOSH status

  Hip hip hooray! We are so pleased to announce that Mostafa Sharaf fro...
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Show & Share at SVT

We're bursting with excitement and can't wait to reveal wh...
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SVT Gains level 7 Safety Diploma

SVT are very happy to announce we are providers of new Qualifi Level 7 International Diploma in Occuaptional Health & Safety. SVT will be also able to enrol candidates on an international level. This is a great course for those looking at an o...
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CMI or ILM? Which should you choose?

If you have ever considered adding a management qualification to your CV, you will most likely have come across the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM). One of the more common quest...
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Upgrade your level

Thinking of undertaking the NVQ Level 7 in Strategic Management and Leadership?   Who is the NVQ Level 7 for? The NVQ is for practising Managers, you should be in the role...
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Safety gets a boost with level 6

SVT are pleased to announce the addition of a Level 6 in Health and Safety  This course accredited by ProQual UK is r...
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Account Manager - Shaun 3 months at SVT

I moved my little family from Leeds to Lincolnshire to work for SVT. I worked as a door supervisor for a while then had enough of the job because it was early hour shifts which I couldn’t put up with, so I left. Few months after I got offere...
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Introducing the latest newbie!

As part of SVT's recent growth plans, it was decided that the time had come to b...
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Lauren Braid from Industry to the office

My name is Lauren Braid, I am an administrator for SVT ltd. I spent the last decade working in warehouses as a forklift driver, loading and unloading trailers and locating pallets in the warehouse. I had a few different truck type licenc...
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Morgan Elom

Even at 19, I have worked with many different companies in many different locations and during my time at these companies, I never felt satisfied with what I was doing, I felt as if my time was being wasted and I needed something more fulfilling a...
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Investing in local people SVT welcome Morgan

Due to my interest in sales, I was keen to find the right apprenticeship that would give me everything I’ve been looking for. Something that would give me a good introduction to what it feels like to be in sales, equip me with the right skil...
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City and Guilds level 5 Observations

I will be visiting Milton Keynes, Lichfield, and Maidstone during mid-November this year as part of my lead assessing role for the new City and Guilds NVQ Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice (3654-06) introduced in Augu...
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A Family Affair

I Started with SVT on the 9th of March 2015. I remember it well because I was 15 minutes late because there was a diversion through Grimsby with lots of road works. I was nearly here when a bin lorry blocked my way in. I thought is some...
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Starting with a bang

I first joined SVT In January of this year after finding out at the beginning of December that I was being made redundant. My best Christmas present was finding out that I was successful and had the job of Lead Administrator with SVT. ...
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Jo Towse Chats

I have worked within the NHS for over 20 years changing my career path to become a Health and Social Care Assessor in 2013. I have always enjoyed working within the health sector. Having a passion for good standards of practice and deliv...
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Longest Member of SVT

I started working for SVT in February 2004 as a part-time freelance NEBOSH support tutor working approximately 8 hours per week providing online support and guidance for candidates who were working towards their level 3 National General Certificat...
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A brief history of an assessor - Sean Watson

Hello, my name is Sean Watson and I assess Health & Safety. I first started assessing in 1997; training and assessing construction based qualifications. At the time, it was acceptable to complete an NVQ in a training enviro...
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The Kings Speech

I have worked for SVT from when it was formed and have seen hundreds of students graduate and achieve their qualifications through elearning, giving me a sense of great pride that I have helped them to achieve their goals. I speak to and have...
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Mark Avison on Mental Health Awareness

As a Health & Social Care distance learning provider, here at SVT we always recognise the importance to support and highlight issues within our Health & Social Care community. As a member of the SVT team, my personal support is o...
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Philip Jewitt My Time at SVT

Time passes so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I joined SVT as an NVQ Course Advisor My wife, Sharon and I moved back to sunny Cleethorpes (home) in 2013 after living and running a business in Financial Services in W...
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External Quality Assurances

Specialist Vocational Training Ltd hold centre approval with City & Guilds and the Institute of Leadership & Management. Regular readers will be aware that we offer a range of qualifications at levels 3 through to level 7 in Occupational H...
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What is a SWOT Analysis?

Well firstly, here’s what SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Ok, so what? What's it good for?...
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2016 Summarised by Mike Watson SVT CEO

In terms of pass rates for our students and end of year accounting 2016 has been our best year to date. On average 30 students, a month Graduated gaining qualifications at levels 4, 5 and 7 in Occupational Health & Safety, Care Management and ...
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Running SVT Ltd part 4

Business and more importantly managing a business is amongst the most interesting and rewarding aspects of my life. I have owned and managed many businesses including in the late 1980s a computer business called One Stop Ltd and in the late 1990s ...
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Working with other businesses

I have always, for the past 25 years, taken a view that working with other businesses that compliment my business is a good strategy for success. Of course you have to be sure when choosing your partners in business., I have made some mistakes in ...
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Running SVT Ltd

I can only discuss our business in terms of start up costs generally as every business is different of course. You will either be a start up business or established in part. This blog discuss how we started after SVT Ltd had been operating for 10 ...
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SVT Ltd business and business start-up part 3

In my last blog I explained a little of the background to my career so far and my ownership of businesses over the past 25 years or so. In this blog I would like to tell you a little about Specialist Vocational Training Ltd and the people who I wo...
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Running SVT Ltd Part 2

As discussed in my last blog or part 1 as I called it I will now discuss my part in a health and safety training company. At this point I will not go into detail as later in future blogs I will use my time at the health and safety company to expla...
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Running SVT Part 1

The most difficult matter to deal with when you start a business is normally money or the lack of it. I have started and ended a few businesses over the years and all but two of them that I started were forced on me. To be clear I started a busine...
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First words

My objective is to inform and help those who are interested in starting a business to be successful. This blog is aimed at those who have an ambition to start a business or in some cases improve their current business. I suspec...
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This is Mr David Bristow CMIOSH and more.

David was a close friend of mine. He died late in 2015 in a car crash as he was heading for his place of work in Saudi. His two work colleagues survived but were badly injured in the crash. David was just 63 years old. To say it was a sad event fo...
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