North Connaught College Employer Services

Welcome to the North Connaught College Employer Services portal. This has been developed in conjunction with the North West Regional Skills Forum. The Regional Skills Forum is a single contact point to help employers connect with the range of services and supports available across the education and training system. Visit North West Regional Skills Forum website.

North Connaught College provides a wide range of services to employers. Employers can find information on education and training programmes for existing and potential employees Employers interested in taking our full time learners on placement can also apply through this page. If you have any

vacancies in your organisation (full time or part time), please advertise the position here. In addition, employers are invited to suggest project titles for our students.

Furthermore, we welcome applications from employers interested in sharing their experience and expertise with our students. Finally, a list of events and conferences that may interest employers is provided.

More Information

• Recruit a learner on placement (e.g. one day a week)
• Upcoming events for employers
• Train your Staff
• Suggest a project for our full time learners
• Come in and speak to our learners

Contact us for more information by email or call us on 071-9185035

Upcoming events for employers

• College Open Days – meet our work experience co-ordinator Patricia Hurley. Contact the college for the next available date.

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Train your Staff

North Connaught College have a number of part time programmes that are delivered in the evenings. Please see below the list of part time programmes running and planned for 2017. Please contact Patricia O’Reilly on 0719185035 for further information. If you require bespoke training for your employees, please contact James Hardiman by email or on 0719185035 for further information. Occasionally free programmes for groups of employees in a particular industry take place at the college under the “Skills for Work” programme.  Contact James Hardiman by email or on 0719185035 for further information on whether your employees could be included.

Evening & Part Time courses 2018-2019

Click here for evening courses

Click here for part time courses

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Recruit a learner on placement (e.g. one day a week)

All of our full time programmes have placement modules where the learners go out into employer organisations to receive valuable work experience. These placements are beneficial for the learner and the employer. The employer gains by getting access to a knowledgeable and enthusiastic student. In the past, many of these students returned to work permanently with their placement employer. We are always interested in hearing from employers looking to take on a student on placement. The length of the placement varies from programme to programme. The various placement details for our programmes are available below:

Contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

• Advanced Administration / Every Wednesday
• Beauty Therapy/ Every Monday (first years) & Friday (second years)
• Childcare  QQI Level 5/ Every Tuesday
• Nursing / Healthcare/ Every Thursday
• Exercise Health and Well Being/to be arranged
• Warehousing and Distribution/to be arranged

Contact Deirdre O’Connor [email protected]

• Health Service Supervisory Management Skills QQI Level 6/ Monday & Wednesdays

Contact Laura Rainey [email protected]

• Business/ Every Friday
• Childcare Montessori QQI level 6/ Every Thursday and Friday
• Retail Practice/ Every Friday
• Security/ Every Friday
• Security Operations/to be arranged
• Tourism / Every Friday

Contact Lily Murphy [email protected]

• Community Development/ Flexible through evenings and Monday/Wednesday

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Suggest a project for our full time learners

We encourage employers to advertise vacancies within their organisation. These vacancies can be viewed by our current and past students. To advertise a vacancy, please download our recruitment form and complete the details.

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Suggest a project for our full time learners

On all  of our courses, learners are expected to complete a project relevant to the course they are completing. We welcome suggestions from local employers who can provide opportunities to our learners to engage in real life case studies or projects.

Tourism

Learners on this course would benefit from engaging with employers in the tourism and hospitality sector who could provide projects in relation to:

• Developing brochures for tourism attractions
• Developing marketing material
• Developing systems for tourism information outlets
• If you would like to engage with our students in a project please contact [email protected]

Advanced Administration

• Learners could engage with businesses in designing templates for office forms and other stationary, developing spreadsheets and databases for specific projects
• If you would like to engage with our students in a project please contact: [email protected]

Beauty Therapy

• In their second year learners engage in research in a specialised part of the beauty therapy course- they could link in with your research needs
• If interested  contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

Business

• Students could develop a simple web page for your organisation as part of their studies
• If interested contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

Childcare

• Our learners could help to test or monitor a new play activity in your facility
• If interested  contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

Childcare Montessori

• Our learners could help develop, test or improve materials for your Montessori childcare facility
• If interested contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

Community Development

• Your organisation could link with our learners in identifying needs, conducting a needs analysis or organising a specific event
• If interested contact Lily Murphy [email protected]

Nursing / Healthcare

• Our learners could help with a specific project in a care setting, monitoring or assessing a new methodology or researching best practice
• If interested contact Patricia Hurley [email protected]

Retail Practice

• A project on marketing, merchandising or customer service would benefit our learners
• Contact Laura Rainey if interested [email protected]

Security

• Researching a new development or piece of equipment for use in a security business could link with your needs for new ideas
• Contact Laura Rainey if interested [email protected]

Security Operations

• Developing staff rota templates or safety forms might be a useful project for our learners
• Contact Laura Rainey if interested [email protected]

Exercise Health and Well Being

• Research or evaluation of a particular exercise activity or piece of equipment might be useful to you and fulfil a project for our students
• Contact Laura Rainey if interested [email protected]

Warehousing and Distribution

• Designing of systems or templates for office management or a spreadsheet template might be a useful project for our learners
• Contact Laura Rainey if interested [email protected]

Health Service Supervisory Management Skills

• Our learners would benefit from engaging in a Health Promotion activity in a care setting
• Contact Deirdre O’Connor if interested [email protected]

Our Staff

Come in and speak to our learners

North Connaught College always welcome  guest lecturers to come in and speak to our learners. This typically involves a 1-hour slot where the employer volunteers their time to share their expertise with our learners. Please complete the form below if you are interested in sharing your knowledge and experience with our learners.