Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan Volunteers Course -

Salford: Feb 26

Hello!

Congratulations on being invited to complete the Volunteers Preparation Course.

As you know, you will be required to complete 6 online training modules, alongside attending face to face training sessions.

The face to face training will be held 9.30- 2.30 pm on:

Thursday 5th February

Thursday 26th February

The venue for the course is:  Leigh Miner Rangers Rugby Club, Kirby Rd, Leigh WN7 4EF

Refreshments (tea/coffee) and a light lunch will be provided by Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan each afternoon.  If you have any special dietary requirements, please can you inform us prior to the course and we will do our best to accommodate.  All necessary stationery will be provided.

Prior to attending each training session you will be required to complete some online learning (details and links provided below).

Can I also remind you to access our online documents website at https://intranet.hsts.org.uk/  where you will find our key policies. As explained during interview, you will be required to read all these policies by the last session of the training where you will hand your policy checklist sheet in signed.

Your login details are,

username: hstsuser

password: home5tart.

Click on ‘Volunteer Policies’ and ‘Adopted Policies’.

Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan would like to thank you for your interest in becoming a home visiting volunteer and we hope that you enjoy the preparation course. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best Wishes,

The Home-Start Team

Please register below for our online learning platform:

Click on https://account.mblseminars.com/MyMBL/PartnerEnrolment and click on ‘Register now’

Enter the following Passcode (required at registration only):  272367

You will then be prompted to enter your details

Please then click ‘Enrole’

You will then receive an email asking you to verify your email address.

Please click on the link within the email and set your password.

You only need to do this the first time.

For subsequent visits you can just go to https://account.mblseminars.com/mymbl/loginstandard and sign in using your email and password.

Any problems at all registering, please do not hesitate to contact one of the team.

You will find all the modules in the ‘Available Courses’ section, you will then click on the ‘+’ sign at the side of each title which will move them to the ‘My Courses’ section until you complete them. Once completed they will move to the ‘Completed Courses’ section. PLEASE DISREGARD THE MODULES WITH ‘DAD MATTERS’ IN THE TITLE.

As explained at your interview, you are required to complete online training modules to compliment the face to face training.

Before the first face to face training session, please complete:

Module 1 Family Support – Be part of it!

Module 2 Confidentiality

Module 3 Safeguarding

Before day two of the face to face training:

Module 4 Mental Health

Module 5 Domestic Abuse Awareness

Module 6 Keeping Safe and Staying In Touch

At the end of each module, there is a ‘Feedback’ section asking about the module you have completed. Please can you take the time to complete these as we ensure that any questions you have are covered on the ‘face to face’ training days.

Please be aware that each module varies in time it will take you to complete.

You can leave and come back to a module at any time if you need a break or want to come back to it on a different day, it will remember your place on the module.

Modules 3 (Safeguarding) and Module 5 (Domestic Abuse Awareness) are both quite emotive and difficult modules, please take a break as and when you need to and please do not feel like you need to complete them all in one go. Staff are here to support you throughout your training and are on hand to answer any questions or concerns you may have whilst completing the modules.

You can re-visit all the modules as many times as you like, before, during and after your training.

Please take care when completing the modules, that you complete each section thoroughly and complete the feedback section at the end of each module answering all the questions.

You should receive a certificate which you can download and print off after you have completed each module, if this doesn’t happen, it means you haven’t completed the module in full.

We will be setting up the ‘WhatsApp’ group before the course starts so we can keep in contact with you and you with us. In the meantime, please contact us if you have any problems accessing the modules or questions whilst completing them.

We hope you enjoy them!

Please complete MBL modules 1,2 and 3

https://account.mblseminars.com/mymbl/loginstandard

Time: 9.30am- 2.30pm

Reminder

If you haven't already, now is the time to bring the following to the final training session, on Thursday 25th Feb

• Volunteer Charter

• DBS

• Car Documents/ information