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This course aims to provide new Finance Assistants, Bursars and Business Managers an understanding of FMS and how to apply this to daily procedures, i.e. purchase orders, processing deliveries, recording and paying invoices with BACs or cheques, etc. We recommend that new Bursars and Business Managers attend both day 1 and day 2.

The training booklet will be emailed to you a week prior to the course, please remember to bring this with you.

There is no scheduled lunch break but you are welcome to bring food with you and eat it during the course.

The course is scheduled to run from 9.30 until 14.00. However, there is the availability of a Q&A session afterwards for questions specific to your school once the main training session has finished.

This course raises awareness of the political environment and decision making processes in East Sussex County Council. It explores the broader political environment in which we work and live. Interactive exercises focus on the varied roles of elected Councillors (Members) and explore the relationship between Members and officers.

The course will cover:

• Legionella – what is it?
• Legislation
• Policy
• Scenarios
• Monitoring and inspection requirements
• Risk Assessment Survey
• Training procedure
• Water sampling
• Questions

How do you come across? What effect do you have on those around you?

Your Personal Impact has a major influence on your life, whether from within yourself, how you work with others and how others affect you. This positive, inspiring and very interactive, practical one day workshop explores techniques to enable you to
come across with the impact you need to staff, colleagues and customers and important contacts. It will help you to think differently about your own
behaviour and identify ways to build strong relationships with others.

You will need to be prepared to analyse your own impact as well as understand the feedback from others, raising yourself-awareness about how you come across, and what you need to know about other people in order to have the positive impact you want on them.

This course aims to provide Bursars and Business Managers an more detailed understanding of FMS. This course covers the accounts structure, fund and budget allocations, Bank Processes, Journals, VAT and audit reports. We recommend that Bursars and Business Managers attend both day 1 and day 2.

The training booklet will be emailed to you a week prior to the course, please remember to bring this with you.

There is no scheduled lunch break but you are welcome to bring food with you and eat it during the course.

The course is scheduled to run from 9.30 until 14.00. However, there is the availability of a Q&A session afterwards for questions specific to your school once the main training session has finished.

The aim of the training is to inform delegates of the legal requirements for the safe management of asbestos.

This course will provide information on the risks associated with asbestos, and enable delegates to implement suitable and sufficient management systems, to ensure compliance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.

There is particular reference to the duty holder and who that could be, the surveys available, what to expect in a survey and the asbestos management plan and its use and requirement.

This course is designed to help you produce effective agendas and minutes, also to identify solutions to the difficulties you may have encountered in preparing either type of document.

This course covers general report writing and letter writing skills. You will learn about the structure and layout of reports and letters as well as understand the development steps you will use to write a report or letter. The course also covers how to use the correct tone in report and letter writing as well as identifying common grammar, spelling and punctuation errors and finally takes a look at how to proofread your writing effectively.

This one day workshop has been developed to give managers and staff the tools, techniques and time to practice the skills in order to be more efficient, think of new ideas, and eliminate waste, using creative thinking techniques.

Time pressures impact our work and personal lives as we aim to achieve higher levels of performance with less resource (time) to achieve it. The ability to manage time is an essential skill for effective people. Time management is not about cramming more work into your day, it is about doing better work, with less stress and knowing you have achieved what you set out to do.