Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

Course overview:
This 1¾ hour session gives a complete overview of the work of the IWT
in helping the residents of Portsmouth keep well, stay independent and active in the community. The session covers our team purpose, approach, ways of working and client group(s).

Target Audience: 

All staff, volunteers and community organisations and members working with people who are living independently within their community or those who have the capacity to regain the ability to do so.

Course overview:

Cultural awareness is essential for anybody working with the diverse community in Portsmouth. This course provides an overview of ethnic minority demographics within Portsmouth and an introduction to larger communities and their culture.

Participants will gain insight into people from other cultures enhancing their self-awareness and develop their confidence in working with people from different backgrounds. The course also explores some of the barriers ethnic minority communities face when accessing services, ideas on how to overcome these and aspects of mental health and wellbeing within different cultures.

Target audience:

Front line staff, volunteers and community leaders working with diverse communities within Portsmouth

Please note this is not a bookable course.  Click this link to visit the eLearning page to access the courses described below:

Skill Boosters are a collection of e-learning course giving practical advice in the workplace using video technology. The videos are dramatised and also include lived experience.

Each learning ranges from between 15 minutes to an hour long.

Titles include:

Making Teams Work

Emotional Intelligence

Wellbeing (Managing Stress)

Micro Behaviours

Benter in the Workplace 

To access Skills Booster e-learning please visit the e-learning section of PLG.