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...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
Brand new City & Guilds Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice has arrived at SVT
BRAND NEW COURSE ...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
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. ...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
Congratulations to Cheryl Watson who has successfully completed her Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
Our Leadership and Management Assessor Cheryl Wa...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
We are delighted to welcome Dylan Woods who has become a new member of the team at SVT
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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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
Introducing the latest newbie!
As part of SVT's recent growth plans, it was decided that the time had come to b...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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. ...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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?...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
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 ...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article
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...Read The Article