Health and Social Care SVQ and Professional Training

Training options

We offer a range of professional qualifications to meet registration requirements and enable support workers, practitioners and managers to progress on their chosen careers. We also offer continuous professional learning opportunities to refresh knowledge and to build skills.

Our courses can be delivered on campus, at your work place or virtually via MS Teams or online open learning packages.

SVQ qualifications

Many of our courses are designed to meet the registration requirements of the Scottish Social Services Council.

The SVQ courses we currently deliver in Health & Social Care are:

• SVQ 2 Health & Social Care SCQF Level 6 -This qualification is suitable for people who are support workers in care home services who wish to obtain a formal qualification.
• SVQ 3 Social Services & Healthcare SCQF Level 7 - This qualification is suitable for people who are employed in the health and social care sector in a supervisory role
• SVQ 4 Social Services and Healthcare SCQF Level 9 - This qualification is suitable for people who are employed in the health and social care sector in a senior and/or management role.
• SVQ Services Leadership and Management SCQF 10 - This qualification is suitable for those people who have a management role in a care service.

Bespoke Professional Training

Edinburgh College serves professionals looking for qualifications to progress within their chosen career but we also offer customised training programmes tailored specifically to your business requirements.

Customised Learning includes:

• Digital Skills for Health Sector
• First Aid Training
• A range of Mental Health courses
• Workplace Mentoring in Care Sector
• Report Writing and Communications Skills in Healthcare
• Stoma Care Awareness
• Medical Terminology courses