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DEVELOPING PEOPLE

Team Leader/Supervisor Apprenticeship Level 3

First line management training, for those new into management or wanting to move into a management position.

Operations or departmental Manager Level 5

For those who manage teams and/or projects who wish to gain formal management training or further develop their leadership and management skills, knowledge, and behaviours.

Senior Leader Level 7

For those who have responsibility for strategic leadership and direction relating to their area of work. The apprenticeship provides learning to further their skills, knowledge and behaviours within their role.

Faith Based Leadership Level 7

For those senior and emerging senior leaders from across a variety of faiths, from faith-based organisations and from governmental and non-governmental organisations that deal with faith-based issues as part of their everyday life.

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring

The ‘ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching’ course is designed for the delegate to learn the skills and structures to be able to coach to a high standard, during both planned and impromptu coaching sessions.

ILM L3 Certificate in Workplace Coaching

Learn key coaching skills and how to apply them. Understand how to manage coaching sessions and support colleagues. See how to bring coaching approaches to your everyday interactions with colleagues.

SVQ 4 Social Services & Healthcare (Scotland only)

Learners will gain an international recognised qualification which guarantees that they have the skills, knowledge and abilities required to carry out their role successfully.

SVQ in Care Services Leadership and Management (Scotland only)

This is a robust and certificated qualification which equips individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and values to enable them to take on the leadership and management challenges facing care services today.

Level 2 Award in Youth Work Principles

This qualification is an ideal way to ensure all those working with young people have the basics to ensure safe and effective practice.

Level 2 Award in Mentoring Practice

This qualification has been designed to help learners to develop effective mentoring skills and techniques and understand mentoring relationships.

Level 3 Diploma in Youth Work Practice

This qualification supports the skills and knowledge learners need to become a competent Youth Support Worker.

Level 4 Certificate in Professional Development

This qualification supports the skills and knowledge learners need to become a competent Youth Support Worker.

Level 4 Certificate in Professional Development (Youth Work Leadership and Management)

This qualification supports the skills and knowledge learners need to become a competent Youth Support Worker.

BA (Hons) Theology and Mission (children, youth and family ministry)

The programme offers a sound foundation in Christian theology and biblical studies alongside practical instruction and experience in mission and ministry.

Bachelors in Theology: Youth and Community

Designed to equip people for Youth and Community work in Christian settings and beyond, this programme is vital for the world we live in where young people and communities are facing unprecedented challenges.

BD (Hons) Theology with Pastoral Studies (Youth and Community)

This streams operates within the Bachelor of Divinity programme. While the core pathway equips students for church ministry and chaplaincy, this stream specifically considers youth ministry and community ministry. At it’s heart, this specialism aims to equip students for ministry within the community in novel and creative ways.

GLS

Get fresh, actionable leadership insights and encouragement from our world-class speakers on topics like innovation, creativity and collaboration.

HTB Leadership Conference

Leadership Conference 2025 will be live at the Royal Albert Hall on 5–6 May. Join us for a two-day experience of encounter, unity, and hope. LC25 will feature talks, worship, seminars, prayer events, labs, social spaces and more.

Children & Youth Conference

Annual gathering for anyone involved in children or youth work to be inspired, resourced and encouraged in their ministry.

Whole Life Discipleship Training

It is offered via the Frontline Conference, but in February it will be part of the Mission Conference. There are three streams: (1) Introduction (2) Whole-Life Preaching (3) Whole-Life Worship.

Refugee Response Forum

A monthly online community of practice for people working in, or interested in learning more about, refugee and asylum response.

Contact [email protected] to be added to the forum.

Children’s Leaders Network

A bi-monthly online gathering for sharing ideas, learning together, discussion and inspiration to support you in your ministry with children.

Communities of practice

Communities of Practice can accelerate professional development across an organisation, break down silos that exist, enable the sharing of knowledge and the building of better practice. They can also help build better teams and happier more motivated people. We can work with you in several ways; from delivering a workshop on what a Community of Practice is, to supporting you in the design and facilitating of a new Community of Practice.

ACCESSIBLE PROPHECY

Is a twelve month course of 24 x 1 hour sessions aiming to develop the prophetic gifting in individuals. This is done through small huddles of 3-4, giving teaching, practice and coaching in the prophetic.

For enquiries about Accessible Prophecy please email Andrea Vertigan (Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler) at [email protected]

Starfish School Mentoring Programme

A Salvation Army mentoring programme for primary and secondary schools. Training and resources are provided for mentors.

Coaching Programme

TSA’s Coaching programme provides a safe space to reflect and explore topics/ issues and next steps. The programme offers 6 x 1:1 coaching sessions with an internal, accredited coach who will provide support, encouragement, challenge and accountability to help you maximise your potential and achieve your goals.

Future Learn: Mentoring and Coaching in Professional Learning

Learn how to lead professional learning through effective mentoring and coaching, with The Open University.

PIONEER BITESIZE

Exploring the history, vision and pioneering movement of the Salvation Army.

It is an introduction to pioneering and the Salvation Army, how the SA started as a pioneering movement, how the SA is pioneering today and encouraging those doing the course to think what and how they could be pioneering.

Resilience & Well-being (for Managers)

Build healthy habits to manage stress and enhance well-being for you and your team.

Earning Trust (for Managers)

Develop this seemingly elusive skill that enables you and your team to achieve better, faster results.

Coaching

Guide your team members to build their skills and become more independent problem-solvers.

Seeing Potential

Look for each person’s potential, then create the opportunity that’s right for them.

A simple way to improve your whole team's wellbeing

You can’t control everything about your work environment, but you can take this step.

Leading a Hybrid/Remote Team

Build a high-trust team that communicates and collaborates well despite the distance.

Developing Your Team

Shape each team member’s role and responsibilities in a way that keeps them interested and growing.

Retaining Your Team

Ensure that your top performers remain happy, high-contributing team members.

Giving Feedback (for Managers)

Share timely, actionable feedback in a way that people feel good about acting on.

51% of the Vote

Multipliers are available for consultation and collaboration, but let team members know they are truly in charge, allowing them to take the lead with confidence.

Inclusive Leadership Part 2: Create Opportunity

Create opportunities to help every team member reach their full potential.

Which of your relationships needs more courage—or consideration?

When you show both high courage and high consideration, your relationships will be more balanced, effective, and rewarding. Here’s how to do it.

Coaching

Learn about the variety of coaching offerings available to increase results in one-on-one or group environments. A range of options are available for executive leaders and groups.

Understanding Grief

As we support the Bereaved, or if we are going through bereavement ourselves, this video course will give a clearer understanding of what is happening to them / to ourselves.

One to One Support Sessions

The aim of this short video course is to help you develop skills to assist others deal with incidents in their lives that can overwhelm them.

Pastoral Peer Debriefing Model

For Officers, employees and volunteers: The Debriefing model gives a regular opportunity to meet in a small group setting online or face to face. Providing a safe, confidential and comfortable session to reflect on the events of your week. It will support your resilience, embrace your feelings, emotions and an opportunity to learn and develop as you prioritise your wellbeing.

Managing Remote Teams

Managers are introduced to the virtual barriers to high performance and given some practical tips on how to use technology to overcome them. It’s broken into five sections focusing on cohesion, connectivity, cooperation, communication and culture. Each section has two major practical tips for managers.

Mentoring skills

This Mentoring skills course explains what mentoring is, and the roles that a mentor can take in the course of a mentoring relationship.

Coaching Skills

This Coaching skills course shows how to assess a learner’s needs, draw up a learning plan, assess competence and review progress.

Confidence and Motivation

This ‘Confidence & Motivation’ course is aimed at anyone wanting to understand more about how confidence and motivation can be affected and how they can be improved. The course will detail stages a person will go through to improve their confidence and motivation and also provide practical support and techniques to improve them.

Overcoming roadblocks and setting goals

This course will support individuals identify barriers or “roadblocks” that may be stopping them from entering employment and solutions on how to overcome those.

Regulation & Relating: Homelessness-Conference-2024

Meet our homelessness services teams and residents who explain how our trauma-informed care and services are making a difference.

The Principles of Trauma Informed Care: Homelessness-Conference-2024

Meet our homelessness services teams and residents who explain how our trauma-informed care and services are making a difference.

Trauma Informed Environments: Homelessness-Conference-2024

Meet our homelessness services teams and residents who explain how our trauma-informed care and services are making a difference.

Open Learning Course: Dementia (BSF13 or BSA7)

This course on dementia and spiritual care is written from a personal perspective. It aims to introduce you to dementia and begins to look at a community model of spiritual care.

Open Learning Course: What am I worth? (BSF14)

In this study you will be encouraged to explore what the Bible says about the worth of every human being. You will also be prompted to reflect on what difference this makes to our view of ourselves and other people.

Open Learning Course: Bereavement (BSF15)

This course is designed to help our understanding of loss and bereavement and its impact. It will also offer insight into how to support those affected by bereavement.

Open Learning Course: Leading a Prayer Meeting (F13)

This course introduces the essential elements required for leading a prayer meeting through from start to finish.

Open Learning Course: An introduction to Pastoral Care (F15)

This course aims to provide an introduction to the field of pastoral care. Throughout the 6 lessons it provides information, and asks for learner participation, in order to explore some historical, biblical and contemporary concepts which are also related to the learner’s personal experience and/or ministry. This course also considers vital aspects that surround the practice of providing pastoral care within a faith-based context, such as the possible dangers involved and how to develop good practice.

Open Learning Course: An Introduction to Christian Spiritual Formation (F16)

This course aims to introduce Christian Spiritual Formation. Throughout the 6 lessons it provides information, and asks for learner participation, to explore some historical, biblical, and contemporary concepts which are also related to the learner’s personal experience and/or ministry.

Open Learning Courses: Biblical Studies

Choose from a variety of different courses based on books, concepts and characters from the Old and New Testaments.

Open Learning Course: Exploring Christian heritage

This course aims to introduce you to the writing of people who have had an important influence on Christian spirituality over the centuries. You will also be encouraged to reflect on how what they have shared can help you in the development of your faith, and in supporting others on their faith journey.

Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers

The ‘Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers’ course aims to ensure that managers have the skills to coach their staff to higher performance in the workplace. On this course participants will share from experience, reflect on their practice, apply theory, and develop new practical skills.

Godly Play Core Training

This course enables you to understand the Godly Play method and apply its principles to nurture the spiritual development of children and adults.

PIONEER COACHING: COACHING FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS

(Keith Webb’s COACH model)
Coach training course teaching coaching skills and the COACH model. A fast paced practical course that goes in more depth than the 2 day course. Delivered in-person at Cliff College for a full five days.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This world renowned course highlights how using its transformational principles can help you move towards a more effective and meaningful work and personal life.

You will learn how to take initiative, balance key priorities, improve interpersonal communication, build creative collaboration, and apply principles for achieving a more balanced life.

Leading at the Speed of Trust

Leading at the Speed of Trust helps leaders strengthen their trust signals to convert trust taxes into trust dividends and propel their team further, faster.

The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team

This solution equips first-level leaders with the essential skills and tools to get work done with and through other people.

Trauma-Informed Training for Volunteers

Training developed by ATMS Integrated Mission focusing on responding to the needs of vulnerable people who we meet in the corps setting.

Changing Seasons

Modular year long course to equip people for ministry with older people. Also helps prepare officers for retirement.

Digging Deeper

This course is designed to outline symptoms & theoretical approaches to Dementia, and to develop an appropriate local pastoral response to Dementia. It is also to understand the workings of the UK Social Care system and to explore practical and pastoral responses in local settings.

Raise: Children’s Leaders Training

This course is designed to equip all prospective volunteer children’s leaders for their work with children, with other leaders, and with families within a Salvation Army context; and to provide learners with a taste of what it is like to work in the field of children’s leadership.

An Introduction to Pastorally Supporting LGBTQ+ Young People

This training session is designed to equip youth leaders with knowledge and information to engage with young people around identity and gender and to be able to offer loving, compassionate and inclusive pastoral support to LGBTQ+ young people in the church and wider community.

Mindset: Resilience Training

An online course for anyone working with children and young people which explores trauma, attachment theory, ACEs and much more.

Dying Matters

Journeying home roadshow events to equip people with the skills to have difficult discussions around death and bereavement. This part of the journeying home roadshow so is an internal course also delivered by OPM and last year was done in collaboration with Keith Burr (Chaplaincy).

Neurodiversity Awareness for Managers

Designed for managers, senior leaders and your existing teams that want to increase their awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace.

Let's talk about Addiction

This is an Addiction Specific Course.

Please book through the Addiction Development Officers (ADO’s).

Trauma informed approach

This course is about understanding the impact of trauma, poor attachment and ACEs – we deliver these across Depts. and corps and we touch on this area in causes to do with child development for C&Y.

Please book through the Addiction Development Officers (ADO’s).

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

This is an introductory course to understand the principles of CBT.

Please book through the Addiction Development Officers (ADO’s).

Cultural Competence

This course covers issues of prefudice, discrimination and bias toward various cultural groups and how we can move toward a culturally competent approach.

Please book through the Addiction Development Officers (ADO’s).

Bespoke Messy Church Training

Delivered in person or online based on Messy Churches own Masterclass Training, but targeted at local SA settings.

Elderhood, End of Life and Singing by Heart

Supporting cadets in their knowledge of older people and those living with dementia to equip them with knowledge once they receive an appointment.

Dementia Awareness

Exploring dementia.

Contact [email protected]

Mental Health First Aid (Youth)

Youth MHFA course is a practical skills and awareness course designed to equip learners with the skills and confidence to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues, and provide support and signposting to self-help, or professional services.

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid for Adults course is a practical skills and awareness course designed to equip learners with the skills and confidence to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues, and provide support and signposting to self-help, or professional services.

Principles of Trauma Informed Practice

Delegates are provided with evidence-based information on the prevalence and impact of trauma on services users; allowing staff to consider how to safely and compassionately support service users with trauma histories, within their role and service setting.

The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership

The purpose of The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership work session is to equip mid- to senior-level leaders with the essential mindsets and skillsets to lead more effectively. It will equip leaders to: Inspire Trust, Create Vision, Execute Strategy, and Coach Potential—and by so doing, engage their team to consistently help the organization achieve its most important results.

Foundations: Pastoral Practice

This unit on Foundations: Pastoral Practice provides students with an introduction to pastoral theology and enables students to identify and develop practices of pastoral care.

A Trauma Sensitive Approach to Children’s, Youth and Family Ministry

In this course, we will explore what is meant by the term ‘trauma’ as we unpack some core principles of what it means to bring a trauma sensitive approach to the way we work with children, young people and families.

Discipleship with Children & Young People

A LIVE online course journeying into what it means to obey the commandment of Jesus to go into all the world and make disciples.

Pastoral Support, Mentoring and Supervision

This course explores how you can develop our pastoral skills as you lead others – whether you are involved in mentoring, line management or offering professional supervision.

Introduction to Participation

This course is all about understanding how to include young people in decision-making. We’ll explore ways to make sure their opinions don’t just get heard but make a positive impact.

Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice

In this short course, we delve into the impact of trauma and its far-reaching implications on our mental and emotional well-being.

Supporting Young People who are Not in Employment, Education or Training

This course focuses on how youth work can support young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) and those who are most at risk of not successfully transitioning to employment, education and training, more specifically young people who have been excluded from school.

Young People’s Transition to Independence

In this short course, we delve into the essential skills required to effectively support and collaborate with young people during their transition to independence.

Youth Work Pro: Developing Your Skill Set

This is a collection of 3 courses to develop your skill set to deliver activities about literacy, numeracy and life skills with young people.

Training & Equipping Others for Children’s, Youth & Family Ministry

This will help you to be clear on your aims and objectives in the task of leading a team and will alert you to some of the complexities of team dynamics, helping you to lead your ministry more faithfully and effectively.

PIONEER ASSESSMENT

The Pioneer Assessment affirms an individual’s journey and desire to pioneer. It also ascertains what kind/type of pioneer they are.

(The pioneer assessment process is outlined in the Pioneer & FX Guidebook). Delivered online via Zoom or Teams. One full day with some pre-assessment preparation and work required.

For enquiries about a Pioneer Assessment, please have a conversation with your DHQ rep or email the Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler at [email protected]

Happy Families

A set of interactive discussion cards that introduce you to a variety of families and family life events. They will enable church groups to explore what family means, challenge stereotypes, celebrate diversity, encourage belonging within the church family and consider pastoral responses to families.

Order your pack including instructions from [email protected]