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Diploma ( PLEASE NOTE there will be no in take in september 2010 )

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Diploma In Counselling - BACP Accredited

The COMPASS Diploma in Counselling provides a rigorous, three year training course for those wishing to become volunteer counsellors with COMPASS.

• Outline of Diploma course content

To apply for the course, you should:

• have completed 36 hours training "Intermediate Certificate in Introduction to Counselling Concepts", COMPASS or equivalent.
• be committed to personal and professional development.
• be resident in, or around, the Merseyside area.
• have experience, paid or voluntary, of working with people in a "helping" role.

The Foundation year

This trains people to use a good level of counselling skills to complement their existing paid or voluntary work, but without having the formal role of counsellor. It also aims to provide a foundation on which to build the further two diploma years.

The Foundation Year can be taken alone, but completion of the Foundation Year does not confer any qualification to practice as a counsellor.

Years 2 & 3

Aim to train competent counsellors, able to demonstrate a level of knowledge, skills and personal and professional development needed for counselling.

Course programme

Foundation Year : 3 x 12 weekly terms (approx 160 hours). This includes weekly training sessions, workshop days, and non-residential weekends, and private study.

Years 2 & 3 : As Foundation Year, plus 120 hours of supervised counselling practice.

Course methods

Students are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and development on the course. Students are encouraged to draw on their own life and work experience as well as the course, to develop their counselling practice. Theory, practice and personal development are all assessed in this course.

Tutors & fees

All COMPASS tutors are fully qualified, experienced counsellors. The fees are competitive, and include all tuition, residential and non-residential weekends and workshop days, and all supervision.

Why choose the COMPASS diploma?

• COMPASS offers the unique opportunity to train within an active counselling organisation, and be trained by practising counsellors.
• COMPASS offers all trainees the opportunity to practise their counselling skills on a voluntary basis during their second and third years, and after completion.
• COMPASS includes in the price, the cost of a counselling placement and all supervision needed for the completion of the course.
• The COMPASS Diploma has B.A.C. P. accreditation and qualifies you to counsel both inside and outside COMPASS.

How to apply

• Application form
• Equal opportunites policy

Applicants must complete an application form and statement. Following this, a shortlist will be drawn up. Shortlisted applicants will then be asked to attend an interview. References will also be needed.