Courses in Northern Ireland
Currently colleagues in Northern Ireland are invited to apply for courses in England.
Should you be unable to find a course to suit please feel free to contact the training team at training@ucu.org.uk.

H&S 1 - induction: (health & safety role and functions) June 2024
This course forms the first part of UCU's health and safety training programme. This course is for new health and safety reps, those who have been in the role sometime but have never been trained, along with those in the branch who want to further understand the role, and legislation that enables health and safety reps to hold institutions to account.

H&S 2 - organising and bargaining for health and safety: March 2024
This course is for those who have completed the UCU H&S 1 course and wish to extend their H&S knowledge around organising and bargaining. The course will help you learn how to involve members along with developing bargaining strategies to win better H&S conditions for members.

Job evaluation: A collective approach, January 2024
This one day course is for branch reps and activists who are involved and interested in learning more about the importance of trade union involvement and representation in job evaluation schemes. The focus of the course will be around the use of collective action wherever possible.

Representing individual members: An introduction to casework. 18 January 2024, Leeds - National course
This is a course for reps who are new to representing individual members or those who are considering becoming more involved in the direct representation of individual members. Those who have been practicing for some time may also find this course to be a useful refresher of best practice. If you are not a rep, but want to learn more about what it takes to represent individual members then the course is for you.

Representing individual members: an introduction to casework - June 2024
This is a course for reps who are new to representing individual members or those who are considering becoming more involved in the direct representation of individual and groups of members. Those who have been practicing for some time may also find this course to be a useful refresher of best practice.

Understanding and handling media: February 2024
This is a course is for branch reps who are interested in learning more about handling both print and social media. The course will be taught by a member of the National Union of Journalists with support from UCU Press office.

Workload rep training 2: Workload campaign in action, inspections and investigations - 7, February, 2024, Online
This short course is open to UCU activists and reps who want to build upon their knowledge of workload as a health and safety hazard in the workplace. The UCU workload campaign gives us the tools to tackle increasing workloads and working hours. The failure of employers to protect staff from excessive workloads and stress is damaging our health, our students' education, and our ability to organise to defend ourselves and our sector In this course you will work through practical examples and explore ideas around how to use the safety rep functions to identify and reduce excessive workloads.
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