The Royal Society For Public Health Announces It Will Be Delivering Training Sessions

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Article Date: 11 Jun 2009 - 3:00 PDT

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The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) announces it will be delivering training sessions for the RSPH Level 1 Health Awareness and the RSPH Level 2 Understanding Health Improvement awards.

Are your colleagues feeling tired and unmotivated? Is your work environment getting you down?

Do you want to find out how you might make a difference to the health of friends, colleagues and those in your community?

Well, good news: healthcare is changing.

Healthcare is no longer about just treating illness; it is an opportunity to promote good health. The workplace is not just about a job; it is also an opportunity for health improvement.

With so much media attention on healthy eating, quitting smoking and losing weight, most people are more aware than ever about the ways in which they need to improve their health. A working environment is the perfect place to equip people for this task and to provide support, information and advice on how to change to a healthier lifestyle.

Choosing Health, the Government's strategy for healthcare, sets out a new vision for our society, where people can get practical support to make healthy lifestyle choices for themselves. Both the Level 1 and the Level 2 awards will give your staff a firm foundation in providing health information and enable them to perform better in their day to day jobs. The awards are part of the Qualifications and Credit Framework and mapped to National Occupational Standards, Skills for Health competencies and the Public Health Skills and Career Framework to support learners in their career progression. Assessed by simple multiple choice question tests, successful candidates are awarded RSPH certificates. These two simple awards also have much to offer as tools for those concerned in realising work-life balance. Additionally, the awards are an ideal stepping stone towards training for a full Health Trainer role.

The RSPH will be delivering training for the awards at our offices on the 3rd Floor of Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall, London, SW8 5NQ.

The RSPH Health Awareness Level 1 Programme will be delivered on 26th August The RSPH Understanding Health Improvement Level 2 Programme will be delivered on 27th August.

These unique awards are 10 hour programmes that allow flexibility in their delivery to accommodate local health issues and be tailored to your group needs.

Places are expected to fill up fast so please book early. Visit www.rsph.org.uk.

The Royal Society for Public Health is an independent, multi-disciplinary organisation, dedicated to the promotion and protection of collective human health and well-being. Through advocacy, mediation, empowerment, knowledge and practice we advise on policy development, provide education and training services, encourage scientific research, disseminate information and certify products, training centres and processes.

Over 100,000 students take our qualifications each year in food hygiene, salon hygiene, pest control, health & safety, nutrition, the built environment, meat inspection, health and emergency planning.

We provide qualifications which are directly relevant to the workplace and we help people to progress through their chosen career by offering qualifications at different levels. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is also an awarding body recognised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). We have a network of over 1500 training centres throughout the UK. We provide a wide range of course material including syllabuses, sample exam answers

The RSPH is an independent charity formed in October 2008 with the merger of the Royal Society of Health (RSH) and the Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH). The RSPH has a Royal Charter and Her Majesty The Queen is our Patron.

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