Learn new skills and find support
Here, you’ll find helpful online courses to build your skillset, upcoming Sue Ryder training sessions and bereavement advice if you are coping with grief.
Digital skills, interviews and your CV
Digital
- Learn My Way offer basic computer skills courses. These include how to search and explore the internet, keep in touch with email and use public services online. You can also find courses on office programmes, social media and video calling.
- Google Digital Garage provides free online training courses to help people improve their digital skills, including career development, digital marketing and data.
- Microsoft 365 Training helps you learn the basics of their different Office software, such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Interviews and CVs
- The National Career’s Services ‘How to write a CV’ information page shows you how to structure your CV and what to include.
- Reed offer a range of free interview skills courses, as well as other online job skills webinars.
- The National Careers Service also have lots of helpful interview tips and advice, such as types of interview, questions you might get asked and how to prepare.
- Barclays Life Skills features a handy 10 step guide on how to prepare for an interview.
Other free online courses
Free Courses in England provide lots of free online courses, from mental health to digital skills, where you can gain a qualification and improve your employability.
Whether you’re looking to get back into work or interested in starting a new career path, we have a range of learning and development opportunities available to you as a Sue Ryder volunteer.
Sue Ryder training and webinars
If you need further information about training courses and webinars, or would like to book yourself onto an upcoming course, please email the Learning and Development team at learningteam@sueryder.org
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
While there will be opportunities during these sessions to ask questions and get involved if you would like to do so, please also feel free just to come along and listen – you will not be asked to speak or turn your camera on unless you want to.
Upcoming EDI Masterclasses
- Valuing Difference - Tuesday 4th June, 9.00am to midday. This session is an introduction to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and why they are important.
Recorded sessions
- LGBTQ+ History session
- LGBTQ+ Awareness masterclass
- Unconscious Bias masterclass
- Inclusive Language masterclass
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion webinar
- Tackling Excluding Behaviour webinar
- Black History Month talk with Rob Neil OBE
- Micro-aggressions webinar
- United for Inclusion: a team approach to fostering an inclusive workplace