If you’ve applied to start a course with us this September, keep an eye on your emails. We’ll be inviting you to an enrolment session during the week commencing 24th August.
When you attend your enrolment session, you’ll receive your Induction Week timetable, so you’ll know what to expect when you start college. Induction Week begins Wednesday 2nd September.
During Induction Week, you’ll meet your tutors, get settled into college and receive your timetable for the rest of the academic year. We’re looking forward to welcoming all our new and returning learners and getting the new college year started!
Supported Internship
Course Description
The Supported Internship programme mainly occurs in the workplace, helping learners to gain a multitude of skills in a real life work environment.
Learners are using the skills, knowledge and behaviours previously gained and applying them in a range of external businesses, and in their transition into independence. Learners will develop their employability skills, independence, health and wellbeing, and independent travel and getting to know their local community. The one-year course will profoundly focus on careers, regional employment needs and applying for realistic work opportunities.
The course is designed so that learners will experience meaningful work placements in external businesses within the community. The students attend college one day a week for tutoring, where they engage in classroom and practical based activities. The fundamentals of this programme are to develop workplace skills, to ensure learners are ready for work and independent living. They will develop solutions to challenges, learn how to deal with conflict, develop communication skills, and develop professional manners and behaviours.
Entry requirements
Learners on this programme must be able to travel independently. To study this course you must also have an EHCP.
Costs
This course is free for students aged 16 or over but under 19 on 31 August 2026. For adults (aged 19+) this course is partially funded by the Government, depending on circumstances you may be eligible for full funding. To be eligible for funding, you must be a UK resident or have lived in the country for three or more years. Find out more here
What next?
Learners will have had the opportunity to develop a good work ethic, a range of employability skills, and will be able to transfer skills learned into a wide range of work settings; the end goal being paidemployment or volunteer work.
Apply for this course
If you would like to apply online for this course, please click below and you’ll be taken to our application portal. If you need any guidance about your choices before applying, email admissions@lcwc.ac.uk or call 01946 839300.