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 case studies
bursary scheme
Natalie Liversidge is a Health and Safety
Training Assistant for the Hamelin Trust in Essex. The
Hamelin Trust works to support people with learning
disabilities and their families. Natalie’s current role is
in the Training Department and involves visiting the Trust’s
projects and services, providing risk assessments, manual
handling training and supporting other health and safety
training within the organisation.
Natalie applied for the Engage and Enable bursary because
she wanted to be able to develop her training role. She
undertook the Preparing to Teach in the Life Long Learning
Sector (PTLLS) qualification for people wishing to work with
adults in a learning environment: an ideal qualification for
a trainer in a voluntary organisation, but one for which she
would have had to wait a long time, without the benefit of
the Engage and Enable bursary, as budgets everywhere are
under pressure – especially training budgets.
Natalie was keen to undertake the PTLLS qualification
because she wanted to be able to teach health and safety
training to others.
The qualification has meant that Natalie is now able to
support the Hamelin Trust’s training department more
effectively, by training other people within the trust to
undertake their own risk assessments, as well as being able
to undertake more general health and safety training,
including fire safety.
Natalie says that she’s now much more confident in her role,
because the PTLLS course has enabled her to develop her own
teaching style, content and session plans. She also feels
that she has learned how to get the training across to her
trainees better. In addition, as a result of her new
understanding of the range of learning styles, Natalie can
now use her teaching to work to trainees’ strengths ensuring
that they get the most out of their learning.
Natalie has recently run a risk assessment course within the
Hamelin Trust, and the course feedback has been fantastic!
Her trainees feel more confident and have a better
understanding of how to fill in the appropriate forms, as
well as having a more rounded understanding of the relevant
issues, regulations and legislation.
The Hamelin Trust, Natalie’s employer, has also benefited
from the bursary: Natalie now takes an even more active role
within the training department, taking some of the pressure
off colleagues at a time when the demand for health and
safety training is constantly increasing. This has increased
the organisations capacity to deliver training.
Having completed the PTLLS qualification, Natalie now hopes
to be able to go on to complete the NEBOSH (National
Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health)
qualification, in order to offer even more in-depth training
within the organisation, as well as training Trust managers
to cascade health and safety information throughout the
organisation.
Natalie would definitely recommend the Engage and Enable
Bursary Scheme to anyone thinking about applying – and
describes it as an “Absolutely brilliant way to help fund a
qualification”.
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