Getting work can make a life-changing difference to refugees and migrants.
Employment offers more than just financial stability—it can provide dignity, purpose, and a sense of belonging. A job helps refugees and migrants rebuild their lives and integrate into new communities. It boosts confidence and provides opportunities to improve English and learn new skills.
For many, work brings routine, social connection, and hope for a better future. It enables individuals to support their families, both in the UK and abroad, and for many, to move forward from the trauma and disruption they’ve experienced.
SLC courses are designed to give refugees and migrants both the language skills and the confidence to get a job that matches their skills, experience and ambition.
We offer both general employability and vocation-specific courses in healthcare, social care, accountancy and finance, business and marketing, and safety-related work in construction, warehousing and factories.
We start with the learners. We carry out needs analysis and level assessment, so we understand where learners are currently at and where they want to go. This allows us to map the journey they need to go on and design a curriculum that meets their needs.
Once the course starts, there is inbuilt flexibility to meet new needs as they emerge and to evolve the course to meet specific objectives.
For lower-level learners, courses will need focus on core language – communication, vocabulary, grammar, function, skills – sometimes starting with the very basics. This allows learners to build a foundation in English from which they can develop more employability-specific language skills.
For higher-level learners at Entry Level 3 and above, courses target specific areas of need. These may range from job applications to interview preparation to CV building to digital skills, such as working with software suites and using LinkedIn. Courses may also focus on developing workplace communication skills, navigating fast speech, idioms and accents.
Business English and Communication Skills
This course equips learners with the language and confidence to thrive in business environments. They acquire essential workplace vocabulary, learn how to write effective emails and reports, and develop persuasive presentation techniques. They’ll also learn to navigate meetings, negotiate effectively, and handle challenging conversations with clarity and sensitivity. Using real-world scenarios and practical exercises, learners build fluency in the language of business — from small talk to high-stakes communication.
English for Accountancy and Finance
On this course, learners acquire the language skills they need to work in accountancy and finance, and pass the exams which enable them to re-enter the profession they were trained for in their home country. The course includes essential terminology, documents, professional writing, workplace communication, analysing case studies and preparing financial reports
English for Safety
This course provides essential language and communications skills to make sure overseas workers in construction sites, warehouses, logistics, factories and waste management facilities stay safe. The course covers 20 areas of safety, from hazards to PPE to manual handling, fire, electrics, working at height, machinery, hazardous substances and much more.
English for Healthcare
SLC works with refugee and migrant doctors, nurses, dentists and allied health professionals to improve their professional language and communication skills. Courses are tailored to learners’ needs, and can include communicating more effectively with colleagues, patients and their families, developing medical and everyday idiomatic language, and writing and presenting accurately. We also prepare candidates for the OET and IELTS exams.
Here’s a flyer for an example course – Medical Communication Skills – for a group of mixed refugee healthcare professionals wanting to practise and build confidence in clinical communication.
English for Social Care
This course enables overseas social carers to communicate safely and effectively with care service users in a variety of settings – from care homes to supported living to at-home domiciliary care. The course targets important everyday conversations from introductions to talking about food and drink, personal care, mobility, pain, pressure area care, falls and mental health. Learners build both vital communication skills and confidence.
SLC courses take place online. There are very good reasons for this:
Research shows that teaching quality is the single most important in-school factor influencing learner outcomes.
Online classes resolve issues of poor public transport, childcare commitments, and health or other issues that keep learners at home.
Learn from any location on schedules that match learner availability. Courses work on all devices.
Learning from a familiar or private space reduces anxiety.
Participating in online classes helps learners build confidence in using digital tools, skills they can then transfer to life outside the classroom.
Multimedia content, interactive tasks, no hiding in the back row.
Consistently excellent feedback from hundreds of learners and repeat contracts from refugee support organisations such as Strategic Migration Partnerships, across the UK.
Courses are designed to meet the many budgetary constraints refugee support organisation face. If the value wasn’t there, there’s no way we would have delivered so many courses to our clients across the UK since 2018.
Please get in touch to discuss how we can support your learners. We would love to hear from you.
