Friday 12 June 2020

Naval Families Federation employment and training


June is all about employment and training opportunities available to Royal Navy & Royal Marines families. This week, we are focusing on training opportunities available to you:SMS Spouses is a training programme offered by the BFBS Academy. It's the UK’s first free online social media training programme for the spouses/partners of full-time HM Forces personnel: https://sms.bfbs.com/

Launched by Amazon Web Services AWS re/Start is a training and job placement programme for the UK to educate spouses/partners, on the latest software development and cloud computing technologies: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/

The NHS 'Returning to Nursing’ (Scotland & Wales: Returning to Practice) programme aims to support 'lapsed' staff in renewing their registration and re-entering the organisation. Returnees will be able to apply to receive a bursary. Visit the NHS website in your region for more information. (Also see Homeport Spring '20, p.58: nff.org.uk/homeport-magazine)

Join Microsoft at their webinars to learn more about their Cloud platform. Topics include: getting started with Azure, key cloud concepts and core services, and more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/events/training-days/#microsoft-365

Full list of discounted/ free training courses can be found here: ForcesFamiliesJobs.co.uk