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Do you like a personal challenge? Stand out from the crowd with our public services courses.
If you feel passionate about helping those in your community or further afield and you enjoy adventurous activities as part of a close-knit team, a career in the public services could be right up your street!
Our courses are designed to prepare you for entry into the public services sector and will give you the experience, the determination and the fitness levels you’ll require.
We’ll help you to develop your communication, leadership and teamworking skills and give you an understanding of our legal systems and how legislation is applied to current global situations.
If your future lies in helping others, our public services courses could be the gateway to a challenging and hugely rewarding career!
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Betty Evans
Current job role: Special Constable with Cheshire Constabulary
Previous courses: Level 3 Extended Diploma in Public Services; Community Policing and Criminal Investigations degree with University of Chester
“Public services is a course recognised by the police force and officers within Cheshire Police have links with Reaseheath’s public services department.
“My course helped me to progress in my career choice. I learned so much from my tutors and after I graduated they were there to advise me. They offered assistance with my university application and helped me to get onto the course I always wanted to do.”
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Why study?
Why study Public Services at Reaseheath?
Receive tailormade fitness training in our high specification gym to prepare you for entry into the uniformed services.
Gain invaluable advice from industry professionals such as police dog handlers, prison officers and custom and excise personnel.
You may have the opportunity to learn about the impact of war and conflict on a study tour to Europe.
Enjoy adventurous training activities such as bushcraft, land navigation and rock climbing.
Be involved with a police video training exercise, get plastered with mud during a residential Army taster camp and join a simulated house fire search at our local fire and rescue services HQ.
Go behind-the-scenes at the Houses of Parliament and take part in law making workshops; visit Safety Central and experience how prisons work.
Career
Where could your career take you?
Many of our students go on to have successful careers in the Police, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Marines and in the prison service. Your course is also a springboard to higher level study and you could progress onto our Higher National Diploma in Public Services here at University Centre Reaseheath.
If you’re planning your next steps, there are plenty of exciting career options in the public services sector waiting for you:
- Armed services
- HM customs
- Police
- Fire and rescue
- Prison service
- Paramedics
- Forensic science
- Criminologist
Experience
Your Reaseheath experience
You will get access to valuable work experience with our industry partners through taster activities, and residential courses.
You’ll also receive talks and demonstrations from a wide range of visiting professionals such as custom and excise officers, police dog handlers and prison officers to make sure you’re thoroughly informed about your career options.
Our range of exciting study tours will help you to learn about the impact of war and conflict under terror regimes with tours to the battlefields of Normandy or to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Krakow, Poland.
Facilities
Where you’ll be studying
Our campus offers you a range of first-class facilities and resources both inside and outside of the classroom.
As a public services student, you’ll get to enjoy a range of challenging outdoor activities such as bushcraft, land navigation and rock climbing and even receive tailormade fitness training in our £6 million specialist Sports Science and Performance Academy.
Our expert staff will help you to prepare for the entry fitness tests which are common in the public services. Our high specification training gym is equipped with everything you’d expect to find in a professional gym including TechnoGym equipment and an Olympic lifting platform.
Community
Community spirit
You will be able to volunteer and be actively involved in fundraising for a variety of local charities, including The Royal British Legion, SSAFA and PTSD charities, to name just a few.
Employable
Employability
You’ll gain valuable on-the-job experience with work placements at relevant organisations. You can also gain additional qualifications such as Duke of Edinburgh awards, first aid qualifications and sports awards or sign up for the other training opportunities we offer.
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