Stacks team stock up on retail skills
FETAC CERTIFICATES AWARDED
Wednesday April 28 2010
STAFF from a well-known pharmacy group have successfully completed a skills training course through IBEC's Retail Skillnets programme. The workers from Stacks Pharmacy Group, an Irish family-owned business, were presented with their certificates at an awards ceremony at the Crowne Plaza in Santry.
The staff received their Level 5 Retail Operations Certificate, which is awarded by FETAC to candidates who have successfully completed a range of eight prescribed retail-based modules. Employing over 80 staff, they have 12 stores across the North Dublin area, including Skerries, Lusk Bettystown, Ratoath, Laytown, Donaghmede, Kilbarrack and Darndale.
Over the years their staff have embarked on and successfully completed a range of modules, which IBEC Retail Skillnet offer and support, at FETAC Level 5 on subjects such as customer service and health and safety.
'Our staff are key to our future so investment in staff is the best investment for our company. We want our staff to know that we encourage a job for life and therefore we need a training programme that develops on a year by year basis and is practical and work based. Skillnets
encompasses all these principles,' said proprietor Adrienne Stack. She congratulated the staff on their achievements and thanked them for their time and effort in developing themselves and helping to secure the company's future.
Speaking at the ceremony, Sean Carlin, IBEC Retail Skillnet National Co-ordinator, praised the efforts of the assessors responsible for the delivery of the programme in Stacks. He explained to the staff that they had been part of a first-time experience for Skillnets, in that so many staff from one pharmacy group had achieved the full award in Retail Operations in a work-based education programme.
Caroline Heagney, IBEC Retail Skillnet Regional Consultant, complimented all the recipients of awards on their tremendous achievement. In completing the required 8 FETAC Level 5 retail modules to achieve the Retail Operations Certificate the candidates have acquired a work based qualification which is equivalent to a Leaving Cert within the National Framework of Qualifications. This will allow the candidates to access some further academic courses at Institutions of Higher Education ultimately to degree level.
