Jobskilla
Do you want to work but need a helping hand?
Course registration deadline: 1 July 2024
Get one to one tailored support if you are unemployed.
Take your first steps with them! They can support you with:
- Training
- Qualifications
- CV building
- Action planning
- Meet employers and much more
They support all the people who are experiencing any of the below barriers as well:
- Homeless Person
- Drug and or alcohol dependency.
- Refugee
- Ex Offender
- Carer
- Former member of the armed forces
- Care leaver
- Young person identified as being involved or at risk of being involved in gangs or serious violence.
- Victim of domestic abuse
- Ex carer
- Partner or current former HM armed forces personnel
Pure Innovations
Pure Innovations is a charity providing support services to enable people with a disability, learning difficulty, autism or mental health condition to lead fulfilled lives. They currently offer the following two programmes:
Our Future
The Our Future programme is designed to help people with learning disabilities and/or autism develop important life skills. It is a 10 week group workshop with a maximum of 6 per group covering:
- Self-development
- Community
- Mental and physical wellbeing
- Digital skills
- Healthy relationships and sexual health
- Money and budgeting
- Pre-employment with a focus on voluntary work/work experience or moving onto supported employment
- Safe travel and route planning
- CV building and interview techniques
The course is very person centred for each individual, which helps them to reach a goal of their choice. They have guest speakers from the NHS, Citizens Advice, local workshops, volunteering groups and more depending on the groups interests. They also visit employers and have tours around different industries who offer both voluntary and paid work and they often do group voluntary days or activities.
If anyone is not comfortable in a group setting, they do offer this on a 1-1, focusing on an area of your choice.
Our Manchester
The Our Manchester programme is designed to help and support people with learning disabilities and/or autism into paid employment including:
- A dedicated employment officer
- A vocational profile created with an Action Plan to meet goals
- CV creation and interview preparation and support
- Job identification and application support
- Negotiation with employer’s and job shaping
- Travel training
- Job coaching
- Ongoing in and out of work reviews, monitoring and support
They help with finding work, speaking to the employer, making reasonable adjustments and support through the entire process. This is person centred so help is given as much or as little as needed, this can be alongside them during the interview and working interviews as well as working alongside the client while learning the job role. Once the client is comfortable in the role, they fade out gradually into the background until they are supporting remotely when needed.
Eligibility:
- Have a Learning Disability and/or Autism
- Live in the Manchester City Council Area
- Age 17 year and 6 months plus
To discuss or make a referral, please contact Pure Innovations via the info provided below.
Email: ourmanchesterourfuture@pureinnovations.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 804 4400 (ask for Supported Employment Manchester team)
Web: Home - Pure Innovations
Working Well: Support to Succeed
Working Well: Support to Succeed helps you to overcome barriers which may prevent you from gaining work or pursuing your ambitions. The programme will help to boost your confidence and support you in achieving your goals.
Support to Succeed offers:
- Tailored one-to-one support with a dedicated Key Worker
- A range of available services including individual counselling, physiotherapy, debt advice
- Participation in activities to reduce social isolation such as gardening, sports and group sessions
- Support to progress into further learning, work experience, apprenticeships or employment (where this is right for the individual)
- A dedicated offer and Key Worker for people aged 50+
Benefits of the programme:
- Gain confidence as they support you every step of the way.
- Access specialist services to help with barriers like childcare or transport.
- Potential to increase your income once in a job.
- Improve skills and open doors to new opportunities.
Eligibility:
- Be a resident of Greater Manchester.
- Be aged 19 or over
- Not currently be on a DWP / GMCA employment support programme, or due to be referred to one of these programmes
- Must not be within one of the DWP intensive work search groups (Jobseekers Allowance and Universal Credit Intensive Work Search Regime)
Referrals and further Information:
Contact will be made within two working days to check eligibility.
Pathways 50+
Wellbeing support for North Manchester's unemployed residents aged 50+
Do you need help with:
- Managing your health conditions
- Money matters
- improving skills
- Finding employment
- Increasing your confidence and motivation
Their pathways 50+ service offers an opportunity to connect with others and engage in activities, whilst receiving the personalised support you need. They will support all those referred onto the programme through with a personalised 1-2-1 intervention plan and through peer support groups which have been designed to help their participants with their health and wellbeing, reduce isolation, to build confidence, to manage mental health/physical health conditions and to offer employability training and access to volunteering opportunities.
To find out more email pathways.50plus@pathwayscic.co.uk or call 0161 974 1285.
Also visit Pathways website to find out more
Work and Skills Team Manchester City Council
Over 50's Leaflet
Download the over 50's employment support booklet, packed full of information regarding support available for training, volunteering and employment and contact details for the organisations offering them.
Produced by Work and Skills Team, Manchester City Council
Digishawe Booklet
This useful resource has been created by the 'Digishawe' network, a small partnership group creating initiatives to help Wythenshawe residents get online and access digital support in the local area.
Digishawe Booklet: Helping residents to get online
Information for Jobseekers
Ambition Manchester
Are you a Manchester resident who is currently working but wants to improve your pay and skills? Do you need support to move into work in a new career, or are you seeking a promotion? Ambition Manchester can help you.
They can provide:
- Information, advice and guidance from a highly qualified careers adviser - at a time convenient to you.
- Personalised action-planning to meet your needs
- Help to identify your transferable skills
- Support with writing job applications and CV's
- Coaching to build your confidence and prepare for interviews
- Access to free training to update your skills
Contact ambition@manchester.gov.uk to find out more.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a Manchester based Adult and young persons drug and alcohol service.
Refer someone or yourself to Change Grow Live
Once you are ready to look for work then you can move onto the Individual Placement Support IPS service
- IPS uses a personalised and strength-based approach to support people to find a job of their choosing.
- IPS aims to help people find paid jobs within just weeks of being referred to the service.
- Then it continues to work with both employer and employee to sustain the job placement for as long as possible, or to help the client into a different job.
- IPS directly tackles the lack of integration of healthcare and employment services and the disconnection of different specialists by integrating employment specialists into health teams.
Employ GM
Employ GM is here to help you find local jobs, search for courses and support to help you on your employment journey.
Employ GM | Employment and support services
Job Centre Plus: A Good Place to Start
Their aim is to help jobseekers back into work, and put those businesses needing to recruit, in touch with them:
• jobhelp provides support to jobseekers,
• starting out in your career includes advice and information on taking the first
• steps to finding a job, different careers opportunities and tips on applying for jobs.
• employerhelp provides links to business support and information, as well as help for those who need to recruit.
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Job Support Hub
CareerScope features everything you need to start or progress your career in hospitality, including useful information about the industry, practical careers advice, free skills training, financial and well-being support and access to more than 30,000 live jobs and apprenticeships.
NHS
Are you interested in an NHS career?
Dependent on your skills, experience and chosen career pathway; we can support you with
- Application and interview Workshops
- 1-2-1 sessions
- Employability programmes
- Traineeships
- Work Experience
- Work Placements
Get in touch: employability@mft.nhs.uk
Requirements
- Under 30
- Looking for a new career
- Right to Work in the UK/ able to provide ID
- Some departments require
Functional Skills Level 1
E-mail them with your details and our team will contact you to discuss further
Redundancy Support for Apprentices
Information about support for apprentices who have been redundant or are at risk of redundancy.
Redundancy Support for apprentices
Smart Works Manchester
They are now also delivering their client appointments from their Manchester City Centre site.
Smart Works GM updated client leaflet
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Smart Works GM new client poster
For more information or for a referral, please contact them with a name, contact details, and the desired appointment type to: 0161 974 0669 or greatermanchester@smartworks.org.uk
Are you an unemployed woman and would benefit from some free support in securing a job interview, or succeeding at your upcoming job interview? Then Smart Works Greater Manchester is for you. Smart Works is a female employment charity that provides free styling and coaching services for interview and job success.
They offer personalised one to one Career Coaching to support you in identifying tangible next steps to secure a job interview.
If you have an upcoming job interview, they offer an Interview Styling and Coaching service. You will receive a complete, high-quality interview outfit and accessories (yours to keep) and personalised one to one interview coaching to help you succeed at your interview.
On successfully gaining employment, they'll welcome you back to build a capsule wardrobe ready to start your new job (yours to keep).
All their services are free of charge and can be delivered in-person, or remotely through on-line coaching and clothing parcels directly sent to you.
For more information or for a referral, please contact them with a name, contact details, and the desired appointment type to: 0161 974 0669 or greatermanchester@smartworks.org.uk
If you’re working with women supporting them into employment please get in touch with the Smart Works Greater Manchester team to discuss working collaboratively at greatermanchester@smartworks.org.uk
Working Wardrobe is Open
The One Manchester Working Wardrobe is a free service for men, providing access to interview clothing.
Read more about Working Wardrobe
Scroll down the One Manchester webpage to find out more about the Working Wardrobe offer
Appointments are available on a Wednesday between 10am and 3pm.
Make a Working Wardrobe appointment
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