Job Coaching
Building good quality supported employment provision is hard. More so while Local Authority budgets are being squeezed. Yet employment remains the goal for many people with a learning disability.
We can help to make this easier with a number of approaches. We can support you to develop a strategic appraoch to improving the number of people getting and keeping paid work. We can offer advice and consultation, practical development of quality systems and support with commissioning good quality employment provision.
We can help to make this easier with a number of approaches. We can support you to develop a strategic appraoch to improving the number of people getting and keeping paid work. We can offer advice and consultation, practical development of quality systems and support with commissioning good quality employment provision.
Practical support
We are supporting the We Work for Everyone Programme across Bristol, BaNES, South Gloucester and North Somerset with its aim to boost the provision of good quality employment support for people with learning difficulties across the region. www.weworkforeveryone.org
We offer mentoring, training and support through a Community of Best Practice to enable programme navigators, providers and partners, develop skills and knowledge, raise awareness, expectation, attitude and belief. Click here for a copy of the presentation we gave at the We Work launch |
By blending tried and tested supported employment approaches, a mutual stance and elements of social franchising, Sixteen can offer a refreshingly new way of working. With modest investment, Local authorities get an opportunity to build capacity of good quality, evidence based employment support provision that can deliver significant social returns on that investment.
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Individuals and families who hold an individual budget are able to get the support they want secure in the knowledge that all employment workers within Sixteen will be trained and supported to the highest standards.
Importantly, the workers themselves will not only be able to use Sixteen as the vehicle for their own employment, but be able to develop a career within the supported employment industry.
The key objective of Sixteen is to establish a sustainable social enterprise that:
- Provides good quality job coaching in line with developing quality standards
- Provides an employment ‘vehicle’ that enables individuals to work in the field supported by an organisation that they have a stake in
- Builds the capacity of job coaching support on the ground that can be accessed by local authorities working through the change from commissioned services to individual budgets
- Help other providers in need of support for their staff (including self employed Job Coaches)
- continuing professional development
- community of practice
Sites are chosen specifically because either they will have identified a gap in the supply of quality employment support locally or that they will have taken some steps to develop job coaching capacity and now need a delivery ‘vehicle’ in place to offer a range of co-ordination and mentoring support.
Click here to go to the Sixteen website
Resources
Other information is available below
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