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 help to make this easier with a number of approaches:
- support with the development of a strategic approach to improving the number of people getting and keeping paid work.
- offer advice and consultation around commissioning good quality employment provision.
- implementation of communities of practice and
- development of quality systems
Practical support
We are supporting the Bristol SEND Employment Forum to develop and implement their Internship Works Action plan
This involves continues support for the We Work for Everyone Programme operating across Bristol, BaNES and South Gloucester and proving good quality employment support for people with learning difficulties across the region www.weworkforeveryone.org We continue to offer mentoring, training and support to enable programme navigators, providers and partners, develop skills and knowledge, raise awareness, expectation, attitude and belief. |
In 2012, we developed Sixteen Co-operative Ltd as a way of blending tried and tested supported employment approaches, a mutual stance and elements of social franchising.
The key objective of Sixteen are to:
www.sixteencoop.co.uk |
The key objective of Sixteen are to:
Click here to go to the Sixteen website
- Provides good quality job coaching in line with Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF)
- Enables employees to build a long term career in the Supported Employment sector within a organisation that they have a stake in
- Builds the capacity of community and internship job coaching support on the ground that can be accessed by local authorities working through the change from commissioned services to individual budgets
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Resources
Other information is available below
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