Employability Skills Programme

Aim of the Programme

The Employability Skills Programme offers Jobcentre Plus customers a programme that recognises their different backgrounds, needs and goals and helps them to:

• Enhance their employability skills
• Improve their literacy, language and numeracy skills
• Secure and sustain employment
• Continue their learning journey with support once they gain employment.

The Programme will enable customers to work towards nationally approved basic skills and employability qualifications through:

• Activities that will enhance their employability skills
• Opportunities to update their knowledge and understanding of the local labour market
• Opportunities to update their job search skills, to participate in guaranteed interview and to spend trial weeks with local employers
• Personalised literacy, language and numeracy programmes embedded within the delivery of the employability curriculum.
  Progress reviews every 3 weeks.

 Eligibility

• All Jobcentre Plus customers claiming benefit or credits who are aged 18 or over and have a literacy, language or numeracy need at Level 1 or below are eligible for the Programme.
• Customers are eligible whether or not they are in receipt of benefit or credits or whether they are in receipt of contributory, New Deal Training Allowance or other income related benefits.
• Jobcentre Plus customers who are part of a joint claim (partners in a joint claim who are also required to satisfy JSA requirements in respect of availability for work) are also eligible to be considered for the programme.
• For customers eligible for mandatory New Deal provision at the time of the review interview with Jobcentre Plus, this will always take precedence over the Employability Skills Programme where the customer is eligible to be referred to both programmes for the first time.
• In the same way, Pathways to Work will always be the first programme to which Incapacity Benefit customers will always be referred before customers will always be referred before the Employability Skills Programme will be considered, where appropriate.

• Haringey

  1 Turnpike Lane, London, N8 0EP

  Maxine Williams
  Phone:0208 342 5699
  Mobile:0208 342 5699
  

• Stratford (Queensway House)

  Queens Way House, 275-285 High Street, Stratford, London, E15 2TF

  Maxine Williams
  Phone:0208 534 8486
  Mobile:0208 534 8486
  

• Stratford (Office Village)

  Unit 04F, Stratford Office Village, 14-30 Romford Road, Stratford, London, E15 4BZ

  Maxine Williams
  Phone:07837188625
  Mobile:07837188625
  

• Upton Park

  Upton Park Site, Unit 16, 2nd Floor, 1 Harold Rd, Upton Park, London, E13 0SQ

  Maxine Williams
  Phone:0208 472 3281
  Mobile:0208 472 3281