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.

• Barking

  1st Floor Wigham House, 16-30 Wakering Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 8PD

  Baljeet Kaur
  Phone:0208 591 1511
  Mobile:075 2590 3731
  

• Haringey

  1 Turnpike Lane, London, N8 0EP

  Stuart Mol
  Phone:0208 342 5699
  Mobile:07793 618156
  

• Ilford

  1st Floor, City House, 9a Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4DU

  Brian Knott
  Phone:0208 514 6909
  Mobile:07793 618146
  

• Leyton (Gateway Business Centre)

  Suites 13-18, Gateway Business Centre, 210 Church Road, Leyton, London, E10 7JQ

  Arshad Patel
  Phone:0208 539 2585
  Mobile:075 2590 3354
  

• Stratford (Queensway House)

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

  Arshad Patel
  Phone:0208 534 8486
  Mobile:075 2590 3354
  

• Upton Park

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

  Stuart Mol
  Phone:0208 472 3281
  Mobile:07793 618156