Skills and employment

The majority of our clients want to work, either now or in the future. To help them towards this goal, we offer a wide range of skills and employment programmes.

Overview

Helping people who have experienced homelessness to gain skills and develop their employability is a fundamental part of our aim to help people rebuild their lives.

How does it work?

We want the range of skills and employment services we offer to suit the diversity of our clients. Many of our clients have low literacy levels or learning difficulties, so we start with the basics – offering classes on literacy and numeracy through our Basic Skills team.

We then work with clients to build a sustained recovery, progressing from basic skills to more vocational training, such as learning trade or administrative skills. The ultimate aim is to get clients back into employment, which helps them build confidence and independence. So we have close links with partners across a number of sectors so we can help clients into meaningful, paid employment.

We also run Recovery Colleges in London and Bristol which offer supportive, social and activity based learning, to help people build their skills and meet new people.

What is the impact?

We help people through their whole journey from learning basic skills, through to full employment. An example of how someone might progress through the services we offer could be:

Accessing our Basic Skills training to help with literacy and numeracy
Joining Train and Trade, offering courses on various trade skills, like bricklaying or decorating
Through our Employment and Training team, becoming employed by one of our partner organisations
Joining our Tackling Multiple Disadvantage employment scheme. Click here to download an information leaflet. Click here for further information and referrals
Learning new skills in gardening and horticulture through our Putting Down Roots programme

We offer a variety of options, and look to match each client’s individual skills, interests and strengths so that they’re more likely to succeed.

We’re proud of the difference our skills and employment services are making in people’s lives. In 2017-18 alone over 2,600 people used our skills and employment services, helping 202 people into jobs, and we took on 17 apprentices, 9 of whom went into further employment with us or partner organisations.

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