HAVERING WORKS
Careers Advice and Employment
Funded by
It offers free support for local unemployed residents who are looking to get back to work, training or explore future career opportunities.
Our services include:
- confidential one-to-one assessment of individual skills and training development needs
- guidance from a qualified personal adviser to help individuals develop an Action Plan with steps towards achieving goals
- job coaching and mentoring
- information on specialist agencies and other provision that offers additional and/or more specialist support
- matching transferable skills and experience to job vacancies
- job search support (CV review, help with job applications and interview preparation)
TRAILBLAZERS
A voluntary programme for economically inactive Havering residents
Trailblazers is a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) funded initiative designed to test innovative approaches to supporting economically inactive individuals into employment.
The programme provides tailored support to help participants overcome barriers such as health conditions, caring responsibilities, and other systemic challenges.
Employment and Skills support is available for Havering residents with challenges, complex barriers preventing them from recent active job search activity, or circumstances that deem them unable to start work right away.
Barriers may include
- long term unemployed/economically inactive
- disability
- health related condition or diagnosis including neuro diversity or a learning disability
- lack of skills/qualifications
- homelessness
- carer or childcare issues
- care leavers
What we offer
- Personalised one-to-one support
- Bespoke job-search and work experience opportunities
- CV building support, skills matching, job interview preparation and training opportunities
- Confidence building
- Information on specialist agencies and other provisions that offer additional or/and more specialist support
- Reasonable adjustments within employment settings if needed
- We work closely with individuals and employers to ensure a good working environment
Connect to Work
We know that getting into work, or staying in work, isn’t always easy.
That’s why we offer personalised, one-to-one support to help you take the next step and achieve your goals.
You do not need to be in receipt of benefits to join the programme. Connect to Work is open to anyone who needs support, whatever your current situation.
What we offer
- A dedicated Employment Specialist to support you throughout your journey.
- A personalised plan based on your strengths, preferences, and goals
- Help engaging with employers to find and shape roles that suit you
- Guidance around benefits and workplace adjustments, including support for your employer.
- Ongoing coaching and support once you’re in work, including future career planning
- Flexible meeting options. We’ll meet you wherever works best: at home or in the community
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Business Partnerships
What Havering Works Does
Havering Works is part-funded by the European Social Fund to offer local people access to jobs, training and employment support services.
We seek to bring existing services together to work in a more coherent way by offering support for residents who are unemployed, underemployed or looking for in-work progression.
Our mission is to ensure that Havering residents have well developed skills and bespoke employment routes to benefit from opportunities arising from local developments and are able to compete in the wider London labour market.
What Havering Works offer their partner/employers
- Dedicated Employer Engagement Managers that work in partnership with your business to recruit, train and retain valuable employees from our customer base within the Havering region
- An effective and zero cost recruitment and talent matching service
- Individual support and assistance during your recruitment open days
- Help to implement your Corporate Social Responsibility and diversity objectives by engaging with communities across London thus supporting your future tenders
What Havering Works require from you
- Permanent jobs of at least 16hrs p/w with dedicated route ways (guaranteed interviews, assessment centres) that meets the national minimum wage
- To be a preferred supplier with advance notice of upcoming opportunities (vacancies, work experience, apprenticeship & other applicable opportunities)
- Working in partnership with us to help you develop employer led training
- Feedback
What Havering Works hope to achieve
- Empowered candidates with essential skills, qualifications and access to training, jobs, apprenticeships and further education
- Support for local Havering residents and business in realising their ambition and potential and enable future development and career pathways
- Help improve lives and positively contribute to the local community
Contact us
For additional information about how your business may get involved, please email havering.works@havering.gov.uk.