Skills and Employment support

Skills and Employment support

Whether it is building basic skills or improving existing ones, we provide a range of courses to help people improve their prospects and broaden their horizons. Our training is offered in a friendly, inclusive environment and is specifically aimed at peope who may lack the confidence to enrol at a mainstream college.

BASIC SKILLS AND STARTERS

Start Here - helps adults in Southwark with learning difficulties.  Eight sessions will look at topics such as IT, communications, personal development and health and wellbeing.

Stepping Up - helps people from homeless families with education, training and employment needs. Peer mentors who have experienced these issues first hand offer support.

Support into Work - provides employment training to adults building self esteem, motivation and skills to improve job prospects. Trainees can also gain an NVQ Level 2 in Customer Services.

Skils for Jobs - helps unemployed adults into employment through training in two different areas - IT and Customer Service skills.

LDA Community Project - NVQ course helping unemployed adults develop their skills with work placements to prepare them for employment.

Changing Lives - an employment support service that helps clients back into work by offering support in developing their skills.

Job Club - helps St Giles clients search and apply for jobs, write cover letters and gain further training.  We also advise on disclosure issues and benefit claims.

YOUNG PEOPLE

Aiming High - helps young offenders from Southwark into work through training, development of employment goals and support into employment. 

Bridge to Work - helps young people who face barries to employment get a recognised qualification, vocational experience and support in the first months of work.

OFFENDER/EX-OFFENDER

Community Advice, Information and Guidance - offers clients in the community the opportunity to gain an NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance, backed up with work placements.

Open Road Project - offers six months training and employment through an accredited course and a part time paid work placement.  Undertaken in the community by prisoners on temporary license in the lastyear of their sentence.

Teacher Training - offered to ex-offenders in the community and serving prisoners eligible for day release. It provides training in teaching skills towards a teacher training qualification. Trainees need to commit to two days a week for a 13 week period. 

PROFESSIONAL

Construction Skills Certificate Scheme - we offer existing clients training in Health and Safety on a construction site and the chance to gain a CSCS card. Trainees must be engaged in another St Giles Trust project.

Outreach IAG - our intensive Information, Advice and Guidance NVQ (Level 2) is tailored to frontline workers delivering services to homeless people.