The following training centres are available around the UK. To view details of training centre simply select a link:
Drumchapel
East Kilbride
Fresh Start
Melrose Employment Guidance Agency
Springbank New Technology Training Unit
Open Doors Café
Paisley
Rehab Goodwill
Rehab Remanufacturing Services
Vocational Rehabilitation Unit
Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injury Centre
Toryglen Resource Centre
Appliance Bargain Centre
Open Gate Community College, Drumchapel Centre,
44 Hecla Square, Glasgow G15 8NH
The Drumchapel Centre assists people who have not worked for many years to take the next step
towards greater social and economic independence.
The service aims to boost the job prospects of its
clients through its ground-breaking New
Opportunities and Energiser programmes.
This is a 23 week pre-vocational programme for
long-term unemployed people who have a physical
or sensory disability, a mental health problem and/
or a mild learning difficulty.
The objective of the course is to enable clients to develop the motivation, confidence and core skills to move into more formal further education or training, with a small number going directly into employment.
Training incorporates an introduction to goal-setting
and review techniques, confidence building, work
related skills including the SVQ certified Using Information Technology course and coping skills
which includes health management, stress
management and assertiveness.
Before completing the course, each client finalises
an exit plan which identifies the appropriate steps
and timescales to meet their goals. More than100
local people have so far benefited from the
programme.
Energiser is a 12 week programme is aimed at those long-term unemployed who are recovering from a depressive or stress related illness.
The objective of the course is to provide early intervention in the recovery process. Energiser enables clients to raise their self-esteem and confidence levels as a first step to becoming equal competitors in the jobs market. The only "hard" outcome required by the programme is a planned move into further education or training.
Training includes:
Community Interaction - a process of exploring the interests of the group and constructing a range of activities which the clients have all agreed they
might try
Community Development - local issues that affect
the group are explored with a view to researching
and accessing the agencies, organisations and community groups which impact on these issues.
Coping skills - delivered by the COPE project which provides an exploration of an alternative service
and an introduction to goal-setting techniques.
Quest - the Drumchapel Adventure Group deliver
an outdoor challenge designed to test and establish
the skills and confidence developed on the
programme.
Faichney Field ATC, 96 Main Street, The Village,
East Kilbride G74 4JY
The East Kilbride centre provides fully integrated vocational training and rehabilitation services to unemployed people aged 16 or over who are disadvantaged through learning difficulties.
Clients starting on the programme usually have no
up to date qualifications, skills or work experience.
They may also have low self-esteem, diminished confidence, poor interpersonal and communication
skills. A system of Individual Programme Plans
ensures that these needs are addressed, supported
by the Rehabilitation Officer (Psychologist) and
Social Skills staff.
The programme emphasis is on Lifeskills. Healthy
living, Community Integration activities, Information Technology skills and Work experience, with Job Coaching if required.
The project offers City & Guilds Skillpower
certification and the opportunity to advance to a
City & Guilds NVQ Administration Level 1 course.
All clients also complete a City & Guilds Profile of Achievement before leaving the programme.
2nd Floor, 144/146 West George Street, Glasgow
G2 2HG
Fresh Start is a 26 week programme which assists unemployed people who have experienced
depression, anxiety and stress related illnesses to consider their future employment options.
Participants undertake information technology
training, personal development and vocational exploration designed to reduce dependency and
help them achieve greater social and economic independence.
2nd Floor, 144/146 West George Street, Glasgow
G2 2HG
MEGA provides a stepping stone back to
employment for people who have been out of work
for more than two years.
Each year more than 50 clients avail of the service which is supported by the Glasgow Works
programme and is open to people aged 25 and
over who are experiencing difficulty in entering or
re-entering the workforce.
Its objective is to increase the employability of its
clients through work experience, along with a
package of training support and development. Participants receive a wage for work done,
employment status and a job contract.
In 1998 MEGA was selected to join the
Government's Employment Zone Initiative in
Glasgow - one of only five pilot projects operating
in the UK.
This pilot aims to provide clients with transferable
skills, assess individual employability and aid the transition from benefits to jobs.
Springbank Resource Centre, Doncaster Street, Maryhill, Glasgow G20 7DG
The Springbank centre provides specialist training
in information skills and assistive technology to
people with physical disabilities and or sensory impairments.
Run jointly with the Glasgow North & West Social
Work Department, the centre assist clients to move
into jobs, further education and achieve
independent living.
This Service has an Outreach/Home support
element. The project has established close links
with local colleges and employment services which enables clients to achieve their objectives.
171 Westmuir Street, Parkhead, Glasgow G31 5EY
Based in Parkhead, the Open Doors Café assists
adults with physical or learning disabilities to
prepare for the workplace.
Clients receive work placements, training and experience of a realistic working environment
before moving into the open jobs market.
PAISLEY Charleston Centre
49 Neilston Road, Paisley PA2 6LY
Based in a mental health resource centre, the
Paisley centre provides fully integrated vocational training and rehabilitation services to long-term unemployed people aged 25 and over.
Programmes encompassing a range of commercial activities enable clients facing exclusion from the
labour market due to mental health or stress related problems to gain up to date vocational skills and
recent employment experience through work placements.
These include administration, print origination,
desktop publishing' catering and hospitality and information technology. Each course is certified by
City & Guilds
220 Blairtummock Road Glasgow G33 4ED
Rehab Goodwill provides specialist training and
support programmes for unemployed people with a variety of disabilities.
Training programmes in catering, retail, stores & warehousing and administration are all carried out
in a real working environment where trainees can put theory into practice and develop their skills. External training placements are arranged with companies in the local area with the support of a job coach.
Each course is accredited by City & Guilds or SQA and all qualifications received are the same as those obtained by students in mainstream training and education.
Specialist instruction and support is available in work related social skills, behaviour management, numeracy, literacy and lifeskills.
RRS Ltd
220 Blairtummock Road Glasgow G33 4ED
RRS is a 40 place project for long-term unemployed people living in a regeneration area within the Glasgow city boundary.
The service is open to:
New Deal clients aged 18-24 who have been claiming job seekers allowance for a minimum of 6 months
Training for Work clients aged 25+ who have been claiming job seekers allowance for a minimum of 1 year and have not undergone any other TFW training in the last six months.
It acts as a 'stepping stone' into future employment by offering clients a job with an employment contract along with skills training, work ethic and experience and personal development for a maximum term of one year.
The objective is to enable at least 75 per cent of clients to move into an alternative job after 39 weeks on the programme. Certified courses in administration, food preparation & cooking and PMO are on offer to clients along with personal development training including driving lessons, fork lift driving, first aid and an introduction to computing.
VRU SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL
1345 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 4TF
This project provides a comprehensive, early vocational rehabilitation service for people with a physical disability or illness which is affecting their ability to work or those who have recently lost their job.
The project's main aim is to provide an effective pathway for retention or reintegration into employment before job loss occurs or long-term unemployment begins.
This is done via a personalised programme of goal setting in the areas of personal development and disability management; employer liaison, job coaching and work site evaluation; training in new/adaptive technology; vocational exploration/job seeking skills.
By getting involved at an early stage we hope to reduce the risk of job loss following illness or injury; provide speedy retraining for those who do become unemployed; assist clients and employers to manage disability in the workplace; and to provide clients with vocational guidance and counselling.
Training Plan
Prior to acceptance onto the course, clients will have undergone an intake assessment which may include neuropsychological assessment along with vocational, functional and worksite evaluation.
Thereafter each client has a team plan drawn up from identified need and will develop an individual programme, attending selected activities as appropriate or for outreach intervention.
In-house activities are delivered in a flexible manner adapting to the client's ability to progress through the programme and can be in a group situation or on a one to one basis.
Every candidate attending the unit will have their own personal training record folder, portfolios and relevant log books.
Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF
Momentum operates a computer training project in the centre which assists people who have become disabled through spinal injury to return to work or find new jobs.
With the use of specially adapted computers and other forms of adapted technology, the project encourages the development of skills that help clients overcome the barriers imposed by their physical condition.
Computers can be adapted to 'learn' the communication style of the individual client - allowing, for example, someone paralysed from the neck down to speak into a head set.
The project has recently begun piloting tailored outreach support for patients from throughout Scotland after they are discharged from hospital..
IT CENTRE
The Savoy Tower, 77 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3BZ
This Glasgow City Centre pilot programme delivers information technology training to the clients of four Momentum programmes, these being MEGA. Fresh Start, Brain Injury Service (Glasgow) and the Community Integration Programme. The medium-term proposal is to develop a centre of excellence with a strong commercial arm.
43 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, G1 4RZ
The Appliance Bargain Centre is a retail outlet which sells domestic appliances re-manufactured by its sister company RRS such as cookers, refrigerators and automatic washing machines.
New Deal clients can receive work experience at ABC and are given the opportunity to work towards a City & Guilds accredited retail qualification.
