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Employment and Inclusion Helping you into work

Employment and inclusion East Thames have an Employment and Inclusion Team dedicated to supporting unemployed east Londoners to get back into work.

We deliver a number of programmes of support which together can provide a broad range of assistance and training to residents.

The Employment and Inclusion team have a strong track record in helping people back to work and since 2010 have helped more than 1000 customers to secure employment.

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people have been placed into jobs by the Employment and Inclusion team since 2010

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Some of our employment and inclusion programmes include: Workwise Workwise is our core employment support service delivered from a number of locations including West Ham Lane, Barking Foyer and Winsor Park Community Centre. This service provides a bespoke programme of support for unemployed people including a detailed initial assessment, action planning, access to one to one advice, guidance from a qualified careers advisor, group workshops, training in a range of employability skills, job brokerage and assisted job search and applications.

Every working day of the year we’ve helped someone find a job which has improved their life.

Routes to Work This programme provides unemployed residents with the chance to try new career opportunities through work experience and/ or support from a mentor, with the aim of securing full-time employment. We deliver our programme of well structured and supervised work experience opportunities in partnership with a range of corporate organisations. The programme provides three days training leading to two weeks of fully supported work experience and opportunities for mentoring from staff working with our corporate partners in Canary Wharf and the City.

Construct Your Career Construct Your Career is a highly successful programme designed to help unemployed people access jobs in the construction industry. Working in partnership with our partners at Building Crafts College the programme provides a 16 week accredited training programme leading to a level 1 City and Guilds construction qualification, a CSCS card and access to work experience on site and real job opportunities.

Volunteering We offer an extensive range of volunteering opportunities including placements with our Care & Support services and other departments of East Thames to help residents contribute to our services whilst gaining valuable experience and the chance to meet new people.

Construct your Career graduates

Youth Projects With funding from both LB Barking and Dagenham and Barclays, we began providing specialist employment and job brokerage services to 16 to 24 year olds in 2013. We now have a special team who work with our young customers and close to 100 of them have so far been helped into employment or an apprenticeship.

Special Projects In recent years we have secured funding from London Councils, ESF, SFA, LB Newham, LB Barking and Dagenham and Barclays. These funding streams have enabled us to deliver bespoke programmes to women, people with a history of mental health issues and the long term unemployed.

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Providing routes to work Barclays mentoring programme

Many of our participants do work experience with us here at East Thames. Many also go on to secure a job here, too. But we couldn’t have achieved the strong results we have this year without the terrific help we get from our many partners. Here are just some of the ways they’ve helped: PwC: sharing secrets to employment success Recently, over 30 Newham residents received expert advice on how to improve their employability at a oneday event we hosted with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The event took place at the Newham Workplace Hub in Beckton. Throughout the day, residents got employment advice and support, interview practice and help with their CVs. The unique event gave people a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be mentored and supported by experienced leaders from a global professional-services firm.

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Trowers & Hamlins Trowers & Hamlins are our lead solicitors.

In each of the past few years they’ve given two of our employment trainees a fortnight’s work placement. East Thames resident and Trowers & Hamlins trainee, Thushari, has gone on to find employment since his stint with the solicitors. He described the work experience as superb and said the experience had made him more confident and driven.

Barclays Over the past few years Barclays has hosted participants on a three-month employment-mentoring programme.

East Thames participants met regularly with their Barclays mentor to discuss career aspirations and the actions needed to achieve their goals.

Barclays mentor participant, Tak, said the programme helped him understand how his mentor had got to where he is today, and gave his confidence a big boost.

Support from our partners

John Lewis Stratford City We were delighted to be selected as John Lewis Stratford City’s charity partner of the year for 2012/13 - a monumental year that included the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

During that time staff from both John Lewis and East Thames took part in various fundraising events including a sponsored sleep out and a 2012km bike ride. John Lewis Stratford City also raised £33,000 by charging a modest £2 to use their Olympic Park viewing platform.

In total the partnership raised £35,000. The funds raised have gone towards an Olympicsinspired sports programme at Focus E15 foyer in Stratford; enterprise sessions in foyers across east London and Essex; and new facilities at the Focus E15 foyer among other projects.

East Thames and John Lewis staff at the sponsored sleep out event.

John Lewis continues to provide us with home starter packs at cost price. These home starter packs include essential home items such as pots, pans and bedding, and we give them to residents who need a helping hand to set up a new home.

“I wanted to come to this event to increase my confidence and really present myself in the best possible light. The interview role play has certainly helped do that.”

Motunrayo Newham resident

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For more information about our employment and support services or to book a place on one or more of our programmes Phone: 020 8522 2221 Email: ETE@east-thames.co.uk Website: www.east-thames.co.uk/ employment-training

THAMES THAMES THAMES 29-35 West Ham Lane Stratford London E15 4PH Registered in England & Wales (4091100) Registered Charity (1084952) Tenant Services Authority Registered (LH4309) Member of the National Housing Federation

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Tel: 0300 303 7333 Fax: 020 8522 2001 Minicom: 020 8522 2006 www.east–thames.co.uk