OPG December 2022 Newsletter

Merry Christmas Team OPG – as we close out the year let’s share 3 positives that we can take into 2023 with us:

1. We have TEDx Women in Nov 2023 to look forward to – with lots of interest already!

2. Kate has had 8 initial sales calls for our new Money and Mental Health Offering with 2 signed up for Jan along with a fantastic response rate on the emails being sent!

3. Kings Lynn has confirmed their programme start on 17th January 2023!

We would like to thank everyone for all their hard work during 2022, we know it's been a rollercoaster of a year but we are looking forward to coming back bigger and brighter in 2023! Have an amazing Christmas with your families and a Happy New year to you all!

Projects and Data

The key piece of work for Vicky, Kat, Michelle, and Candy has been the learner audit. They have been pulling all the missing pieces together in the folders, so we are in a good place for any future audits.

Vicky and Michelle have also been involved in checking the onboarding process and have plans to test the new process in the New Year

Shaun has been getting to grips with the extra programmes he has picked up and getting to know more about all the nuances of each client.

Gav has been pulling the client data reports and rebuilding the Ford report to get more accurate data from the system. He has also checked the Rhenus eLearning material and added it to their programmes.

Marc has worked with Gemma this month to create a new Master Facilitator Register, that will be unleashed In the New Year.

Delivery Team

The team continues to focus on supporting learners to get back on track and has received lots of positive feedback from learners relating to the support coaches are providing.

Gemma P has worked hard to support Ford with some good results including:

One of the more difficult learners has changed their outlook, even sharing book recommendations and trying to get to know Gemma Big win!

Francessca is supporting our learners with a Cognasisst session with feedback such as the below received from the learners:

I have just had a good meeting with Francesca on Cognassist. We discussed areas that may be of extra benefit to me as an individual learner The discussion with Francesca touched on opportunities to further develop visual information processing, skills to listen & write at the same time; skills to react to & action new information.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Delivery Team

With the continued focus on Cognassist, we have achieved some great results going from 0% supporting evidence to 88% supporting evidence in 4 months which is a huge success

Sonia continues to work with the learners to achieve some great first-time FS pass rates.

We have had 11 FS elements passed this month already, which includes 5 full claims, and still awaiting another 3 results. Sonia has also successfully facilitated 14 learners to complete their speaking and listening assessment in the last 2 months!

One of these full claim passes is David Pretorius, who has worked so hard in achieving his L2 maths and says he is now looking forward to being fast-tracked for his English qualification.

The team has worked together to support the auditing of files for learners that are PPED and this is helping us to identify best practices for PL level 4 submissions.

We have had an AO learner successfully complete her PL4 EPA with a Merit and have more learners booked in to complete their EPA in the new year. One learner has achieved a distinction in her APM Apprenticeship (Atlanta was the first learner we have put through APM EPA)

Lin has worked hard to successfully support 8 out of 8 PPED Amazon learners to be ready for Gateway in Jan 2023

The team continues to support #oneteam with Sangeeta supporting different clients to ensure engagement is maintained throughout December.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Outreach opportunities

With the release of the Future Skills Funding in February for prisoners that focuses on short courses with a maximum length of 10 -12 weeks. We are aiming to tender to provide our Human Skills, Digital Skills, and Mental Health and Money and Menopause workshops. Focusing on skill enhancement and the pathway to sustainable employment.

Norwich prison are excited at the prospect of creating a Hospitality Skills Academy and loves the idea of collaborating with UK Hospitality, and the charity Only A Pavement Away which will enable us to create in collaboration sustainable pathways into employment.

We have submitted an Expression of Interest to Reed in Partnership to work on a government-funded project to support Refugees, if successful this runs from June 2023 to June 2025.

We will be hitting the ground running after Christmas to maximise our footprint within the Ministry of Justice and make an impact on the lives of those who are in prison or due to be released

Digital Design

The team has been focusing on getting ahead with all programme workshop content so we can enter Jan organised and ready to go.

Work has been completed on the Process Leader and Operational Management eLearns also. We have also been making sure all Process leader task sheets are on OPG branding so we can launch the full content library in the new year, fully signed off and ready to use.

Social posts for Jan are planned and February will be all about National Apprenticeship week –Gemma will be reaching out to get some pieces from learners to shout about their successes! keep an eye out for what we are sharing via our LinkedIn page here - OPG LinkedIn page

We are also supporting the TEDx content which is super exciting!

Social Team

We had a quiet month in November for activities, but we have the Christmas get-together booked this week which was great fun - a big thank you to Sonia who pulled an amazing quiz together! The winners were "All the other Reindeer!"

Secret Santa was a great success - feel free to share on Yammer your gifts!

As always if you have any great ideas for events, charity pieces, or general fun things to do please get in touch with the social team If you would like to join the social team in the new year, please get in touch with Gemma

Don't forget we have also created an OPG Spotify playlist to give you some festive cheer - you can access it here - OPG Christmas Tunes

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Good News!

Jake had an amazing time in Mexico –swimming with turtles and dolphins and generally escaping the horrible winter weather!

We are super excited to have Shaun join the newly named Digital Projects Team in the new year!

Jo and Lorraine had a successful two days at Cambridge University with IA Cohort 3 The majority will now be going to Gateway meetings in January and taking forward to EPA some really interesting project proposals.

In Jan 2023 the delivery team, welcome Vicky & Michelle to the delivery team.

The Skills First passes have taken a massive leap from 12 to 41 - this is a rise of 342%! Well done Sonia for all yopur hardwork!

Good News!

Candy completed one of her EPA assessments this month and wish her good luck on her 2nd assessment in January

Rita's son, who is working with the Bank of England as a senior Economist has been appointed as Non-trustee Director of the executive board of Avanti School Trust, a leading Educational Institute having several Branches all over the UK.