EMPLOYMENT Restore Restore supports people with mental health issues to recover and get into work. Restore provides employment coaching, recovery groups and support to manage personal budgets. Restore also offers coaching to keep a job that you’re in. If your mental health condition is making it hard to cope at work, their specialist coach can help you navigate the maze of employment-related issues that can seem overwhelming. Telephone: 0845 250 0518 or 01865 455823 Email: referrals@restore.org.uk Website: www.restore.org.uk Aspire Oxford Aspire Oxford helps people who have experienced disadvantage, inequalities in the labour market or other situations that create barriers to work, gain the experience, confidence, skills and employment they need to get back into full-time paid work - including through real work experience in its own social businesses. Anyone who has a barrier to work can apply to join Aspire; perhaps you've been homeless, or maybe you have a previous conviction, or maybe you've overcome an addiction. Aspire works with anyone over the age of 18, with 3 months' sobriety if drink or drugs have been a previous issue, and who do not have schedule 1 offences. Telephone: 01865 204450 Email: info@aspireoxford.co.uk Website: http://www.aspireoxford.co.uk/our-services/employment-and-skills/ Oxfordshire Employment Helping to support people with long term health issues or a disability to keep paid employment. Oxfordshire Employment are funded to offer support to anyone whose disability is preventing them from looking for work. Email oxfordshireemploymentservice@oxfordshire.gov.uk Telephone 01865 815809 To access: speak to your Job Centre Plus Employment adviser about being referred Remploy Remploy support people with a wide range of disabilities, health issues and barriers to work. We enable them to prepare for, find and move into a new job. There are three ways that you can access Remploy support and advice: Online, Face to Face and Mix of both. Find out more at their website – http://www.remploy.co.uk/
Job Centre Plus Jobcentre Plus provides resources to enable job-searchers to find work, through Jobpoints (touchscreen computer terminals), Jobseeker Direct (telephone service) and the Jobcentre Plus website. They offer information about training opportunities for the chronically unemployed. They administer claims for benefits such as Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, and Jobseeker's Allowance. Contact details for all local job centres on page 2. Page 1 of 3
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Oxford Jobcentre Plus 7 Worcester Street Oxford OX1 2BX Telephone: 0845 604 3719 Oxford Jobcentre Plus Floyds Row Oxford OX1 1SS Telephone: 0845 604 3719 You can use the 0845 code to call these 0345 numbers. Check with your phone company which code is cheaper for you. https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus Banbury Jobcentre Plus Crown Buildings Southam Road Banbury
Abingdon OX14 3QS Telephone: 0345 604 3719 Witney Jobcentre Plus 2 Rivers Trading Estate, Station Lane, Witney OX28 4JA Telephone: 0345 604 3719
OX16 2EX Telephone: 0345 604 3719 Abingdon Jobcentre Plus Torus House 38-44 Stert Street
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Banburyshire Advice Centre (general advice) Information, advice and support for the residents of Cherwell District, South Warwickshire, West Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire and the city of Oxford. They also specialise in giving education course information and career counselling. They have a number of specialised career advice software. Email: helpdeskbancp@yahoo.com Telephone: 01295 279988 Website: http://banburycp.moonfruit.com/ SOFEA (South Oxfordshire Food and Education Academy Founded in 2014 to serve the needs of families in the Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to supply local charities with fresh, nutritional produce and provide training for those disadvantaged in the labour market. Its training programmes help people of all ages develop the skills they need to move into meaningful, paid employment. Email: info@sofea.u.com Telephone: 01235 810077 (warehouse) or 01235 510774 (office) Online contact form: http://www.sofea.uk.com/contact-2/ Website: www.sofea.uk.com