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Could you provide a pupil with a Work Experience placement within your organisation?   Opportunity Sheffield works with Sheffield schools to secure more placements for pupils within a variety of settings. We will support you by:   • Being your single point of access via our Work Experience database • Ensuring all health & safety and risk assessments are completed • Support employers to offer as many placements as they can without increasing your workload.   Each Work Experience placement can be one or two weeks.   Our online system automatically notifies you when a student is added to any placement you have offered, as well as enabling you to provide key information on your health and safety management practices in relation to Work Experience.   By offering Work Experience placements through us, we reduce your time dealing with individual requests from pupils, allowing you to plan effectively and choose which dates suit you best, ensuring schools approach you in a consistent manner.   Work Experience enables young people to develop soft skills and put into practice the knowledge they have learnt in school in the real world. It also gives businesses the chance to showcase their industry and develop future talent.   If you would like to offer Work Experience placements for pupils in 2025, email: workexperience@sheffield.gov.uk #workexperience #workplacement #workplacements

A testimonial, so epic, it didn’t even fit our template 😍 So here’s what it says: 🗨️🗨️ Grow and achieve have provided a valuable service across Stoke, Staffordshire and into Cheshire in relation to Supported employment and helping many people with SEND to develop work skills and find jobs. As the SEND Employment Development officer for Staffordshire County Council Grow and Achieve have provided a valuable source of experience in the world of job coaching and the support of young people requiring steps into employment. They are a valuable contributor to the Stoke and Staffordshire Local Authority SEND Employment Forum. The company’s commitment to finding opportunities to develop work skills, specifically through working with highly professional and well trained job coaches, provides the best possible support for young people. The company is fully supportive and understanding of a wide range of SEND needs and does a valuable job in passing on this experience through training for other professionals. Grow and Achieve provide training and advice for education providers, families, and crucially, other employers. The central core of Grow and Achieve is to provide SEND young people with job coach support to get transitioned into employment and follow up work previously done on work preparedness. This fills a massive gap after people have left education provision as they seek support into employment. In a world where SEND employment rates are so low the professionalism by which Grow and Achieve seek to work with employers in helping young people develop skills and adjust to working life is commendable. As a company, they also provide work placements of a high calibre themselves in preparing people for warehouse and logistics work, IT skills, retail skills and marketing and communication with the public. It is fortunate this region has Grown and Achieve as an important resource to develop SEND employment opportunities. 😍🦋 I mean – we have no words. But we absolutely LOVE what we do. 😍🦋 #DisabilityConfident #SupportedInternships #SENEmployment #SkillForWork #SENDEmployment #SEND

👏 Collaboration drives results! Discover how high-quality careers education is building confidence and skills among disadvantaged students, empowering them to thrive in the future workforce. Read the full story and report here 👉 https://bit.ly/416xIdc #FutureSkills #CareersEducation The Careers & Enterprise Company Dorset LEP BCP Council Dorset Council UK Michelle Pickard Jan Champney Helen Stevenson Yasmin Brown Clare Dunn Catherine Beater David Wakeford Janek Tarnawski Penny Charrett Dorset Skills #careers #skills #youthvoice #education #dorset

7 in 10 young people miss out on professional careers advice! 🤯 Access to careers guidance & placements often relies on a young person’s parents or family’s networks, leaving many people underserved & later deemed ‘unemployable’. 😕 As the Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO) for World of Wedgwood/ Fiskars Group I oversee Work Experience placements, ensuring necessary Safeguarding & Risk Assessment measures are in place. ⚠️ To streamline the process, I created a catch all document addressing FAQs for young people, their parents, and schools. 🏫 Additionally, I developed an enquiry form that gathers essential information for risk assessments and insights into the students’ current skills and careers interests, from Studio Potter or Museum Curator, to Retail or Hospitality Manager. 🏺💼🎟️ Since launching the enquiry form on our website only 2 weeks ago, we’ve already received 14 enquiries for work experience placements over the next 6 months! 🚀 Happy to be supporting young people across Stoke-on-Trent, as well as supporting the future of the Tourism, Hospitality, Culture & Heritage sectors which I’m so passionate about in the process! 💫 Staffordshire Business School perhaps we’ll see some of them on VARM in a few years time! 🎓 #WorkExperience #FutureLeaders #SkillsDevelopment #Mentorship #WomenInBusiness #YoungProfessionals Speakers for Schools

☀️Check out these summer placements Cardiff Met students ☀️ Work placements abroad are a game-changer for students! 🌍✨ They boost your skills, expand your network and give you a fresh perspective on the global workplace. Plus, it’s an adventure you’ll never forget! 💼✈️ #CareerBoost #GlobalExperience

Last Monday, I facilitated an exciting event with 7 volunteers from the logistics industry with Green Bay High School Vocational Students in Year 13 in West Auckland - my former workplace. This event involved collaborating with the Company Director, Lisa Coleman of Rocket Freight a local logistics company. They’d previously employed two former students from Green Bay High and were keen to repeat the process but were unsure how. Our idea was to speak to Year 13 Vocational Studies students and showcase a range of employment opportunities within logistics. We collaborated with Catrin Hughes the HOD of careers at Green Bay High School and her team - who organised the school end of the event. On the day Lisa was accompanied by a total of 7 role models (3 representing her company) who shared their experiences of working in the industry, the roles they did and how they started in their jobs -Paul White, Julie Palmer, Karl Middleton, Jaxon Neale, Reagan Morta, and Zen Ogiyama The model implemented with industry for this event, was one trialed in Aotearoa with the Eastern Bay of Plenty Economic Development Agency, in 2020 by Dave Turner The-WE3-Continuum-and-Activities-August-2020.pdf. This model is built on three themes, which explore successful student transitions through: · work exposure. · work exploration. · work experience. First Step: Exposure The first step in Dave Turner’s scaffolded employer model is ‘exposure’. This is where an industry is highlighted to learners. It can involve a visit to the company, but this event followed an ‘Inspiring the Future’ format, where volunteers talked briefly about themselves to the whole group before breaking off and speaking to smaller groups of 6-8 students. Second Step: Exploration Within this next step, information was collated from the volunteer role models. The company spoke about work shadowing opportunities (1-2hrs), they could offer students. They explained that interested students would need to apply for them as they would a job and detailed how they could do this. Third Step: Experience Those students who demonstrated enthusiasm for the industry could be offered a work experience placement through a mechanism such as Gateway. Next Steps: Moving forwards, I would love to help connect other companies with their local schools to help attract future workers into the industries they represent.

Join our Telford Employers Group to develop fresh and bold ideas for recruitment, retention and the health of our workforce.     Employment opportunities that are good and fair for all     If you are struggling with recruitment, addressing the skills gap or improving the health of your workforce, then why not join the conversation for real change in the borough. A conversation that we plan to lead to good and fair employment opportunities for all in Telford. Currently we are engaged in discovering how we can improve recruitment practices, reach diverse communities, improve apprenticeship experience and to understand how career events can be more inclusive.      This is more than a Telford Employer Network group feeding in and out or being presented to, instead it’s a space to consider the challenges you as employers are trying to overcome alongside the collective challenges of the group and local communities in gaining meaningful employment.  This is a group who will are prepared to see the solutions through different lenses, work together to solve problems and create the right workplace environment for change right now and into the future, with actions informed and supported by those that can help change happen.     Our meetings are bi-monthly face2face    If this is something that interests you the then message back or email telford@lbfewcommunities.org.uk  Image by Tim Mossholder (Unsplash) #employment #telford #opportunity #apprenticeships #inclusive  

Careers Takeover Day... Spotlight on: Supported Internship Providers! DFN Project SEARCH Wakefield and Kirklees Lighthouse Futures Trust Leeds Shaw Trust Wakefield Who are supporting Camphill Wakefield with our first Takeover Day by coming into college to provide information about their respective Supported Internships. In the current climate where most adults with SEND who want to work, aren't in work, Supported Internships are a proven and highly effective pathway into sustained full time paid employment. The current Internships Work Programme, delivered in partnership with BASE (British Association for Supported Employment) NDTi - National Development Team for Inclusion and DFN Project SEARCH has set the target of doubling supported internships nationally, and where the data shows that on average Supported Internship providers report that 60-70% of interns achieve paid employment on completion, this growth is highly relevant and needed. Last July, four of our Camphill Wakefield graduates transitioned to a Supported Internship: three with Shaw Trust Wakefield, and one with DFN Project SEARCH at Pinderfields Hospital. We aim to continue this trend, and are very appreciative that three regional Supported Internship Providers have agreed to support with the Careers Takeover Day. I am publishing upcoming information events on our website Careers Page, including Project Search Wakefield open events in February. Lauren Foster Adele Darlington #careerstakeoverday #NCW2025 #SupportedInternships #CareersforAll https://lnkd.in/epywZM6w