Hull in print : Feature - Your Council creating new earning opportunities for you

Jobcentre Plus has put in place a rapid response service to help people cope with redundancies, including advice to employees who are about to be made redundant.
Advice for job seekers includes how to write a CV, interview techniques and information about applying for benefits.
Jobcentre Plus can be contacted at www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk or by calling 0845 6060 234.

Local Work Guarantee (LWG) scheme

This is a £10 million scheme which aims to create 1,500 jobs by paying wage subsidies to businesses who take on new staff.
The scheme is specifically for people who have been claiming Jobseekers' allowance for less than a year, and for people who have been claiming incapacity benefit for more than a year.
Under LWG, such people will be employed for the first three months on a community-based project which could involve anything from working as a receptionist to looking after the elderly, to gardening or refurbishing parks and open spaces.
These projects will be provided by six main organisations, which are: Goodwin Development Trust, Probe (HULL) Ltd, Latitude Community Resources Ltd, Construction Works, Skills 4 Communities, and Jobsteps (a partnership between Autismplus and CASE).
During the three months, participants will get the chance to improve their maths and English skills, where appropriate, and to learn about qualities valued by employers such as punctuality, self-presentation, team-working, following instructions, and basic health and safety practice.
They will also receive help to find a permanent job, and take part in work placements with potential long-term employers.
After this period, the aim is that as many participants as possible will move into long-term jobs.
And the employers who take on these staff will be offered wage subsidies of £75 per week per employee for the first 36 weeks.
Employers will also be expected to offer the employee a training plan which will lead to a level 2 qualification (the equivalent of five GCSEs).
For more information about the LWG scheme contact Bob Ferraby, Nicole Hughes, or Laura Cox by phoning 300300.

Neighbourhood Employment Network

As well as Jobcentre Plus, other organisations which provide advice and information about finding jobs and accessing training are:

Goodwin Development Trust, based in The Goodwin Centre, Ice House Road, west Hull, which can be contacted on 594322 or online at www.goodwintrust.org
Probe UK Online Centre, at Annandale Road, east Hull, which can be contacted on 707965 or via email at info@probeltd.co.uk
Latitude, at 93 Greenwood Avenue, or at the Bespoke Centre, Bransholme, which can be contacted on 830112 or email cw@latitude.uk.com

Together these partners make up the neighbourhood employment network which, in particular, aims to support people in deprived neighbourhoods.

City Works

Advice and information about finding jobs and accessing training is also provided by City Works.
The organisation offers a 'job matching' service.
People looking for work can register with the service and are matched up with suitable vacancies.
In recent years, City Works has worked in partnership with a range of local companies, including Alpine Fine Foods (a food distributor), Baron Construction (a house building company) and Robinson and Sawdon (a joinery company) and in doing so has helped more than 2,000 people find jobs.
At the same time, City Works is calling on employers to get in touch and register vacancies by calling a hotline on 0800 915 5374.
It has also launched a 'local employment charter' which encourages local employers to sign a pledge stating that they will recruit locally wherever possible.
City Works can be contacted on 308711 or by visiting www.cityworks.org.uk.
Its offices are at 18 Ferensway and at 26 Princes Dock Street.

Hull Enterprise Partnership

For people who want to start their own business, the Hull Enterprise Partnership (HEP) has a team of advisors dedicated to helping get new firms off the ground.
Support includes a range of free workshops – from ideas development to marketing and business planning, Other support includes help with benefit calculations, training, one-to-one mentoring and support with applications.
The HEP offers advice to both traditional and non-traditional business people who have a passion for success and a great idea.
The partnership combines three of the organisations mentioned above – East Hull Transforms (part of Probe Ltd), Goodwin Development and Latitude – together with Hull Community Church in the Newland area.
All services are offered free of charge.
Contact the HEP team on 782400 or online at www.enterprisinghull.org.uk

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All the above schemes (apart from Jobcentre Plus) are funded by the ONE HULL partnership, which is made up of public and private sector partners working together to create a better city.


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