Skills North West

Skills North West is a follow-on project from the hugely successful NIESF Skills2020 and Derry2020. 

This community action employability/training project will reach participants most removed from the labour market, traditionally excluded and isolated and caught in a historic cycle of worklessness/poverty.

Target groups will include;

• Long Term Unemployed (LTU)/ Unemployed
• Economically Inactive(EI)
• Ex-offenders, and most deprived/removed from the labour market
• Traditional/cultural worklessness
• Most socially excluded/at risk of social exclusion
• With low/no qualifications
• Lone parents

Project activities;

• SkillsNW will provide specific support/development activities including
• Initial needs assessment/agreed training plan
• Continuous intensive one-to-one mentoring
• Personal/Social Development Programmes
• Engagement/guidance/job coaching
• Sector specific training/work-based employability skills
• Career planning
• FE/HE progression
• Supported volunteer/work placementS
• Pre-employment programmes with guaranteed interviews • Accredited/vocational training
• Annual jobs/careers fairs in local DEA’s

To enhance employability outcomes for individual participants SkillsNW will

• Provide tailored/holistic approach to meet complex needs of participants utilising existing community links/services(signposting)
• Offer one or more training course and wider employability soft skills
• Track participants from initial assessment to completion
• Follow up tracking monthly and 6 months post completion.

For more information contact Employment and Mentoring Officers

Patti O Hagan   pattidovehouse@gmail.com       02871 269327

Bronagh O'Sullivan     bronaghdovehouse@gmail.com       02871 269327