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Skills Coaching Service
Spend some time to find out more about Skills Coaching. After all, what cost can you place on investing in your own future? Who is the service for? If you are 20 years old or above and on Job Seekers Allowance or on any type of Income Support e.g. Incapacity Benefit, Lone Parent Support etc, you could qualify for the Skills Coaching Service. The great thing about this Service is that it can offer you ongoing, medium to long-term support to help you to achieve your goals and fulfil your ambitions. For this reason, what we ask from you is a level of commitment that will ensure that your Skills Coach is able to work effectively with you.
How to contact my local Skills Coach?
Skills Coaches work out of most of the Jobcentre Plus offices in the Boroughs of: Bromley, Croydon, Sutton, Merton, Kingston and Richmond. Ask an adviser in a Jobcentre Plus office in any one of these Boroughs about the Skills Coaching Service, and if you are eligible, they will put you in touch with your local Skills Coach. Our Skills Coaches also work out in the community, so if it is not convenient for you to get to a Jobcentre Plus office, call the number below and a Skills Coach will contact you directly.
What will a Skills Coach do? A Skills Coach will talk to you about the skills you already have and will look at ways of developing them. They will also help you to consider what skills you need to get the job you want, and decide how you can get those skills. Once agreed, this information will be fed into a training plan that will show what training you have agreed with your Skills Coach and Jobcentre Plus Personal Adviser. When you have a training plan in place, your Skills Coach will work with you to develop a Skills Passport, which records the skills you already have and the new ones you are working towards. The Skills Passport is an ongoing record of your skills. It tells an employer what skills you have developed and how you have used them.
How do you benefit from the service?
First of all, this service is free of charge and, importantly, it is voluntary. Once you have agreed to take part, you will have the opportunity to discover what skills you already have to offer. It is a service that will help you develop yourself as a person and help you get out of house and meet new people. Importantly, it will help you to discover which sort of job you’re “cut out” for, and what you need to do to get into that job!
What would I do with my Skills Coach?
The Skills Coach is equipped with some very useful “tools” to help you understand what skills you currently have and the skills you may wish to develop. Also, these “tools” are designed to help you work out what sort of job you would like to do and what you need to do to get into that job. Finally, the Skills Coach is equipped with a special motivational assessment “tool” that will help you to identify if you need any additional help. 1st "tool" - Skills Check This is an easy to use skills assessment software package that allows you to work out exactly what skills you have to offer an employer. Everyone has useful skills to offer, and this software helps you to identify those skills and to see how they could be useful in the workplace. Importantly, SkillCheck provides you with information about specific jobs so you can recognise which skills you need to gain to get into a particular job. The Skills Coach will help you to create a development plan, that will guide you towards these extra skills. 2nd "tool" - Pathfinder Your career decisions can be helped with the computer programme called Pathfinder. This gives you a list of suggested jobs that you may be more suited to based on your own answers to questions about your feelings towards aspects of work. You enter your answers onto the computer and get instant results and useful information about different job areas.No computer experience is necessary. You will be guided by instructions on each screen by this user-friendly programme.
3rd "tool" - Rickter Scale Assessment The Rickter Scale® is a unique motivational assessment and evaluation tool that helps you to better understand your present circumstances and to identify important areas where extra support is needed. Together with a Skills Coach, you would develop a strategy that may have worked for you previously (i.e. the way you managed your last period of unemployment) and to explore future possibilities. Rickter Scale® is fun and easy to use and a very effective tool for recognising and talking openly about issues with an adviser. Skills Passport This is either paper-based or on-line, and its aim is to assist your entry into employment, and movement from one job to another. The Skills Passport is a smart looking document that is produced whilst working with a Skills Coach, which you can give to an employer. It provides a record of evidence for the employer of the qualifications and skills you have developed and are working towards. It contains an introduction about yourself, a CV, copies of certificates and a skills profile. What if I don't have any skills? Everyone has skills they use every day, even if they don’t know it! For example: If you have to get your children to school, you are probably using: · Time management skills · Organisational skills · Driving skills Paying household bills uses: · Number skills · Budget and finance skills When you sort out arguments, you have to use: · Problem-solving skills · People skills · Communication skills Your Skills Coach can help you identify the skills you are using in your everyday life. With the help of your Skills Coach, your next job will be to sell these skills, and additional ones you may develop, to an employer! The Skills Coaching Service is available free of charge. We may also be able to help you with childcare and travel costs while you are attending meetings with your Skills Coach.
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