A Place to Work

“Our vision is of a place where people get the jobs and training to which they aspire”
 
By 2010, the Community Development Trust aims to make the 3 Estates a place where working and learning are accepted as a natural part of everyday life and where everyone can get the job they want.
 
That means providing better access to information and advice about work and training. It also means making the routes into work easier for residents, and making employer perceptions and recruitment practices more inclusive.

Projects

UHB Transport

From 01.10.2007 to 01.10.2007

SWIFTLINK BOOKING NUMBER: 0121 771 1520

Call between 9am to 4pm, or leave a message on the answer machine outside of these hours and someone will call you back.

The project offers a service between the Kings Norton 3 Estates and University 

Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) located at Selly Oak. This is to allow equality of access for Kings Norton 3 Estates residents to the services of UHB.

 Although UHB is working towards offering at least one outpatient clinic in Kings Norton, this will not implement improved access to the many clinics and other services that a local large acute NHS Trust like UHB provides.

Residents of Kings Norton 3 Estates provided anecdotal evidence to the Kings Norton NDC Health Theme Group that because of the current number of buses they need to catch to reach UHB and the associated costs, they have not attended appointments at UHB. As Kings Norton 3 Estates is recognised as deprived area with regard to economics and health inequalities, the access to UHB needs to be improved as a priority.

It is hoped that a pilot will provide useful evidence to influence future transport planning.

 

 

 

Preparing for Work

From 01.06.2008 to 31.03.2010

This project has been designed to :

•      provide opportunities for adults on the 3 Estates to re engage in learning.

•      offer realistic tasters to encourage adults to consider an appropriate learning pathway leading to accreditation and employment.

•      provide comprehensive progression routes and first steps accreditation to enable learners to move forward.
 
•      to support learners at all stages with Information and advice about further learning and employment opportunities and appropriate accreditation.
 
•      to maintain contact with employers to offer real life job opportunities.
 
•      The project is aimed at all men and women living on the 3 Estates currently not employed nor engaged in learning.
 
A minimum of 400 adults will take part in some measure in one of the courses offered, with as many of these as possible being encouraged to progress .Tasters and follow on courses will be delivered by trained                      teachers in a variety of venues across the 3 Estates, learners having been identified either by community groups, outreach workers or by self referral with community groups working together to identify need and agree appropriate learning to meet that need.
 
CONTACT CATHERINE ON: 0121 483 1113

Jobs Outreach & Training

From 01.10.2008 to 31.03.2010

The project will deliver a fully integrated access to employment and training facility for residents of Kings Norton 3 Estates. The project will assist them to access employment opportunities and also to help people in work to be better able to sustain their employment, especially those who have recently entered employment and who may require some limited but continued support to enable them to remain in work.                                               

Objectives
 
To reduce the percentage of unemployed people living in Kings Norton 3 Estates
 
TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT CALL:0800 294 4188