Return to work scheme celebrates with Lord Mayor
The Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Brian Grocock,
visited return to work specialists Working Links to find out how
they have successfully helped more than 1000 people into work.
The employment specialists are delivering a programme that
supports people that have been out of work for 12 months or longer
into sustainable employment – and they have achieved this thanks to
the support of partner and provider organisations and the local
employers who have been making the most of the free service to
support their recruitment drives.
Whilst taking a tour of their premises at City Gate on Tollhouse
Hill, The Lord Mayor of Nottingham took the opportunity to meet
with some of the jobseekers currently benefiting from the service.
In particular, he met with a group on a lively course geared
towards helping them gain jobs in the care sector. Courses like
this take place regularly at the premises, upskilling the
jobseekers in align with the skills sets that employers are looking
for. This gives them a much better chance of securing a job. All of
those on the care course have interviews over the next couple of
days.
Roy Barnes from St Anns has been out of work for over a year. He
is looking for cleaning or manual work and has been benefiting from
one to one support from his Personal Consultant Shereen Reid.
He said: “I have found Shereen and the team at Working Links to
be brilliant – they have all been helpful and friendly and I
actually enjoy coming in regularly to talk about my progress.”
The Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Grocock said: “I found
it enlightening to hear about the work Working Links are doing in
helping people get back into work. I know people are facing
difficulties with the number of jobs out there dwindling but it
would be even harder without organisations like Working Links.”
For more information on Working Links please call 0800 917
9262