Working in Partnership with Working Links (Employment) Ltd        

 

We are a leading UK provider of Welfare to Work services, we believe in working in partnership with the best quality-driven organisations to deliver our services responsive to the needs of customers, employers and stakeholders. We are now in the process of preparing to tender for the Personalised Employment Programme (PEP).

 

The PEP pilots commencing in March 2011 are part of the new Welfare to Work initiatives announced in the December 2008 White Paper ‘Raising expectations and increasing support – reforming welfare for the future’. It will offer support for unemployed customers receiving Jobseekers Allowance and customers with health conditions receiving Employment and Support Allowance, to secure and sustain employment, within a single, integrated, flexible employment programme.

 

Working Links will deliver ‘PEP’ as a Prime Contractor, and are looking to engage with providers as potential subcontractors to work in partnership to deliver front-line services to PEP customers.  We will partner with organisations with a proven track record of: 

 

• Sourcing work placements, job trials and voluntary work;
• Delivering high quality support, including assessment, action planning, case management and post-employment support;
• Learning and skills development;
• Prepare customers for employment;
• Specialist self-employment support;
• Specialist support for personal and behavioral issues such as confidence, motivation, anger management, wellbeing and mental health;
• Advice and support on issues such as housing, debt and addiction;
• Employer routeways in a variety of vocational sectors; and
• Delivering provision that helps customers sustain employment.

 

If you are a public, private or third sector organisation and would like to work in partnership with Working Links to deliver ‘Personalised Employment Programme’ in:  

 

• Thames Valley (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire), Hampshire and Isle of Wight
• London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.

 

Please complete our Expression of Interest Form, and send it to us at business.opportunities@workinglinks.co.uk by Friday 14 May 2010.