Synergy

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Synergy

• Camden Neighbourhood Learning
• Jobs Initiative

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Ruth Sykes Employment Officer Team Leader
Synergy

• Graham Bates
• Chief Executive CTN
• Contract Manager Synergy

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Synergy - Aims
Community Learning Training Providers
Beneficiaries

• Provide holistic package of support
• Help to establish realistic career aims
• Assistance in accessing and retaining training
  place
• Support in progressing to next level of learning
• Assistance in identifying and securing employment

• Encourage increase take-up of learning
  training opportunities
• Support retention on learning training
  programmes
• Assist exit/progression strategies for learners
• Help increase outcomes

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Synergy Target Groups

• Socially excluded Camden residents (small number
  from adjacent Boroughs)
• Individuals willing to undertake a minimum of 30
  hours mix of guidance support over 2 weeks to
  12 months
• Priority focus BME, Disability, Women, Refugees
  and Camdens ten target neighbourhoods
• Unemployed economically inactive

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Synergy Partnership Network
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Synergy Framework
Independent Information Advice Guidance Synergy
Assessment Recruitment Gateways
Learning Access Progression Support
Employment Support
Sustained Guidance
Further Learning
Job
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Independent Information Advice GuidanceSynergy
Assessment Recruitment Gateways
Outreach
IAG

• Advice session at community venues
• Jobs Training Fairs
• Direct targeted marketing

• Advice on Learning, Training Employment
  Opportunities
• Initial Assessment
• Signposting to other services

Gateways

• Synergy Delivery Partners IAG provision
• Outreach guidance work
• Wider CTN partnership network
• Groups of existing learners undertaking courses
  with community learning or training providers
  are recruited directly to customised support

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Sustained Guidance

• Normally 10 hours over period with Synergy
• One to one
• Develops and updates individuals action plan
• Reviews progress and revaluates career goals over
  time small steps
• Built around learning support activity

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Learning Access Progression Support

• Normally 20 hours over period with Synergy
• Support takes 3 forms

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Learning Access Progression Support

• Individual Learner Support (pre-entry to
  learning)
• Individual Learner Support (outside formal
  learning environments)
• Customised Support Packages within community
  organisations and training providers

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Learning Access Progression Support
A highly flexible menu of support options
includes

• Addressing individual barriers to learning and
  employment
• Identifying learning and employment goals
• Finding the right course or programme
• Identifying transferable skills
• Basic skills and ESOL
• Tasters
• Communication and assertiveness training
• Problem solving skills development
• Introduction to Information Technology
• Confidence building
• Course work support

• Complementary short programmes
• Career strategies and planning next steps

• Job search techniques
• Marketing yourself on paper
• Marketing yourself in person interview skills
  and techniques.
• Understanding the workplace expectations
  pitfalls
• Planning for a job benefits, childcare etc

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Employment Support

• Direct Employment Advocacy
• Job Matching
• Support through existing brokerage

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Direct Employment Advocacy

• Synergy seeks out appropriate vacancies and
  advocates to employers on behalf of the
  individual.

• Provision focuses on job ready individuals facing
  continued barriers to employment particularly
  due to prejudice
• Direct work with the employer
• Involves Synergy staff at different stages of the
  recruitment process
• In some instances results in the employer not
  requiring a competitive interview.

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Job Matching

• Synergy identifies vacancies from employers and
  uses its job matching service to match vacancies
  to job ready individuals

• Individuals are supported throughout the
  employment application process
• Vacancies often identified through joint activity
  with other initiatives
• Vacancies not filled by Synergy registered
  clients are distributed through Synergys Jobs
  Match network to ensure that as many Camden
  residents as possible can access the service

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Support through existing brokerage

• Synergy works through existing brokerage
  programmes in order to ensure beneficiaries
  progress into work

• Brokerage projects keep Synergy updated on
  beneficiary progress
• Beneficiaries return to Synergy if not found
  employment within a month

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Employment Support

• Beneficiaries can go straight to Employment
  Support not necessary to have been through
  other elements of Synergy
• Different methodologies used as appropriate to
  beneficiaries
• Three to six months support after individual has
  been assisted into work

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Synergy Outcomes/Outputs

• Contract targets
• 666 Learning Outcomes
• 75 Jobs secured

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Synergy Beneficiary Profile

• Profile of project to date
• BME Backgrounds 76
• Disability 1
• Male 50
• Female 50
• Pre-Level 1 44
• Level 1 24
• Level 2 32