Job Entry: Targeted Support Scotland - Expression of Interest - Ingeus call for Partner organisations

Tender description

Ingeus are tendering for the Job Entry: Targeted Support Scotland (JETS Scotland) service. DWP are launching JETS Scotland, a light touch employment programme, to tackle the rise in unemployment due to the Covid-19 pandemic. JETS Scotland will support people who have been unemployed and in receipt of benefits for at least 13 weeks, offering personalised support for a maximum of 182 days. JETS Scotland will be measured against a high-level delivery offer, and achievement of employment outcomes, based on participant earnings. We are therefore looking to partner with organisations who have experience of delivering employability services in Scotland. The key elements to be provided under JETS Scotland include: - Personalised approach including regular adviser contact, tailored action plan and using collaborative approach to getting the Participant back into employment. - Diagnostic screening (inc. IT skills and Basic Skills capability assessment). - Job search support (inc. CV writing; application process, Interview techniques, including online interviewing). - Skills analysis including identifying transferable skills - help with support to consider different employment sectors/routes and ways of working including home working. - Re-building confidence and self-efficacy in Post Covid-19 environment (inc. support for anxieties about working in a Covid-19 environment with peer support network, potential access to mental health and wellbeing support) - Advice and guidance for those wishing to change sector (e.g. building on the sector based "Step Into" guides Providers already use) - Signposting to other support (inc. local skills provision, NEA)