Mapping Employability

enabling partnership

Billy Lynch Manager

Open Door Fife

Veronica MacMillanCapacity Building Coordinator

Wise Move

WISE MOVEGreirson Report Recommendations 2001

•‘New Way’ of Working with agencies - capacity building

• ‘Aspirational’ approach - progressing clients

• Coordinated Employment Agency

• Twin approach / Strategic overview

Capacity Building

• Employability forums• Common employability

assessment• Awareness raising – frontline staff• Employability resources &

sessions • Mapping range & quality of

provision / ongoing review• ‘Coordinated approach’

Employability&

Homelessness• Lack of clarity• Duplication• No co-ordination / partnership• Lack of consistency &

accountability• Lack of employer / employment

focus• ‘barrier’ rather ‘solution’ focus

Coordinated Approach

Sectoral Development Plan

• Mapping Employability within homelessness

• Measuring quality & range of delivery Evaluation / review tool

Mapping Framework(New Futures Framework)

methodology

• Employability definition / framework – (what?)• Section 1 - soft skills• Section 2 - job preparation & search - getting

the job or opportunity• Section 3 - aftercare - sustaining the job or

opportunity• Semi-structured questionnaire – (how?)• Surveyed 7 agencies (8 employability efforts)• Employment Pathways database Outcomes

Partnership & CCP

Applying A MeasureValidity

• Structure of programme• Numbers engaging element of employability • percentage progressing/sustaining

engagement • Assessment• Monitoring & evaluation• Staff specification qualification/training to

deliver• Physical resources • Devising a scale (1 – 7) 5 being an ‘industry

standard’• Numerical scale – qualitative data

Research Example Organisation X

Summary of Findings

• Process / overview / reflection• Clarity• Expertise – exclusive?• Duplication & Gaps• Tapering out of provision sect’s 1 -

3• Potential for Partnership &

increase access to opportunity

Recommendationsfrom Mapping

‘Coordinated Approach’

1. Integrating employability – ‘Culture change’ Frontline staff training – employability & ‘soft’ progression

2. Employment focused programmes – coordinated delivery – consortium

3. Links to employers – awareness / support / sustaining opportunity – ‘hard outcome’

Sectoral Development Plan - baseline / standard / review / consistent tools / client progression

Potential to ‘measure impact’ for commissioningDeliver Clarity & Accountability

Coordinated Approach – stagesCoordinated Approach – stages  1.1.

Integrating Employability

2.2.Employability programme

Cross Agency delivery

3.3.Links to

employers awareness &

support 

Employability Awareness raising –

Culture shift  

 

Modular deliveryEmployment

focused

 

Employment Agency

Person centredCommon Assessment

Action PlanningTraining pack

CRISISSoft skillsTracking

progression 

Mapping & Evaluation

Quality Measurement

STABLEGetting the job

Employment Pathways

Placement Packawareness‘buddying’

INDEPENDENTSustaining job

& ECHO