Mapping Employability enabling partnership Billy Lynch Manager Open Door Fife Veronica MacMillan Capacity Building Coordinator Wise Move.

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