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Workplace Coordinators: Local, employer-focused solutions to worklessness
Tom Harding, Senior Policy Officer, Westminster City Council & Laura Dubeck, Project Manager, Cross River Partnership
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Workplace Coordinators (WPCs)
•Scheme established in late 2009
•Workless, low income, NEET, at risk residents in high worklessness areas
•Four WPCs now working across Westminster: Recruit West End x2, Victoria and Housing Renewal
•Commissioned by
Westminster City Council
and managed by Cross
River Partnership
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Contributors have included...
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Offer to employers
• Help to identify and define recruitment needs
• Free recruitment solution with a single point of contact throughout:
•Identification of need or vacancy
•Referrals of suitable candidates
•Candidate screening
•Pre interview work with candidates
•Recruitment
•Ongoing in work support to ensure a good fit
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Offer to workless residents
• Access to new and ‘hidden’ vacancies through WPC relationships with employers
• Close matching of candidates with roles – no bulk vacancies
• Ongoing support in-work to help overcome any issues
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Target areas: high worklessness wards in Westminster
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Case study
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Offer to providers
•For skills providers: links to employers to inform development of ‘pipeline’ skills provision leading to jobs
•For employment support providers: referral point to get candidates supported into work
•WPC is an informal point of contact and ‘hub’ for opportunities
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Benefits and achievements
• c. 100 candidates placed per WPC per year
• Average 92% of candidates placed achieving six months’ sustained employment (95% Crown Estate WPC)
• Links to local authority contracts – helping contractors meet obligations on local employment
• Links to employer-backed courses to prepare jobseekers for available vacancies
• Public-private co-design and funding
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Aspirations
• Continued expansion
• Financial sustainability
• Devolution
• World class training / pre-employment feeder programmes
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Thank you
Tom Harding, Westminster City Council – [email protected]
Laura Dubeck, Cross River Partnership – [email protected]