Skills Coaching
Develop your skills
Get the skills you need for the job you want - get a Skills Coach.
Who is this programme for?
Skills Coaching is for anyone claiming Incapacity Benefit or Income Support. If you are claiming Jobseekers' Allowance or you're unemployed and not claiming any benefit, this programme may also be available to you.
Developing your skills
It takes all sorts of different skills to do different jobs. By improving your skills or learning new ones, you can gain the qualifications you need to do the job you want. The Skills Coaching Service is designed to help you do just this.
What is a Skills Coach?
A skills Coach is a specialist adviser who can help you assess and develop your existing skills and learn new ones, so you are fully trained to get a job.
What will a Skills Coach do?
A Skills Coach will talk to you about the skills you already have and will look at ways of developing them. They will also help you to work out what kind of job is right for you, and how you can get the skills you need for that job. Once agreed, this information will be fed into a training plan that will show what training you have agreed with your Skills Coach.
When you have a training plan in place, your Skills Coach will work with you to develop a Skills Passport, which records the skills you already have and the new ones you are working towards. The Skills Passport is an ongoing record of your skills. It tells an employer what skills you have developed and how you have used them.
What if I don't have any skills?
Everybody has skills that they use every day, even if they don't know it.
If you have to get your children to school, you are probably using:
- time Management skills;
- organisational skills; and
- driving skills.
Paying household bills uses:
- number skills; and
- budget and finance skills.
When you sort out arguments, you have to use:
- problem solving skills; and
Your Skills Coach can help you identify the skills you are using in your everyday life.
The Skills Coaching Service is available free of charge. We may also be able to help you with childcare and travel costs while you are attending meetings with your Skills Coach.
If you would like to find out more then click below and complete the referral form. Once completed a Skills Coach will contact you and provide further information. The nextstep telephone helpline, 0800 0850 330, can also offer you general advice about this project.
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