EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING
 


Website for: 
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Your Rights at Work: HERE
 


 


Most organisations / companies advertise vacancies on their own website. Find the website address then if vacancies not obvious look in about us, bottom of page or site map. For assistance finding paid work look at job broker page or alternatively look at this website which lists a large number of agencies and employment websites for many work sectors www.agencycentral.co.uk
 

 

Blackfriars Workcentre

BLACKFRIARS WORK CENTRE


‘The Work Centre+ at Blackfriars Settlement creates opportunities for people with mental health difficulties through skills Workshops in administration, design and printing, information & technology, soft crafts and woodwork. People are supported into education & training, work experience or work placement. A new Art2Print project running an artist/ graphics design - led training courses to develop commercial artwork. There is a weekly drop-in and user led friendship group every Wednesday, with social activities combined with cook and eats session.’  

If you would like to know more about Work Centre+ please contact Mannie or Bill
 
T
el: 020 7928 9521

Email: Mannie.Onyeje@blackfriars-settlement.org.uk          
website:
www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk
 


Pecan  

PECAN TRAINING CENTRE
 

As of March 2007 due to lack of funds the Brandon course has ended.
Please see the Pecan website for further courses and contact information: 71-73 County Street, Elephant & Castle
Tel:
020 7940 8250

Email: welcome@pecan.org.uk   
website: www.pecan.org.uk

 

Portugal Prints

 

PORTUGAL PRINTS


Workshop which offers rehabilitation to to people with mental health problems based in Holborn people from outside Westminster need local authority funding, work available: computing, art & design, card printing, light bench work, reception, accounts, deliveries and domestic duties.

Parish House,  Portugal Street, WC2A
 2HB
Tel: 020 7404 4267


Email: portugal.prints@westminstermind.org.uk

website: www.westminstermind.org.uk
 

Share Community

SHARE COMMUNITY
 

Provides self help, training and education opportunities to enable people with disabilities of any kind to progress towards their individual goals for life, participation in the community and life, based in Clapham Junction some courses available are horticulture, business administration, rehabilitation and life skills, information and technology.   

64 Altenburg Gardens, Clapham Junction, SW11 1JL 
Pam Dale 

Tel: 020 7924 2949   Fax: 020 7350 1625

E
mail: info@sharecommunity.org.uk  
website:
www.sharecommunity.org.uk


New offices in Brixton, please contact Akiebel on 020 7326 5460 or
Email
: newstart@sharecommunity.org.uk  for details.

Southside Rehabilitation Centre

SOUTHSIDE REHABILITATION CENTRE
 

For people who are interested in open or sheltered employment : training or employment in one or more of the following: printing, catering, photocopy shop, clerical & computer training, cleaning, laundry, light assembly/packing. 

45 Knights Hill, West Norwood, SE27 0HN 
T
el: 020 8766 6688 

Email: office@sra-ltd.co.uk
website: www.sra-ltd.co.uk
 


First Step Trust

FIRST STEP TRUST
 

For people with mental health and/or learning disabilities. Trades with general public providing services in painting & decorating, removals, landscape gardening and maintenance, craft goods, printing & furniture restoration. Work possibilities also exist in administration, finances & clerical work.

Tel: 020 8678 9364
1-3 Brixton Hill Place,
SW2 1HJ


Email: lambeth@fst.org.uk
website: www.firststeptrust.org.uk

A restaurant at Abbevilles in Clapham is also ran by First Step Trust where experience can be gained in catering work. Future plans include inner city garden centre & retail premises. Work hours generally Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30pm & Abbevilles evenings and weekends.
Abbevilles
Tel: 020 7498 2185
 
 


Mosaic Clubhouse

MOSAIC CLUBHOUSE
 

Based between Streatham & Balham Clubhouse works on a psycho-social model of rehabilitation designed to create an environment within which individuals experiencing mental ill health can be helped to achieve or regain the skills necessary to lead productive & socially satisfying lives.


 Work areas include:
 

Catering

  Administration

    Employment unit

  Transitional employment (paid experience with local companies)
 

126 Atkins Road, Balham,  SW12 0AN
T
el: 020 8674 2349
      

Email:
info@mosaic-clubhouse.org
website:
www.mosaic-clubhouse.org

 

Carpet Cleaning Care
 

CARPET CLEANING CARE
 

A professional carpet cleaning business offering a high quality cleaning service and opportunities for workers to get paid whilst training on the job (plus benefits)
 

3-6 Beale House, Lingham Street, Stockwell, SW9 9HG

Kevin Poulton Tel: 020 3228 6805 

Email:
kevin.poulton@slam.nhs.uk
website: www.carpetcleaningcare.org
 


Employment Cafe

 

EMPLOYMENT CAFE
 

Services include: CV writing, internet access, personal development, career consultancy, office facilities, minority outreach project for job centre +, job brokering with specialist agencies, and web/text messaging job matching service.    
    

64 Railton Road, SE24 0FL
Tel: 020 7733 8878

Email: info@employment-cafe.co.uk
website:
www.employment-cafe.co.uk

 


Jobseekers Direct

JOBSEEKERS DIRECT


J
ob vacancies, training, volunteering in local area or nationwide/Europe, includes lots of volunteering possibilities within mental health field in local area.


website:
www.jobseekers.direct.gov.uk

 


Pace

EMPLOYMENT PROJECT WITH PACE
 

Working with the gay, lesbian community in London: work experience placement, volunteer work placements, training and paid work.  based in Islington. Services for mental health users include stress management, communication skills, anxiety management, team work, job seeking skills, etc.

6-7 Manor Gardens, Islington, N7 6LA
Tel:  020 7700 1323
 

Email: info@pacehealth.org.uk 
website: www.pacehealth.org.uk

 


Refugee Council   

Learning and Integration Unit

Training courses

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Business English

Promoting Refugee into UK Labour Market Employment (PRIME)

Work placements

Job search workshop

Mentoring

Help with job seeking

For more information about our courses and services contact us;
Tel 020 7840 4488 or Fax 020 7840 4403

If you would like to join our mailing list to receive a prospectus and information about new courses as soon as it becomes available, email your
contact details to:
training@refugeecouncil.org.uk

The Refugee Council
Learning and Integration Unit
3 Bondway Vauxhall
London SW8 1SJ

website: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk

 


OSW

OSW
 

Registered charity with unrivalled expertise in providing training and employment services to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, across London.

Collaborating with a range of strategic and service delivery partners to offer joined-up solutions to some of the complex problems that face people at the margins of society.

 website: www.osw.org.uk
 


Loreca

LORECA
 

London Refugee Economic Action (LORECA) is a pan-London project that supports refugees to enter employment, training and enterprise.
LORECA aims to:

  • Strengthen the capacity of refugee organisations to support refugees' employability
  • Increase the refugee sector's influence with Government by developing policy initiatives in partnership with the sector
  • Ensure that the London economy fully benefits from the vast pool of skills and experience that refugees have to offer

website: www.loreca.org.uk
 


WATERLOO JOB SHOP

This site is a signpost to the future – your future. It can lead you to a new job or better training, show you the way to get things back on track and help you turn things around. Follow the signs and you'll find there is so much you can do. And so much we can help you with.

T
el: 0207 926 8760
F
ax: 0207 926 8755

Email: enquiries@waterloojobshop.co.uk


 


 

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