Skills North West - Dove House (Derry)

Skills North West is a follow-on project from the hugely successful NIESF Skills2020 and Derry2020. This community action employability/training project will reach participants most removed from the labour market, traditionally excluded and isolated and caught in a historic cycle of worklessness/poverty.

Target groups will include;

• Long Term Unemployed (LTU)/ Unemployed
• Economically Inactive(EI)
• Ex-offenders, and most deprived/removed from the labour market
• Traditional/cultural worklessness
• Most socially excluded/at risk of social exclusion
• With low/no qualifications
• Lone parents

Project activities;

SkillsNW will provide specific support/development activities including  :-

• Initial needs assessment/agreed training plan
• Continuous intensive one-to-one mentoring
• Personal/Social Development Programmes
• Engagement/guidance/job coaching
• Sector specific training/work-based employability skills
• Career planning
• FE/HE progression
• Supported volunteer/work placements
• Pre-employment programmes with guaranteed interviews
• Accredited/vocational training
• Annual jobs/careers fairs in local DEA’s

To enhance employability outcomes for individual participants SkillsNW will :-

 Provide tailored/holistic approach to meet complex needs of participants utilising existing community links/services(signposting)

Offer one or more training course and wider employability soft skills

Track participants from initial assessment to completion

Follow up tracking monthly and 6 months post completion.

For more information contact Employment and Mentoring Officers : 

Patti O Hagan pattidovehouse@gmail.com 02871 269327

Bronagh O'Sullivan bronaghdovehouse@gmail.com 02871 269327