We can:
- Help you find a place on the Foundations to Employment (F2E) programme
- Support you to complete pre-employability skills sessions
- Help you complete the employability skills programme and pay you £25 when you finish
- Help you find a work experience placement
Work experience placements
We’ll pay you £20 a day for attending a work placement, up to five days a week, for ten weeks.
We’ll also pay up to £50 for protective clothing, if it’s needed. Please remember, this applies to Foundations 2 Employment (F2E) placements only.
Directory of Opportunities
The Directory of Opportunities was created to help you find work experience, taster days, apprenticeships and job opportunities in the council, with one of our partners, or in a local business.
Your PA can help you get started with this.
Careers and participation service
Our careers and participation service offers:
- Career guidance for young people aged 16 to 21 not in education, employment or training
- Career guidance for young people up to 25 who have learning difficulties or disabilities
- A guidance interview with young people who want to return to learning after 21
- Financial support with travel, clothes and equipment when starting work, if you work coach can’t help you
- Free dry-cleaning services through Timpson’s to help you prepare for an interview
Useful contacts
Become – propel into education
Staffordshire Jobs and Careers
The King’s Trust (formerly The Prince’s Trust)