Works Better – get help to find work

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This post was updated on 6th August 2020

If you’ve volunteered as part of the coronavirus lockdown over the last few months, helping to make sure the more vulnerable people in the community are looked after, you may be considering your next steps. It might be to do more volunteering, find employment or looking for a career change.

Help with finding work is at hand through Works Better. The team understands that this is a stressful time for job seekers and especially those who have recently been made redundant.

The support available includes:

  • Help to apply for Universal Credit
  • Mentoring
  • Advice on updating your CV
  • Searching for jobs
  • Preparing for interviews
  • Support with Job Applications and much more.

Works Better is an employment support programme that has been designed to help residents in Kirklees tackle barriers into work and find new employment opportunities in the future.

Currently, due to Covid-19, services are only being delivered via telephone and digitally, to make sure they comply with government guidance and that residents can still access this crucial support.

To access support from Works Better you must be out of work or unemployed and be a Kirklees resident aged 18+

Find out more

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or call 01484 221000 (and ask for Works Better)

 


Works Better Enhanced is part funded by the European Social Fund and managed by Kirklees Council. It is delivered across the Kirklees District in partnership with Fusion Housing, Paddock Community Trust, Proper Job Theatre Company and Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing.

 

Community Skill Centre – by phone and online

Community Skill Centre – by phone and online

 

 


These new phone and online workshops from Community Skill Centre will help you to build confidence, practice language skills, meet new people, learn something new and stay busy in isolation.

Choose from:

They are open to anyone but may be particularly helpful to people whose first language isn’t English and may be struggling to keep up their English studies without going to ESOL classes.

Support can be offered by phone and text for those without IT or internet access.

The workshops are funded by Community Learning Works.