Young People from Borough find their future jobs
Posted by Carly Roper on Monday 18 January 2010
Twenty jobseekers recently started work at St Helens Chamber’s Construction Training Centre in new jobs funded by the Future Jobs Fund, which will see a total of 240 new jobs created locally as part of the Government’s Backing Young Britain campaign.
The group, mainly aged between 18 and 24-years-old, will train at the Construction Training Centre in Fleet Lane, which delivers training in bricklaying, plastering, tiling, joinery, plumbing and ground works. The new recruits have been taken on in technician, construction operative and environment operative roles.
Joanna Boley, Future Jobs Fund Coordinator at the Chamber said: “The Future Jobs Fund has enabled us to create 20 new jobs that will make a difference to a lot of people. The successful recruits will be fully supported throughout the programme with training and careers advice. It’s a great way to build their skills, gain relevant work experience, update their CVs and get the references that will help them when applying for other jobs in their career.”
During their time at the centre, the recruits will work in three teams – one construction and two environmental.
The environmental teams will work on Bold Moss (the former Collier/Power station site), Viaduct Sport and Social Club in Newton-le-Willows, the entrance to Colliers Moss in Brookway Lane for re:new Parr, and the sports field front entrance at Bold Miners Club.
The construction team is working on renovating a vacant property in Clock Face for Helena Partnerships.
Jobcentre Plus advisers were able to fill all twenty jobs for St Helens Chamber, with two thirds designated for 18 to 24-year-olds and one third for people of any age – all but one of the new recruits are from St Helens.
The jobs will offer a 26 week temporary contract, pay the national minimum wage and offer a 30-hour working week.
Of the 240 new roles created in the Borough by the Future Jobs Fund, some will be on environmental and construction projects delivered by the Chamber through the Construction Training Centre, while others will be placed with partner organisations including St Helens Council, Helena Partnerships and within the voluntary sector working on community projects.
Pauline Devine, Employment Services Manager at St Helens Chamber, said: “This new project is a fantastic opportunity for us to help reduce unemployment levels and we are extremely pleased to have won the contract to deliver the project.”
St Helens Chamber is delivering the Future Jobs Fund for St Helens on behalf of St Helens Council, as part of a consortium covering the Liverpool City Region of which Knowsley Borough Council is the lead bidder.
More than 2,500 jobs targeted at long term unemployed people are being created across the six local authorities after a successful bid by the Liverpool City Region Cabinet and City Employment Strategy Board, working on behalf of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral and Liverpool Councils.
The councils in the City Region have worked together to identify different types of jobs in a range of sectors, including apprenticeships, the health service and working with children and young people. In addition to the Councils, there are a further 100 organisations involved as employers, the majority of which are social enterprises, or in the voluntary or community sector.
The City Employment Strategy Partnership is one of the key elements of the Liverpool City Region multi area agreement signed by the six local authorities in January and September 2009. Its aim is to boost employment and skills across the region.
The vision of Liverpool City Region is to be a thriving international City Region by 2030. The Employment and Skills contribution to this will be to ensure a supply of skilled people, improving productivity and getting more people into work.
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