About Wise - Information about WISE
Aims
WISE wants to find paid work for you. We will make a plan with you to help you find work. The aim of the plan is to find a paid job. There will be steps along the way.
These are your goals.
Goals
Your aim is to get a job, but there may be steps along the way. You may need training or a work placement.
Work Preparation
WISE has courses to get people ready for work. These courses help you with the skills that you need to get a job. They also help you to know what people will expect from you at work.
Other Courses
WISE can tell you about courses that may help you get new skills
Work Placement
There are 3 kinds of placement:
Work Taster – if you are not sure what kind of work you want to do.
Work Experience – if you know what you want to do but need practise and an employer’s reference. This also helps WISE find out about your skills. Work Trial – if an employer has a job vacancy but wants to see how well you can do it first.
Support on Work Placement
In all work placements you will have help from a Jobtrainer from WISE. The Jobtrainer will help you to learn the job and will stay with you for as long as you need.
You will not be paid a wage while on placement, but WISE will send you some money each week for fares and lunches.
Employment
The time will come when you know what job you want and you have enough experience, and you have an employer’s reference. Your Employment Consultant will then look for paid work for you, or voluntary work if that is your aim.
Jobs are found by reading adverts and by talking to employers.
It may take some time to find the right job.
Your Employment Consultant will help you with forms and will go with you to interviews.
The Jobtrainer will help you to learn the job. If the job changes later the Jobtrainer will come back to help you again.
Work and Benefits
It is important for WISE to know all the benefits you get because there are different rules for different benefits.
WISE will tell you how going to work will affect your benefits. You may be able to do some work and keep some benefits.
The benefits system is very complicated, so always talk to your Employment Consultant before taking a job or going on a course.
Your Employment Consultant will advise you, but the choice will be up to you and your parents or carers.
WISE and You
There are lots of people looking for work, so WISE cannot promise to find you a job, but we will do all we can to help you find work.
Your Employment Consultant will talk to you every few weeks to let you know what has happened. You can help by telling WISE about any changes in your life. Let us know if:
- You move house
- You start on a course or you finish a course
- You find a job or you leave a job
- You change your mind about work
WISE can help you get a job. We have helped over 1000 people to find work.
Employers
Employers are people who pay other people to work for them.
WISE would not be able to do anything about getting you a job without the help of employers, so it is important for jobseekers to meet the needs of employers.