Nicola Coombe starts work within the Borough Council’s Business Engagement Team on 9 August as part of the Tees Valley InWork Support Project. This project seeks to support both employers to retain their workforce and employees to retain their jobs. This is an external facing role working in partnership with a wide range of organisations to provide a central point of contact to engage with businesses and provide people employed in SMEs with a range of guidance and support and signposting to other existing services to help them retain their job in spite of current personal circumstances that may threaten this.
The Tees Valley InWork Support Project (TVIWSP) is funded through Single Programme resources administered across the Tees Valley City Region by Tees Valley Unlimited and will run until 31 March 2011. Nicola’s key responsibilities will include:
· Working to identify businesses with staff retention issues;
· Identifying people at risk of losing their job through local and neighbourhood networks and liaison with wider partners;
· Providing information advice and guidance to employees who are at risk of having to leave their job due to any number of reasons;
· Referring employees to appropriate specialised services that are able to support the person stay in work;
· Administering a small flexible pot of funding to pay for any additional assistance required to remain in employment;
· Contributing towards wider learning about how existing services are resourced to meet the demand from employees at risk of having to leave their employment;
· Developing a full understanding and knowledge of current and future support services available to people in employment, and
· Working with partners to assist individuals to access appropriate training and skills development opportunities.
Nicola can be contacted on 01325 388 367 or Nicola.coombe@darlington.gov.uk
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