1. Supported Internships
Supporting Progression into Employment

3. What next?

4. Supported Internship
The aim of supported internships is to prepare young people with complex needs for paid employment by:
supporting them to develop the skills valued by employers;
enabling them to demonstrate their value in the workplace; and
developing confidence in their own abilities to perform successfully at work.

5. Components of a successful SI
flexibility to meet (changing) needs of individual interns - and employers
significant time in the workplace;
clear links between workplace and non-workplace learning
planned progression strategies

6. Non-workplace learning
Workplace skills:
Understanding mindset
Business and customer awareness
Dealing with your first days at work
Understanding your customers

7. Workplace skills:
Managing your time
Managing information
Presenting information
Presenting yourself
How to keep improving
Setting your targets

8. Workplace skills:
Working in a team
Dealing with conflict
Working with colleagues
Working with managers
Valuing and supporting others

9. Work Placement Finding the right job match Vocational Profiling:
-preferences for and past experience of employment;
-strengths and abilities which would allow them to make a positive contribution in the workplace;
-support needs in a working environment

10. Our Interns

11. Supporting our Interns
Tailored support (person-led)
Job Coach equipped with right support strategies
Moving towards independence
Setting up ‘natural supports’
Involving employer in the decesion-making

12. What we are learning along the way
Importance of welfare advice
Support for employers

13. Supporting Employers Addressing their concerns
Recognizing their needs as a business (e.g. employer responsive quals)
Reassurance through easy access to Job Coaches
Supporting them to understand the interns needs (e.g. communication)
Strong relationship can open further possibilities

14. Our Vision Further opportunities for Supported Internships
Continuing raising learner aspirations for employment

15. Thank you
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