1. The Role of Priority Families Employment Advisors
Katy Pearson, Monica Bryce & Rob Harrod
Priority Families Programme
Nottingham City Health & Wellbeing Board 1

2. Learning outcome:
To give you a better understanding of the role of Priority Families Employment Advisors within the Priority Families Programme. 2

3. Priority Families Employment Advisors
Who are we?
Why are we part of Priority Families?
Introduce ourselves
We are “out stationed” from the DWP to NCC
Katy has been part of the programme since April 2013
Rob and Monica joined April 2015 as part of Phase 2 (now 307 advisors like us in England).
We have areas of specialism
Each of us has an assigned area of the city, but will support each others areas when necessary 3

4. Services we can offer
Consult with practitioners to support families into work
Source local training opportunities
Source volunteering/work experience
Guidance on benefits
Practical support with CV’s, job applications, etc
Support families to stay in work
We work directly with families when appropriate, but mainly offer a consultancy service as we will not be here for ever.
Sometimes turning around one member of the family can have a positive effect on the rest of the families desire to get into work/training 4

5. In the current Priority Families Training we deliver:-
An overview of benefits
Universal Credit and the changes coming
The psychology of work
Better off myth busting
Get Britain working initiatives
This is what is included in the current Priority Families training
Psychology of work – affects family members self esteem and motivation
Get Britain working:-
Apprenticeships
Traineeships
Nottingham Jobs Fund
Social Media – Face book / Twitter
If you feel there is something that you feel need some training on then let us know and we can organise some training for you
Bigger group would be more practical for training

6. Universal Credit Presentations
Universal Credit (UC) is new benefit being introduced to replace a range of benefits and tax credits.
The aim of UC is to make work pay.
We can deliver presentations at Team meetings to help to support you and your families in your understanding of this.
Universal Credit will be introduced in Nottingham City by the end of the year
It will be for single claimants only, but will be rolled out to families over the next two years
So it is important to have an understanding of it

7. Any questions? 7

8. Thank you Priority Families Employment Advisors
Nottingham North: Katy Pearson - 
Nottingham Central: Monica Bryce –   
Nottingham South: Rob Harrod –
Priority Families Employment Advisors
KATY
Thank you for taking part in our workshop
Hope you found it useful 8