We are thrilled to celebrate our latest trainee who has secured a new paid job role! 

You have worked very hard to achieve this, and we are absolutely delighted that you have landed this amazing new job opportunity. We wish you the best of luck in your new career! 

At Entrust Pathway to Employment, we remain dedicated to supporting our trainees at every step of their career journey. We help individuals navigate the job search by matching opportunities to their individual skills and interests, and we build professional CVs that showcase their experience.

When an interview is secured, we practice interview techniques together, accompany the trainee, and act as their advocate. Once employment is secured, we continue to work alongside the employer to help the individual settle into their new role with confidence.

Our services include: 

• Support applying for Access to Work funding
• Tailored job coaching
• Ongoing support to maintain long-term employment

Our trainee enjoyed a fantastic experience at the beautiful Flower Funky shop, located in Stratford-upon-Avon.

• Exploring new stock
• Learning about creative workshops
• Practising vital customer service skills by serving customers and using the till. 

This hands-on experience provides our trainees with a fantastic window into the working world, helping them upskill, build confidence, and take huge steps towards becoming work ready and securing paid work.

We are incredibly proud of our Entrust Pathway To Employment trainees, who recently hosted an important event for 150 guests at the Town Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Taking charge of every single step, from pricing and event planning to baking delicious cakes in our workshops and receiving professional hospitality training. They looked remarkably smart, did an amazing job, and gained unforgettable, practical experience that will elevate their curriculum vitae. Our trainees had a wonderful paid opportunity which they will remember forever.

Well done to everyone that was involved!

Claire joined the Pathway to Employment with a huge desire to secure a paid job. She had been briefly employed in the past in a couple of jobs which hadn’t worked out.

A number of factors contributed to this, including the employer not understanding what reasonable adjustments would support Claire to do her job, not providing them, no on the job support to ensure she was successful, lack of understanding about disability and lack of disclosure about her additional learning needs.

Her focus during her time on the Pathway to Employment was learning to take her time, slow down, to learn skills systematically and to pay attention to the detail. Especially when searching for an appropriate job.

Claire received interview coaching and was accompanied to the interview by our Employment Development Manager to act as an advocate.

It was made clear that it was Claire’s interview and that having someone accompany her was simply as back up and to remind her of any key information she should share when talking about her skills and experience and to help her when talking about her additional learning needs and any reasonable adjustments needed.

Claire did fantastically well. Her passion for customer service shone through and really impressed her interviewer, Ginny O’Gorman. Ordinarily, Compass UK usually focuses on recruiting full time staff to work in their food service offering at Jaguar Land Rover.

However, Ginny said she could see Claire’s passion and potential, and with the knowledge she would be supported by the Pathway to Employment team and there were some reasonable adjustments, she knew Claire would be a great asset to her team.

Claire is now helping to trailblaze the use of Assistive Technology in the workplace via our partner Access Hospitality C.I.C to increase independence and reduce anxiety.

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Penny joined the Pathway to Employment with a passion for customer service. Having proved week on week that she understood how to provide great service to our customers in the community cafe, we asked her to support a couple of events.

Her confidence had grown and we knew she would be great. At our book launch, Penny welcomed everyone who attended, spoke to them, directed them to their seats and gave them information about how to buy the book. She did such a fantastic job and made everyone feel so welcome.

Getting to know Penny, her passion for customer service was clear but we also learnt that one of her interests was also a great passion, horse racing.

She has a huge amount of knowledge about the sport and loves to attend race days. We always want to help our Trainees find a job in an area they are passionate about, where possible, so we approached Stratford Race Course.

After an interview and a look around to meet some of the staff, Penny was offered a Race Day job. Such an exciting day.

Penny often works at one of the private events on the day, welcoming customers and making them comfortable. Penny really knows her racing and is incredibly knowledgeable about jockeys, horses and stables and can share that passion with the race day goers.

A late diagnosis and lack of support at school was compounded by the Covid Pandemic and the isolation that ensued. Jon’s mental health was suffering, his anxiety was high and his confidence was at an all time low.

He joined one of our 4 part online learning courses, very much in the background, during lockdown. This interaction inspired Jon to muster enough confidence, with the support of his family, to join the Entrust Care Partnership Pathway to Employment initiative once we were able to open our community cafes again.

During his 12 months on the Pathway to Employment, his confidence grew dramatically. We started slowly and he took time to notice the things which made him anxious and worked on ways to manage these feelings.

He said that coming to the cafe each week gave him purpose and a reason to get out of bed. This was the first step to his success.

Jon didn’t know what job he wanted to do so he worked with our Employment Development Manager to explore his personal skills and needs alongside his transferable skills.

They looked at different types of businesses, locations, hours and job tasks. He knew that having ADHD meant he worked best with a variety of tasks which can be repeated.

This was the start of the search. Jon had never had an interview but with coaching and support on the day, he shone and secured a role in a garden centre restaurant. His contract is now permanent and he is going from strength to strength.

* Trainee name changed to protect anonymity.