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Employment and Skills Partnership Alliance . Lyn Gardner July 2011. JHP Group - The Company. £70M+ turnover employing > 1,400 staff MBO in January 2010, LDC funded JHP in skills and employability as: a deliverer a sub contractor a manager of supply chain arrangements
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Employment and Skills Partnership Alliance Lyn Gardner July 2011
JHP Group - The Company • £70M+ turnover employing > 1,400 staff • MBO in January 2010, LDC funded • JHP in skills and employability as: • a deliverer • a sub contractor • a manager of supply chain arrangements • Strongly committed to our core values and core ethos • Staff: IiP Gold and IiP Champion • High quality, high success rates: Ofsted Grade 2 • Our values are our competitive advantage, conscience and map • And…underpin our strong commercial drive to reach and benefit lives of staff, learners and clients • Key and distinctive strengths in technology, IES, IWS and with performance in the top decile
Introduction • Skills • 2nd largest independent training provider • No 1 in Apprenticeships, NVQs, flexible – span Entry level to Level 5 • Work based learning and commercial training – employers • Employability • Awarded largest contract by Skills Funding Agency for Programmes for the Unemployed • DWP • awarded 7 ERSS framework contracts (maximum allowed) • Work Programme: 1 of just 18 prime providers • MWA: Scotland and NW
Our Vision: Work Programme It is NOT more of the same • To replicate or continue previous business models and practices will = FAILURE What is so radical? • It is the biggest transfer of risk to the private sector • Payment by results • Changing the focusfrom job search and placement to: • Holistic - understanding and meeting personal needs • Progression - personal and professional • Employer opportunity and support
Key to our success… • Partnership:77% delivery via our supply chain • Technology • Diagnostic tools feeding into online action plans, CVs • Job matching immediately (email, post and texting) • Case and employer management – matching and managing • MIS, client tracking and performance measurement • Staff development through our Virtual Academy • IES and IWS • Engaging with and meeting employer need • Creating opportunities with employers, developing people • Leadership and management • Staff : Induction and development programme (ND to WP, ‘can do’) • Regional Stakeholder engagement through convergence of government policy - ‘making work pay’