THE WEST GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020

The DFN Project SEARCH Interns and their supporting managers at Northwick Park Hospital ELIGIBILITY & APPLICATIONS INTRODUCTION

West London Boroughs are proud to Supported Internships in West London Supported Internships are open to all Shortlisted applicants will be invited to work with many employers and education have a track-record of great success in applicants with moderate learning disabilities attend a skills and capabilities assessment providers in West London to facilitate and enabling young people with learning (MLD) who are aged between 18 and 24 day (usually held between February support the establishment and development disabilities to gain direct work training on 31 August 2020 (some take applicants and May) where they will take part in a of supported internships and supported within top businesses, hotels, hospitals at 17) and who are keen to be offered paid short informal interview and be asked to employment initiatives. Over 300 young and other organisations leading directly to employment (not necessarily at the host participate in some given tasks. Successful people with learning disabilities are currently employment. They are part of an expanding business or organisation) at the end of the applicants will be enrolled as students undertaking these programmes in London number of initiatives for supported programme. Applicants must be able to at a Further Education College at the every year, with an average employment employment being organised and facilitated commit to the full length of the programme start of the autumn term (except for achievement rate of over 60%. The details by the West London Alliance in partnership (10 months) and attend 5 days a week (with those internships where a school or other of 27 of these programmes are contained in with major third-sector organisations, holidays). A full list of eligibility criteria and organisation is indicated as the education this booklet. further education colleges, local councils the application process for each internship partner), while the internship itself takes and experienced supported employment are available from the contact names listed place on the premises of the host business Supported Internships are designed to advisors and partners. with each programme. or organisation. develop transferable skills, knowledge and attitudes in preparation for paid Feedback from host businesses in West All applicants for a DFN Project SEARCH Parents and Carers are asked to supply any employment. Through training and direct London has been extremely positive. Public Supported Internship must either have an necessary information regarding allergies work experience young people will develop Health report that: “Our supported Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) in their applications as the interns are employability skills, self-confidence, job- interns have been remarkable. They bring provided through their Local Authority likely to be working with food and cleaning specific skills and Maths, English and ICT incredible benefits to the organisation and or be in the process of obtaining one. products during their rotations. Parents and skills whilst working alongside employees in we’re always telling other employers about Applicants must also be capable of travelling Carers are also expected to actively support a real employment setting. how good Supported Internships and DFN independently to and from their places of and assist their young people during their Project SEARCH are – it’s one of the most training and home, or be willing to be trained internships and their preparations and plans Classroom-based learning at the workplace important things we do as an organisation”. to do so. for employment. enables interns to try out different work roles, supported by a tutor and job coaches. The CEO of London North West University The Further Education Colleges and During the internships, the young people Healthcare NHS Trust, Dame Jacqueline Schools will hold open days or open will undertake employment planning and Docherty, said “Our interns are truely evenings about the Supported Internship(s) job application exercises designed to put as welcome at the Trust. Our hospital managers they offer, usually between December and many of them as possible in a position to and mentors are proud of the contribution March, to enable young people and their move directly into paid employment. made by the interns, who are impressively families to gain a better understanding of motivated. They have really bought into the the opportunities they can offer. The open Health Education England has been a key NHS Trust’s Values and Standards.” events are also a chance for interested supporter and sponsor of our programmes students and their families to ask questions and we express our grateful thanks to them. and to submit application forms.

2 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 3 Interested applicants should contact West London Application forms should be requested from College for an application pack for 2020/21 and details of Supported Learning Department, DFN Project the Open Evening on 27th January 2020 and a Skills and SEARCH, , London Road, Assessment day in February 2020. Ideally they should Isleworth TW7 4HS and submitted by early April. have an interest in the hospitality industry or some experience of the sector. Interns will be based at the LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT hotel during term time throughout the academic year. TERMINAL 5

HILTON TERMINAL 5 GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at the Hilton London Heathrow The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at GSK Headquarters Airport Terminal 5

ADDRESS The Hilton Hotel Terminal 5 is a top-quality airport ADDRESS Key vocational skills and work experience Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 5, hotel offering a wide range of work experience GSK House, 980 Great West Road, opportunities offered at GSK include: Poyle Road, Colnbrook SL3 0FF and training opportunities for young people with Brentford TW8 9GS learning disabilities through supported internship • Office Administrationmanaging data and CONTACT rotations which cover many internal hotel CONTACT booking meeting rooms Angie Hincks operations and customer-facing services. Lorna Misra • Catering Assistant till work in the restaurant & Fulham College 07506 195 863 and Deli, and shelf stocking [email protected] Key vocational skills and work experience [email protected] • Barista making coffees, serving customers, and opportunities offered at the hotel include: till work Steve Poole FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Grounds Maintenance mowing, raking and Mencap • Food and Beverage working in the restaurant, West Thames College pruning [email protected] serving food to guests and clearing tables • Bike Shop and Workshop cleaning bikes, • Kitchen preparing food and re-stocking SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER making repairs, assisting in the shop FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER breakfast options Springboard UK • Reception customer service, logging faults, • Housekeeping cleaning public areas and room checks and using booking systems bedrooms, linen separation SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Hospitality laying out food for meetings, SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER • Back of House helping with deliveries and stock Hounslow Council washing up and stock control Ealing Mencap storage, supporting staff restaurant • Audio Visual laying out rooms for conferences, • Concierge greeting guests, giving hotel PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 setting up a/v equipment, providing technical SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY information and luggage porter duties support Slough Borough Council • Meeting and Events assisting set up of events, DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Housekeeping restocking, cleaning vending serving food to event clients at breaks and areas and lift lobbies PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 servicing meeting rooms GSK pioneered Supported Internships in West • Security Checking visitors booking list, • Maintenance general hotel maintenance and London with Project SEARCH and has successfully patrolling the building, directing visitors DATE September 2020 to July 2021 painting enabled many interns to graduate to paid and deliveries employment since 2012. Based at GSK’s Global • Fitness Centre greeting customers,sorting and Headquarters building in Brentford, the rotation tidying, taking bookings, and paperwork opportunities include work experience and training • Mailroom and Loading Bay sorting post, coding in a wide variety of administrative and service letters to room numbers, delivering parcels, roles. sorting stationery cupboard and receiving goods-in

4 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 5 WEST LONDON NHS TRUST CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL Project Choice Supported Internship The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Charing Cross Hospital

ADDRESS This is a new internship and expressions of interest ADDRESS Key vocational skills and work experience Trust Headquarters, 1 Armstrong Way, , should be made to Lindsay Mc Cafferty. Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, opportunities offered at the hospital include: Middlesex UB2 4SD Hammersmith, London W6 8RF The Trust will host an Open Day and Evening Event • Theatre Health Care Assistant cleaning medical CONTACT for students and their families to visit the Trust and CONTACT sets and scanning equipment in and out of Lindsay McCafferty meet mentors in early 2020. This will be followed by Jasmine Giles theatres 07864 973 346 a recruitment day where potential candidates will (On-site Lecturer, Charing Cross Hospital) • Administration Assistant data inputting, filing [email protected] be invited to interview and to undertake some basic 07860 754 014 and booking appointments for patients skills based tasks. [email protected] • Domestics Operative following infection control SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER procedures to maintain cleanliness on the wards Project Choice, Health Education England Key vocational skills and work experience FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Ward Host taking food orders and serving opportunities offered at the trust include: College of North West London patients SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Back of House Operative packing food for Ealing Council • Learning and Knowledge Assistant meeting SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNERS patients and stock rotation and greeting customers, taking photos to produce Action on Disability and Kaleidoscope – Sabre • Pathology – Call Centre delivering results to PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 ID badges and Data Entry of training attendance professionals via fax, telephone and email • Library Support work with our Librarian to SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Porter transporting patients, operating lifts and DATE September 2020 to July 2021 ensure the space is tidy, well organised by Brent Council accepting jobs on the intercom checking shelves. Also providing good customer • Post Room Assistant sorting and delivering post West London NHS Trust are one of the most service to our customers PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 around the hospital diverse Trusts in London and pride ourselves on • Administration Support Worker providing basic • Store Person managing the stock rooms being an inclusive employer offering a wide range typing, shredding, sending emails DATE September 2020 to July 2021 on the wards of employment opportunities. We provide both • Payroll Administrator data inputting, telephone physical and mental healthcare to the boroughs of skills, sorting post The Supported Internship at this world-famous Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow. • Receptionist customer service, booking rooms, general teaching hospital provides a wide variety giving out parking permits, setting up rooms of training and work experience in clinical, We have been offering work experience to students • Finance Administrator data entry, working in a administrative and facilities management from Belvue College for over a year and have in team, filing, post, photocopying departments working with the NHS Trust and its place excellent support for students. • Recruitment Admin Support supporting our partner Sodexo. recruitment team with the administration of new employees Candidates should be capable of travelling • Single Point of Access Call Centre Supports independently, or be prepared to undergo supporting using the telephone, photocopying, training to manage their journey to the hopsital shredding and scanning, meeting visitors independently.

6 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 7 L’Oréal and Hammersmith & Fulham Council will hold an Open Day. If you would like to attend please contact Angie Hincks at West London College for details (email below).

L’ORÉAL & HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM COUNCIL The Supported Internships at L’Oréal and Hammersmith & Fulham Council Key vocational skills and work experience opportunities offered at L’Oréal, Hammersmith & Fulham Council and other organisations within the Borough are listed below:

ADDRESSES ENTRY CRITERIA Interns must: Roles at L’Oréal include: Roles at Chelsea Football Club include: L’Oréal, 255 Hammersmith Road, • Be aged between 17-24 on 31st August 2020 • Post Room delivering parcels, franking post, • Assisting with training courses including London W6 8AZ and eligible to work in the UK data inputting and room set up hospitality, stewarding and catering • Have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan • Reception meet and greet Hammersmith & Fulham Council, • Be enthusiastic about the world of work, • In the Academy assisting hairdressers in training Roles at Nando’s include: 3 Shortlands, Hammersmith W6 8DA employment being the main focus and aspiring • Catering at L’Oréal Café stocking the fridges, • Using the till greeting and seating customers and other sites within the Borough to secure competitive employment cleaning, serving food, making teas and coffees, • Serving food and also working in the kitchen • Have their Parents or Carers sharing in the and using the till CONTACT aspiration for employment and helping to give Roles at Cambridge School in Shepherd’s Bush Angie Hincks (Supported Internship support Roles at Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s include: Coordinator, West London College) • Be able to commit to the full length of the offices include: • Admin filing documents, greeting visitors and [email protected] programmes (September 2020 – June 2021) and • Post Room sorting and delivering the post assisting with signing in/out work 5 days a week (with holidays) • Registrars prepare a range of different official • Site Maintenance gardening support, keeping FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Be willing to learn to travel independently or documents the school grounds safe for children West London College be supported to do so • Facilities learning how the Council’s offices are • Classroom & Sports/PE Assistant support • Have a positive attitude to gaining new skills kept clean and safe enabling learning in the classroom SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER and receiving instruction and follow the host • SEND Department assisting with meeting • Kitchen & Classroom Assistant work serving Action on Disability organisation’s rules of conduct and presentation notes, scanning and photocopying food, cleaning and tidying eating areas • Working with St. Quintin’s learning how to SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY APPLICATIONS set up a range of activities for children with Roles at The Haven Care Centre include: Hammersmith & Fulham Council All applicants will be short listed and then invited disabilities • Kitchen and housekeeping helping prepare hot to attend a skills and assessment day where they lunches, cleaning, hoovering and laundry PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 will take part in a short informal interview with host Roles at Hammersmith Library include: organisations (see opposite) and will be asked to • Archiving documents and supporting Roles at the Stephen Wiltshire Centre include: DATE September 2020 to June 2021 participate in some given tasks. customers to print and scan • Admin assisting with signing in and out and • Library Services shelving books, despatching general admin Successful applicants will be enrolled as students and returning books at West London College at the start of the term in • School Sessions Roles at Jack Tizard School in Shepherd’s Bush September 2020. include: Roles at Endemol Shine include: • Classroom assistance supporting children at If you would like an information pack or any further • Administration searching credits on Reality lunchtimes and playtimes and helping on information please contact: Angie Hincks, Supported TV programmes, filing and data entry school trips Internship Coordinator at West London College email [email protected]

8 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 9 Completed application forms should be requested from and submitted by early April 2020 to the Supported Learning Department, DFN Project SEARCH, West Thames College, London Road, Isleworth TW7 4HS.

WEST HOSPITAL HOUNSLOW COUNCIL The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at West Middlesex The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Hounslow Council University Hospital

ADDRESS We apply a specialist, autism-friendly approach to ADDRESS Key vocational skills and work experience Twickenham Road, Isleworth TW7 6AF support our interns on site, though we are open London Borough of Hounslow, opportunities offered at Hounslow Council include: to working with young people with other special Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, CONTACTS educational needs. Hounslow TW3 3EB • Office Administration data entry, scanning Neeta Singh documents [email protected] Application forms may be requested by emailing CONTACT • Cafe working in the coffee shop, serving [email protected] Nicky Bitar (Business Liaison) customers Oscar Suarez Milian 020 8583 6144 • Facilities Management portering, issuing [email protected] Key vocational skills and work experience [email protected] ID badges, security opportunities offered at the hospital include: • Emergency Planning administration duties EDUCATION PARTNER FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Reception customer service, using booking • Health Records picking and filing health records West Thames College systems, signposting customers • Catering Stores picking and packing meals and • WorkSmart monitoring room bookings, SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY delivering to wards SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER checking audio equipment, reporting faults Hammersmith & Fulham Council • Finance assisting finance team with DB capture Springboard UK • Library Assistant customer service, stocking and scanning shelves, dealing with queries PLACEMENTS PLANNED 8 • Ward Host taking patient orders and SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Care Work supporting disabled residents in the serving meals Hounslow Council day centre and community DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Waste Management removing litter from wards and recycling PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 West Middlesex University Hospital, part of the • Restaurant Assistant clearing tables and trays, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation restocking, recycling DATE September 2020 to July 2021 Trust, has partnered with Queensmill School, an • Laundry delivering and collecting scrubs and autism-specific provision, to give young people with linens to and from wards The vision for future local government in autism and learning difficulties an opportunity to • Ward Reception administration, filing records, Hounslow is as a community leader, not simply develop their skills within a real work environment photocopying, data entry a provider of services. It will continue to be an as well as work towards an ASDAN award in enabling Council, working in partnership with the employibility. Application forms may be requested local community, voluntary and statutory agencies, by emailing [email protected] and the private sector to maximise social and economic development in the borough.

10 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 11 Applications are welcome from November 2019 to Applications are welcome from November 2019 to July 2020. Open Days will be held from January 2020 July 2020. Open Days will be held from January 2020 through to June with information on the skills and through to June with information on the skills and interview days given at the Open Days. interview days given at the Open Days.

PAVILIONS SUPPORTED INTERNSHIP HARROW RETAIL The Supported Internship based at the Pavilions, Uxbridge Supported Internship

ADDRESS When requesting an application pack, interested ADDRESS This supported internship is for young people 18 Chequers Square, Uxbridge UB8 1LN and partly young people will be informed of dates of Pavilions Harrow Youth Stop, The Twenty One Building, interested in working in a retail environment. When at Uxbridge Library, 13-14 High Street, UB8 1HD Supported Internship Open Days when they can Ground Floor, 21 Pinner Road, Harrow HA1 4ES requesting an application pack, interested young visit the Pavilions Centre meet the team, and people will be informed of the dates of the Open CONTACT find out more about this exciting retail supported CONTACTS Days when they can visit the Harrow retail centres, Stella Pakapouka internship. The Pavilions Supported Internship is a Saimmah Ali 07714 736 748 meet the team and find out more information 07795 684 809 [email protected] retail supported internship based 5 days a week at [email protected] about this exciting retail supported internship. the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Uxbridge. Young EDUCATION PARTNER people wishing to apply will need to attend an Elizabeth Ajewole 07920 273 586 For young people interested in applying for Ixion Holdings (Apprenticeship and training Open Day, complete the application form found in [email protected] this Internship please phone or request by provider, part of the Shaw Trust Group) the application and send it to Elizabeth Ajewole at: email the Harrow Retail application pack from [email protected] EDUCATION PARTNER [email protected] SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER Young people who apply will be invited for an Ixion Holdings (Apprenticeship and training Or call Elizabeth Ajewole: 07920 273 586/ Prospects Services (part of the Shaw Trust Group). interview to discuss the internship with the Pavilions provider, part of the Shaw Trust Group) Saimmah Ali 07714 736 748. Key vocational skills Application pending for registration and listing as team. Parents can attend the Open Day and come and work experience opportunities offered at this an SPI under Section 41 of the Children and on the interview day. This is an exciting opportunity SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER internship include: Families Act 2014. giving interns the opportunity to learn about the Prospects Services (part of the Shaw Trust Group). different roles in the retail environment and gain the Application pending for registration and listing as • Customer Service responding to customer SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY skills to obtain work in retail or related work. an SPI under Section 41 of the Children and retail enquiries, taking payments and operating Hillingdon Council Families Act 2014. the till, checking and replacing shop stock • Customer Service responding to customer retail • Business Admin office-based tasks, sending PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 enquiries, taking payments and operating the till, SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY emails, responding to telephone queries, checking checking and replacing shop stock Harrow Council orders and monitoring shop product lines DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Business Admin office-based tasks, sending • Warehouse stock control, processing deliveries emails, responding to telephone queries, checking PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 of stock, placing orders, replacing products on the ACCEPTANCE AND ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA orders and monitoring shop product lines shop floor EHCP is required. Age group 18-24 • Warehouse stock control, processing deliveries DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Hospitality making and serving hot and cold of stock, placing orders, replacing products on the drinks, preparing sandwiches and other cold For young people interested in applying for the shop floor ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA foods, taking payments and operating the till, Pavilions Supported Internship, the application • Hospitality making and serving hot and cold An EHCP is required. Age group 18-24. Travel cleaning customer areas and washing up and process will involve the following steps. Please drinks, preparing sandwiches and other cold training can be provided to enable individual tidying kitchen space phone or request by email the Pavilions application foods, taking payments and operating the till, travelling to and from home and the Shopping • Maintenance repair and maintenance of pack from supportedinternship-london@prospects. cleaning customer areas and washing up and Centres. equipment in a retail centre, ensuring equipment co.uk or call Elizabeth Ajewole on 07920 273 586. tidying kitchen space in the centre is in good working order

12 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 13 Skills assessment and interviews will be held on the An Open day will take place on 28th January 13th and 14th January 2020. For more information 2020. Please contact the programme for further and to register your interest please contact Oliver information. Dixon at .

NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON & CHELSEA The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Northwick Park Hospital RBKC Supported Internship programme

ADDRESS • Admin Assistant working in a variety of ADDRESS Roles at Kensington Town Hall include: Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, departments tasks include data inputting, filing Based at Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, • Post Room delivering parcels, franking post, Harrow HA1 3UJ and scanning, photocopying, answering the Kensington, London W8 7NX data inputting and room set up telephone, booking patient appointments and • Customer Service greeting and supporting CONTACT general admin duties CONTACTS residents of the borough Oliver Dixon (Foundation Learning) • Restaurant Operative restocking of food items, Angie Hincks • Catering stock replenishment 020 8909 6317 [email protected] clearing and cleaning tables, refilling paper towels, [email protected] • Administration & IT in various offices sweeping and mopping, restocking cutlery and within RBKC FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER serving customers Rachel Edwards Harrow College • At Subway kitchen portering, cleaning utensils, [email protected] Roles at Nando’s include: preparing food for customers, maintaining a clean • Server taking orders and serving SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNERS environment, serving customers FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Cleaning & Preparation prepping and cleaning Kaleidoscope-Sabre • Medical Library conduct functional checks on West London College customer and staff areas medical devices, clean and sterilise, configure • Cashier taking customers orders and handling SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY data displays on the machines, book and collect SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER payments Harrow Council faulty instruments and send off for repair Action on Disibility • Housekeeping control of stock, replenishing, Roles at the Design Museum include: PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 medical equipment supply, collecting deliveries PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 • Hosting welcoming visitors and issuing and transferring goods to wards tickets DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Domestic Stores Person picking & packing DATE September 2020 to July 2021 domestic stock for wards. Packing cages and Northwick Park Hospital is part of London North delivering stock around the hospital. Keeping the ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA West University Healthcare NHS Trust, one of stockroom tidy and helping with regular stock Aged 17-24. EHC plan and eligible to work in the the largest integrated healthcare trusts in the takes UK. Working around entry 1 to Level 1 English country. Key vocational skills and work experience • Ward Host taking food orders, preparing patient and maths. Capable of travelling independently opportunities here are: meals, making tea and coffee, following food to their workplace (with travel training). Real safety procedures, cleaning the ward kitchen and aspirations to progress into paid employment Health Care Assistant Roles these roles are on liaising with patient dining staff (and this is a realistic outcome after the 11 month wards and in various clinics in the hospital, including • Patient Dining Operative picking and packing programme). Able to commit to the full length of the Moorfields Eye Centre. HCA’s support clinical food orders for patient meals, stock rotation, the programme (September 2020 – June 2021), staff to carry out patient observations and checks matching food order paperwork to deliveries and to demonstrate a positive attitude to gaining such as blood pressure and temperature. They also • Porter transporting patients, accepting jobs on new skills, receiving instructions, and following attend to personal care needs of patients the radio and via written request forms, moving host organisations’ rules. equipment

14 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 15 For young people interested in applying for the An Open day will be held on 4th February 2020 at Copthorne Supported Internship, the application Westminster City Hall. For further information process will involve the following steps. Please phone please contact Phil Bunce or Rachel Edwards. or request by email the Copthorne application pack from: [email protected]. Or call: Saimmah Ali 07714 736 748.

COPTHORNE TARA HOTEL WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL Supported Internship Westminster City Council’s Supported Internship with City of Westminster College

ADDRESS This is an exciting opportunity to learn about the ADDRESS A wide range of opportunities will be available Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London, W8 5SR different roles in the hospitality environment and Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, through Westminster City Council, providing a gain the skills to obtain work in hospitality or London SW1E 6QP broad range of experience for interns. Examples of CONTACTS related work. Young people wishing to apply will potential rotations are: Fitzroy Lewinson (Tutor) 07776 041 629 need to attend an open day and complete the CONTACTS [email protected] application form found in the application pack, Phil Bunce • Administration (Licensing, Economy, obtainable at the open day. [email protected] National Portrait Gallery) Elena Dragonova (Job Coach) 07584 205 020: • Facilities Management meeting room set up [email protected] Young people who apply will be invited to attend Rachel Edwards • ICT archiving a skills day and interview to discuss the internship [email protected] • Catering (The Camden Society Unity Kitchen, EDUCATION PARTNER with the Copthorne team. Parents can attend the Elior canteen, Planet Organic central kitchen) Ixion Holdings (Apprenticeship and training provider, Open Day and come on the skills/interview day. FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • Planet Organic Retail tills, deliveries, stock part of the Shaw Trust Group) City of Westminster College replenishment, online shopping orders • Concierge (Front of House) responding to • Deliveries (GEM Building Services) SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER guest enquiries, taking luggage and guests who SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER • Horticulture Natural History Museum Urban Prospects Services (part of the Shaw Trust Group). are checking in or out, supporting the successful Westminster Employment Garden Application pending for registration and listing as running of the reception area • Front of House Events (Economy events/ an SPI under Section 41 of the Children and Families • Housekeeping preparing rooms for guests, SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY schools, Lord Mayor’s Parlour) Act 2014. cleaning the public areas – brasserie and breakfast Westminster City Council rooms including hoovering and cleaning SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Warehouse Stock Control processing deliveries PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of of stock, placing orders, replacing products on the Kensington and Chelsea shop floor DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Kitchen preparing food, cutting, chopping fruit PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 for 2020/21 and vegetables; setting up and clearing of food ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA courts, preparing cold meals such as salads, fruit Aged 16-24. EHC plan. Working around entry ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA cocktails for serving; cleaning cutlery and floors; 1 to Level 1 English and maths. Capable of An EHCP is required. Age group 18-24. Travel making and serving hot and cold drinks, preparing travelling independently to their workplace (with training can be provided to enable individual sandwiches and other cold foods Travel Training). Aspirations to progress into paid travelling to and from the hotel. • Maintenance repair and maintenance of employment. equipment in the guest rooms and around the The Copthorne Tara Supported Internship is a hotel, ensuring equipment in the hotel is in good hospitality supported internship based 5 days a working order including plumbing, painting and week at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in Kensington. decorating, simple electrical tasks

16 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 17 Open Evenings for young people, parents and carers to learn more about the Supported Internship at the Marriott will be held on Thursday 23rd January 2020 at 6pm and Monday MARRIOTT 10th February 2020 at 6pm at the Hotel. LONDON HEATHROW

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND MARRIOTT HOTEL The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Public Health England The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at the Marriott London (PHE) Colindale Heathrow hotel

ADDRESS Their main laboratories and offices at Colindale ADDRESS The London Heathrow Marriott Hotel is a top- Public Health England, 61 Colindale Avenue, offer significant work training opportunities Bath Road, Harlington, Hayes UB3 5AN quality airport hotel offering a wide range of work London NW9 5EQ in laboratory and facilities management experience and training opportunities for young environments. CONTACT people with learning disabilities covering many CONTACT Andy Bunker (Assistant Head) internal hotel operations and customer-facing [email protected] Key vocational skills and work experience Meadow High School, Hillingdon services. opportunities offered at the laboratories and [email protected] FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER offices include: Key vocational skills and work experience Barnet and Southgate College EDUCATION PARTNER opportunities offered at the hotel include: • Glass Preparation assisting in the washing and Meadow High School 01895 443 310 SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER sterilisation of glassware for laboratory use • Engineering Daily site patrols and basic The Tottenham Hotspur Foundation • Laboratory Support ensuring laboratory SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNERS maintenance tasks equipment is calibrated Education Development Trust and Prospects • Housekeeping porterage, cleaning bedrooms SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Audio Visual providing support to the Audio and public areas Barnet Council Visual Manager SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Food and Beverage clearing tables, restocking • Print Room using multifunctional devices and a Hillingdon Council items and setting up for next service PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 variety of binding techniques • Administration sorting credit card receipts, • Warehouse Operative assisting in the picking PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 data input, printing/laminating documents DATE September 2020 to July 2021 of stock for customer orders and delivering • Goods Receiving checking deliveries, labelling them DATE September 2020 to July 2021 and storing food items, rotating stock and Application forms should be requested from • Media Preparation packing, cleaning and cleaning food storage areas [email protected] and submitted by sterilisation of glassware Applicants need to: • Leisure reception duties, maintaining a 31st March 2020. • Media Dispatch dispatch of growth and supply of towels, checking and cleaning gym nutrient media to customers • Maintain appropriate behaviour equipment, tidying changing rooms Public Health England is established to protect • Waste Management collecting and recording and social skills in the workplace • Conference and Banqueting set-up and and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing of clinical waste and recycling • Have independent personal clearance of refreshment breaks, restocking and reduce health inequalities. PHE is an executive • Admin Support for procurement functions hygiene and grooming ability items and refreshing meeting rooms agency, sponsored by the Department of Health. • Take direction from supervisors and modify performance • Be able to communicate effectively • Desire and plan to enter work at the conclusion of the internship

18 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 19 You can download a City and Islington college application form from www.candi.ac.uk or pop along to any City and Islington College Campus. You can also come along to an open day – contact Nikki Russell for details of this. Completed application forms can be handed in FAO Nikki Russell to the 444 Camden Road campus or scan and email the form to [email protected]

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CAMDEN COUNCIL GO into Employment – DFN Project SEARCH @ GOSH Internship Programme

ADDRESS Contact Nikki Russell for an informal chat / visit to ADDRESS This internship is for young people aged 18-24 Great Ormond Street Hospital, the classroom for further information. We cater for 5 Pancras Square, Kings Cross, with an EHC plan and Camden residents only. Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH a range of special educational needs and disabilities. London N1C 4AG Interns should be around entry level to Level 1 English and Maths and capable of travelling CONTACT • Ward Housekeeper preparing meal trays CONTACTS independently to their workplace (with Travel Nikki Russell (DFN Project SEARCH Tutor) for children, serving meals, working with the [email protected] Training if needed) and with the aspiration to [email protected] pharmacy team, cleaning & remaking beds, progress into paid employment (and this is a topping up gloves and aprons Gisele Jumpp realistic outcome) after the 10-month programme. FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER • HR Reception meet and greet people, scan [email protected] City and Islington College documents for new staff, set up meeting rooms, 020 7974 3061 Key vocational skills and work experience photocopying, take messages opportunities offered at this internship include: SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PROVIDER • MRI – Housekeeper cleaning toys and surfaces Lynne Barnes Kaleidoscope-Sabre in the sedation and recovery rooms, topping up [email protected] • Customer Services Assistant based in trolleys with bandages etc, cleaning kitchen 020 7974 4358 libraries, processing new and existing stock, SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • X-Ray – Reception folding appointment letters using the library management system, tidying Camden Council and putting in to envelopes, using the Tannoy FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER books and audio items on shelves to announce patients, writing the waiting time Westminster Kingsway College • Activity Support Services working in adult PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 on the whiteboard, handing out family feedback day service to prepare rooms, materials and forms to parents and patients, filing SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER equipment for activities DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Main Kitchen – Commis Chef, Kitchen To be confirmed • First Contact Support Officer guide Assistant / Pizza Bar Chef preparing ingredients customers to navigate the building Applicants must have an EHCP and be 18-24. They will for soups, pizzas, and items needed for restaurant SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • General Assistant maintaining and cleaning be enrolled as students at City and Islington College. service, breakfast prep, portioning, helping sort Camden Council facilities at GLL Better gym ward orders for patients • Office Administration preparing materials An Open Evening is planned, followed by a • Interventional Radiology Housekeeper PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 for training sessions, maintaining a social media Recruitment Day where potential candidates will be topping up stock, cleaning trolleys, cleaning presence invited in for interview and to undertake some basic surfaces in the labs DATE September 2020 to July 2021 skills-based tasks. • Theatres Anaesthetic Stock Room Assistant handing out stock lists and collecting and Camden supported internship offers a range of Applicants who are offered a place must attend City delivering stock to the Anaesthetic rooms placement opportunities within Camden. If you and Islington College to do a DBS application and • Catering – Restaurant Catering Assistant are interested in this internship, please request complete an honorary contract with Great Ormond restocking drinks, sandwiches snacks, stock an Expression of Interest form and submit an Street Hospital and have Occupational Health take, cleaning tables and serving, helping in the application by the end of April 2020. clearance prior to starting. coffee bar

20 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 21 HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & HACKNEY COUNCIL MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internships The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Moorfields Eye Hospital

ADDRESSES Applicants should be capable of travelling ADDRESS Key vocational skills and work experience Homerton University Hospital, Homerton Row, independently or, with the assistance of travel Moorfields Eye Hospital opportunities offered at the hospital include: Clapton, London E9 6SR and training, would be capable of travelling independently 162 City Road, London EC1V 2PD Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, London E8 IEA to and from home and the training venues. Key • Portering patient transportation, phone skills and other council venues vocational skills and work experience opportunities CONTACT and customer service skills offered through these placements include: Emma Lord (DFN Project SEARCH Tutor) • Admin skills e.g. data entry, presentations, CONTACT 07458 003 795 [email protected] reception skills and using the phone Alison Miller • Museum Assistant registering, inspecting and • Maintenance learning a range of trade skills to 020 8356 6575 [email protected] archiving historical artifacts. Learning how to do FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER carry out repairs in the hospital inventory, audits, learning the use of a database City and Islington College • Theatre Healthcare Assistant sterilising surgical EDUCATION PARTNER and its function kits, assisting the medical team to prepare for Brook House Sixth Form College (BSix) • Data/Administration scanning, recording and SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER surgeries archiving documentation and files on database Kaleidoscope-Sabre • Kitchen Porter/Catering Assistant customer SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER and on shelves service on the private patient ward, preparing and Hackney Works Supported Employment • Hospitality food preparation in kitchens. Health SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY delivering food orders, cleaning and hygiene information Islington Council • Domestic Assistant ensuring all clinical and SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Receptions customer service, using ITC, sending public areas are clean at all times. Tasks include Hackney Council (Learning Trust) and checking emails, using a database to input PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 sweeping, high dusting and using chemicals to information and checking accuracy clean specific areas PLACEMENTS PLANNED 24 • Stores processing incoming orders against DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Meet and Greet Receptionist maintaining delivery notes and ensuring products are correct, the busy meet & greet areas in A&E, assisting DATE September 2020 to July 2021 contacting or taking deliveries to the correct An Open Evening is to be held in early 2020, patients to check-in to appointments and department followed by a Recruitment Day where potential giving directions These two Supported Internships are offering 24 • Mayor Office identifying the correct department candidates will be invited to interview and to • Barista in Costa Coffee making and serving placements to young people who are residents of to address correspondence. Responding to undertake some basic skills-based tasks. hot drinks, cleaning the cutlery and dishes and Hackney or members of the Hackney LAC team. complaints and dealing with resident queries. providing customer service They are shared between two different organisations Learning about council resources services to best Applicants must be aged 16-24 and have an EHCP and spread across 3-4 different sites including inform residents with enquiries by responding via and a desire to gain employment at the end of the Homerton Hospital and Hackney Council venues. email and letters programme. For Open Day information and application forms • HR supporting HR team with documentation please contact Alison Miller using the email address via scanning and filing information using the Please contact Emma Lord using the email address above. Applications are now open for September electronic Database or phone number above to register your interest in 2020 entry. • Planning inputting information into a database, the programme and she can share this information Uploading and emailing relevant parties or organise an informal visit to the site.

22 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 23 WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at the Whittington Hospital The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at the North Middlesex University Hospital

ADDRESS Please contact admissions@ambitiousaboutautism. ADDRESS Following receipt of your application we may ask Whittington Hospital, Magdala Avenue, org.uk for an application form. You can also North Middlesex University Hospital, you to come for a short skills assessment and Archway, London N19 5NF come along to one of our open events – Sterling Way, Edmonton, London N18 1QX interview for you to demonstrate your enthusiasm contact Gemma Mullan or Stacia Neverson to gain work through this skills training opportunity. CONTACTS [email protected] for dates and CONTACT Gemma Mullan information. Lucy Edwards (Programme Instructor) Please note you need to be capable of independent 07472 521 805 [email protected] travel to enrol on this programme. [email protected] Completed application forms can be scanned and emailed to [email protected]. FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER Key vocational skills and work experience Ambitious College Admissions Team uk or posted FAO Admissions, The Pears National The College of Haringey, Enfield & North East opportunities offered at the hospital include: [email protected] Centre for Autism Education, Woodside Avenue, London London N10 3JA. • Librarian Assistant organising books, customer EDUCATION PARTNER SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER service, helping set up rooms for training events Ambitious College Key vocational skills and work experience The Tottenham Hotspur Foundation • HR Department archiving files, adding opportunities offered at the hospital include: information onto Excel SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Pharmacy Department stock replenishing, Springboard • Reception customer service, booking Haringey Council checking prescriptions and collecting medication appointments, preparing files for clinics • Pharmacy Department booking in patients, PLACEMENTS PLANNED 10 • Administration data entry, preparing files, PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 customer services and admin tasks booking appointments • Outpatients greeting clients, providing DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Retail working in the hospital shop DATE September 2020 to July 2021 directions, helping patients use self-service • Control areas conducting audits, reporting machine and completing admin tasks The role will be based at the Whittington faults and breakages Applications are welcome from residents of • Oncology Receptionist greeting patients at the Hospital five days a week. In addition to work • Health Records Admin picking out and filing Haringey and Enfield Boroughs who hold valid EHC desk, providing directions, archiving files experience, interns will work towards a recognised health records Plans. We may accept applications from other • X-Ray Receptionist booking in appointments, employability qualification and develop their • Learning and Development admin assistant Boroughs depending on the volume of applications booking GP requests and folding letters English and maths skills. Read more information making induction packs, updating training logs, we receive. • E-Rostering adding staff annual leave and on Ambitious College’s website: www. booking rooms for events and meetings sickness on the system ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/parents-hub/ • Portering transporting patients, accepting jobs Please apply online at: supported-internships over the radio https://www.conel.ac.uk/courses/supported- learning/116-entry-level/1666-supported- internship-entry-level-3.html

24 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 25 We have also had interns working towards a Health Care Assistant role where they would be more involved with patient care and undertaking minor clinical tasks such as checking blood sugar, and blood pressure and attending to some personal care needs.

ST GEORGE’S HOSPITAL BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at St George’s Hospital The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship at Whipps Cross University Hospital

ADDRESS Please request an application form by the end of ADDRESS Barts Health NHS Trust running the DFN Project St George’s Hospital, Blackshaw Road, November 2019 for interviews on the 17th & 18th Whipps Cross University Hospital SEARCH model in partnership with Whitefield Tooting, London SW17 0QT December 2019. Candidates may be accepted after Whipps Cross Road, Leytonstone E11 1NR Academy Trust, Kaleidoscope Sabre and Waltham this date if there are spaces available. Young people Forest Council has established one of the most CONTACT will need to have an EHCP or be in the process of CONTACTS successful Project SEARCH internship programmes Amy Vinall obtaining one and be between the ages of 18-24 Janet Wingate-Whyte in the UK offering a wide and diverse range [email protected] years old. Whitefield Academy Trust of placements leading to meaningful and 07947 761 483 sustainable jobs. EDUCATION PARTNER Key vocational skills and work experience [email protected] Cricket Green School, Lower Green West, opportunities offered at the hospital include: Key vocational skills and work training Mitcham, London CR4 3AF Anna Cotton opportunities offered at the hospital include: • Administration photocopying and collating [email protected] SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER training packs • Administrative sorting patient notes and To be confirmed • Portering moving patients within the hospital in EDUCATION PARTNER making and taking phone calls wheelchairs or beds Whitefield Academy Trust • Technical working in medical engineering and SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITIES • Reception directing patients to the correct the equipment library Merton and Wandsworth Councils clinics, registering Blue Badges and using SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER • Portering moving patients and equipment the phone Kaleidoscope – Sabre around the hospital PLACEMENTS PLANNED 7 • Scanning transferring medical records onto the • Ward Based restocking equipment, Friends and computer SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY Family survey DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Medical Records finding and returning the files Waltham Forest Borough Council • Ward Host serving and preparing food needed for clinics • Laboratory booking and logging samples and This internship is open to residents of Wandsworth • Theatre Portering moving patients within PLACEMENTS PLANNED 13 specimens and Merton. theatre departments, collecting Blood and • Outpatients reception and booking Oxygen DATE September 2020 to July 2021 appointments St George’s Hospital is one of the UK’s largest • Retail University Shop-stocking the shelves, • Food Preparation preparing food pots and teaching hospitals. Run by the St George’s operating the tills delivering meals University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, • Macmillan Cancer Support services- • Portering moving patients and equipment the hospital offers general tertiary care, such as distributing support information leaflets around around the hospital accident and emergency, maternity services and the hospital to different wards care for older people and children. As a major acute treatment hospital, St George’s Hospital also offers specialist care for more complex injuries and illnesses.

26 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 27 All Newham residents who are interested can refer themselves directly to Workplace or Newham College. The service is only for Newham residents running September 2020 to July 2021.

QUEEN MARY NEWHAM LONDON The DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship Programme at The Newham Supported Internship Programme (NSIP) Queen Mary University with DFN Project SEARCH at Newham University Hospital

ADDRESS The deadline for applications for this Supported ADDRESS All Newham residents who are interested can refer Mile End Road, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS Internship will be in February 2020 (Date TBC). London Borough of Newham, Workplace themselves directly to Workplace or Newham 112-118 The Grove, Stratford, London E15 1NS College. The service is only for Newham residents. CONTACT Candidates are required to have an EHCP and be Elizabeth Robinson aged between 16-24. CONTACTS • Library Duties stocking/labelling, issuing books, [email protected] Joseph Kunyeda stocking bookshelves, cleaning bookshelves and Key vocational skills and work experience [email protected] other surfaces, issuing library cards, customer care EDUCATION PARTNER opportunities offered at the University include: • Catering setting tables, using tills, washing up, Phoenix School/College Jean Cole [email protected] restocking fridges with drinks and sandwiches, • Food preparation for lunch service Barista Cafe, salads, cleaning tables and other SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER • Serving customers food during lunch FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER surfaces, customer service, clearing cutlery and Kaleidoscope-Sabre • Painting different areas of the university and Newham College of Further Education crockery, labelling food the residential buildings • Administration welcoming and directing guests, SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Using the leaf blower to gather leaves and SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER answering telephone, booking meetings, dealing Tower Hamlets collect them Workplace Supported Employment Team, London with simple requests/enquiries • Sorting the incoming post Borough of Newham • Concierge greeting and checking in visitors, PLACEMENTS PLANNED 12 • Delivering the post to different departments directing visitors or deliveries to relevant car around the university SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY parks, patrolling the building, monitoring CCTV in DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Setting up the classrooms with the porters London Borough of Newham the control room, customer service • Planting seeds in the flowerbeds using the • Records/Data collecting old records from Queen Mary is one of the UK’s leading global correct procedures PLACEMENTS PLANNED 61 places (only for archives, locating reference numbers and details universities, highly rated for our teaching, research residents of Newham), spread over 4 sites of records, data entry and innovation. Based at our Bethnal Green site • IT Support printing and typing, emailing interns will gain experience across the site. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA colleagues, booking surgeries for equipment This programme is available to all young people service/management, data entry, customer service We are holding an Open Evening for potential aged 18 – 30 years old resident in Newham with • Reception managing meeting rooms bookings, interns who are interested in joining the health and social care needs (learning disabilities, customer service, reporting any faulty items, programme in 2020. autism, physical and sensory impairments, mental Health and Safety risks, checking meeting rooms health and other long-term health conditions) who and restocking stationery items require support to gain and or sustain employment. • Others include grounds maintenance and gardening, porter, nursery, post room and post NSIP offers work experience to young people and delivery, care assistant, stores management, ward adults at 4 sites across Newham to prepare for, matron roles, messenger, printing and typing, gain and maintain paid or self employment. shop assistant

28 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 29 An Expression of Interest form can be requested from Steps into Work, applicants who meet the required application criteria will then be invited to attend an assessment day and if successful, an interview in August 2020. Candidates will be required to enrol with Barnet & Southgate College and start the 12 month programme in September 2020.

PHOENIX COMMUNITY HOUSING TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship in Lewisham The Supported Internship initiative at Transport for London (TfL) – the ‘Steps into Work’ Programme

ADDRESS Please attend the planned Information Evening ADDRESS Several of the placements will be office-based but Phoenix Community Housing, The Green Man, at , Lewisham Way, London TfL Offices, 14 Pier Walk, North Greenwich, there is an opportunity to experience customer 355 Bromley Road, London SE6 2RP SE4 1UT and/or complete a Supported Learning London SE10 0ES service at a London Underground station (for application form from the College. students 18 years or older). Steps into Work is fully CONTACT CONTACT supported with job coaching provided by Royal Laura Dunn Apply to Laura Dunn at Lewisham College Steps into Work enquiries Mencap Society and Barnet and Southgate College 020 3757 3855 by post to the above address or online to: 020 3054 2718 delivering daily tutorials. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Applicants should be independent travellers or Key vocational skills and work experience FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER should be able to become so. FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE PARTNER opportunities offered by the programme include: Lewisham College Barnet & Southgate College Placements are available in the following areas of • Computer Skills general use of Microsoft Office, SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER the organisation to provide key vocational skills SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PARTNER Excel & PowerPoint and the internet Toucan Employment acquisition and work experience opportunities: Royal Mencap Society • Customer Service meeting and greeting visitors and helping them with enquiries SPONSORING/LEAD LOCAL AUTHORITY • Facilities PLACEMENTS PLANNED 24 • Administration photocopying, attending Lewisham Council meetings, sending and receiving emails • Caretaking DATE September 2020 to July 2021 • Organisational Skills stock taking and managing PLACEMENTS PLANNED 6-8 stock levels of certain resources • Administration TfL’s Steps into Work programme is designed to give • Team Working and Problem Solving DATE September 2020 to July 2021 young people 16 years + with learning disabilities collaborating with others to undertake • Front of House or on the autism spectrum the opportunity to and complete tasks gain practical experience in the workplace, whilst • Communication skills in the professional • Communications learning and developing valuable skills needed for environment any employment. The one year programme offers a • Resident Liaison great opportunity to study for a BTEC Level 1 work skills qualification, including gaining real life work experience in unpaid placements within Transport for London.

30 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 GUIDE TO SUPPORTED INTERNSHIPS 2020 31 The West London Alliance (WLA) is a partnership between the seven West London local authorities of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow. With over 20 years’ experience in partnership working, the WLA is committed to an enduring programme of collaboration and innovation to improve outcomes for the residents and businesses of West London. For further information on the West London Supported Internship Programme please contact: Chris Delger at [email protected] or Amanda Griffiths at [email protected] www.wla.london Follow us on Twitter @WLA_tweets

The West London Alliance is very appreciative of the support which the following organisations are providing to the West London Supported Internship Programme, in addition to the companies and organisations specifically featured in this Guide:

With thanks to West London College for once again hosting the West London Supported Internship Fair, on 26th November 2019 at the Hammersmith & Fulham campus, Barons Court EC9025 PrintOut Design & Production EC9025 PrintOut