Wise Group - Relational Mentoring Programme with JET.
Welcome to our Wise Group - Relational Mentoring Programme support.
We can help you improve yourself and prepare your path to get into work. This programme includes training, voluntary placements, ESOL and integration sessions.
This project is only for people who are economically inactive.
Contact (Newcastle and North Tyneside):
nasrin@jetnorth.org.uk
farida@jetnorth.org.uk
Contact (Sunderland):
pauline@jetnorth.org.uk
or call us on 0191 273 5761.
We would be very happy to help you.
What is the
Wise Group - Relational Mentoring Programme
The Wise Group Relational Mentoring project is led by the Wise Group, with the following delivery partners: Anxious Minds; Building Futures East; JET (Jobs, Education and Training); Justice Prince CIC; Meadow Well Connected; and Reviving the Heart of the West End.
This project provides relational mentoring to economically inactive residents who are over the age of 16 and live in the Newcastle and North Tyneside areas, to help them move towards and into employment.
Relational Mentoring offers 1:1 wrap-around support and activities to address the varied and complex barriers that prevent many people from securing and sustaining quality employment.
Activities include household budgeting, mental and physical health support and work and social skills, as well as traditional employability support such as cv writing, job searching and interview preparation, to help residents take positive steps towards employment.
Relational Mentoring started on 1st July 2023 and will deliver until March 2025.
This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The Wise Group - Relational Mentoring Programme in
Sunderland
The Wise Group is now delivering its free-to-access, holistic, and evidenced Relational Mentoring support to economically inactive people with multiple barriers to employment in Sunderland City Council area. By working with people across a diverse set of 15 needs, ranging from housing, wellbeing, health and heating, multiple barriers can be tackled at once to give people the foundations to move forward with their lives.
Customers are matched with a locally based and experienced mentor, working compassionately and 1:1 to support them in identifying their specific barriers, developing a bespoke plan with key interventions, and creating a personalised journey with individual goals.
Customer benefit entitlements are not affected by participation in the service.
JET(Jobs, Education and Training) will also be providing specialist ESOL support.
Each journey is unique but examples of support can include:
- Access to counselling and mental health support
- Help to improve physical health and wellbeing
- Advocacy and support with finance, benefits and debt
- Basic and life skills and training, including Maths & English qualifications
- Involvement in fun social inclusion events
- Personal wellbeing, self-esteem and confidence-building activities
- Energy advice and advocacy, including access to crisis funding
- Housing support and guidance
- CV writing, job search, volunteering and work experience
- Specialist ESOL support
- Signposting to other suitable services in the community
Eligibility:
Economically Inactive customers in receipt of any disability/sickness benefits, carers, lone parents in the non work group, people not in receipt of benefits.
Must be a resident in the Sunderland City Council area.
The support is coming from the 'people and skills' priorities of the UK Shared Prosperity (UKSPF) programme funded by the UK Government.
