Employment Programme
The Walking With The Wounded Employment
Programme helps secure positive employment outcomes for unemployed veterans.
Our Employment Advisors are embedded in veteran supported accommodation residences or with NHS regional veteran mental health teams. Helping unemployed veterans to find employment and rebuild their lives. Advisors work with people to build confidence, organise work placements, source funding for any required training and ultimately assist in gaining sustainable employment.
Some Advisors are located in homeless residences across the UK in Bristol, Glasgow and Dundee, Edinburgh, Catterick, Aldershot, Manchester and London.
In the West Midlands, the North
West and the East of England; our Advisors are also located within the Veterans Mental Health
Network Transition, Intervention and Liaison Services (TILS). Here we
offer Individual Placement and Support
(IPS) to assist armed forces veterans with mental health needs back
into employment. We offer bespoke support in finding the right job for
each person and support in the job for as long as is needed to both the veteran
and the employer.
Over
600 individuals received employment support through Home Straight in 2017;
which brings the total supported to over 1000 since the programme began in
2014. During the year, 165 ex-servicemen and women were supported into paid
employment and over 100 more were supported to another positive outcome, such
as a work placement, volunteering placement or apprenticeship.
"Walking
With The wounded has helped and supported me in getting back into work. It is
great to see a charity that is out there to help us." - Duncan
"WWTW are
doing a terrific job in helping veterans back in to employment. Having a job I
enjoy and look forward to going to certainly helped me get my life back in
order." -
Karl
Step Into Employment
Working in
partnership, Walking With The Wounded has developed employment pathways
to support ex-servicemen and women into new careers.