Sarah Sturmey – Pure Employment LeadCaroline Morgan – Senior Practitioner, Project Search

Who are Pure Innovations?

•A successful values driven not-for-profit Company and Registered Charity established in July 2005 as a TUPE transfer from Stockport Council

•Over 24 years experience of supported employment and modernising day services

•Ground breaking initiatives

•Obtained ‘Outstanding’ Grade 1 by OFSTED for supported employment

•Exceed the aspirations of UK legislation

•National organisation

•Work with the most disadvantaged groups who are furthest from the workplace

•Perceived as cutting edge so growth inevitable but without compromising quality

Pure Employment – Specialist Supported Employment •Stockport Council, Manchester City Council, London Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

•Work Choice Provider in Stockport, Tameside, Salford, Bury and Oldham

•Right to control trailblazer site in Stockport – DWP/DWP+SCB

Pure Transitions – transition services for young people•Travel training contracts with Stockport Council, Trafford Council, Bolton council

•YSEP – Manchester Council, *Firwood School in Bolton - WE

•Project search – Manchester College x2, Trafford tbc (Valuing Employment Now DWP)

Modernised Day Services – Care servicesContracts with Stockport Council and Rochdale Council

Consultants and Trainers to Local Authorities across UKAvailable to provide services to help LA improve and modernise their services.

What do Pure Innovations Do?

Supported employment client group

Pure Innovations have traditionally worked with people who are perceived to be furthest away from the labour market

•Learning disability – across the range including people with severe learning disabilities who have been institutionalised in day services for many years

•Mental Health

•Physical & sensory disabilities

•Young people in or leaving care

•Aspergers

•Autism

•Work Choice – People with any disability or health condition which affects their ability to find or maintain employment

Why are we successful? Employer Engagement

We work in partnership with employers to meet their needs as a business

Employing from an untapped pool of resources i.e. people with disabilities and people from disadvantaged groups makes good business sense; employers just need to know why

We work alongside HR professionals, managers and teams to offer advice on recruitment, policies, procedures to devise creative solutions and simple adjustments to overcome identified barriers.

We work with employers to dispel the myths they may hold and demonstrate to them that people with disabilities can work

We promote reasonable adjustments, good recruitment and selection, good training, positive policies and a willingness to give people a chance.

Our success is based on the genuine belief that people with disabilities and people from disadvantaged groups can work and sustain work with the appropriate support.

Why are we successful? Person centred

•Person centred work development plan

•Job matching

•Better off calculations

•Job analysis, health& safety, risk assessment for

each role

•Training plan

•Job coaching - Training in systematic instruction

•Natural supports in workplace/training for colleagues/managers

•Travel training/Travel training plans

•Reviews and ongoing support/phasing out

• Project SEARCH is an employment focused education programme

• Designed to give students opportunities to develop employability skills in a real work place, surrounded by other working people.

• 3 way Partnership between Employer, Education provider and supported employment provider

• Employer = Range of different jobs, e.g. reception work, Pharmacy, Portering and Dental Lab roles.

• College = tutor responsible for delivering class-based instruction within the hospital.

• Pure Innovations = a job coach responsible for ‘on the job’ support to trainees, employees and managers.

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