Employability Skills with us

Positive attitude

Developing the ability to achieve emotional balance, lower stress and improve wellbeing. Ability to remain optimistic about situations, interactions and self.

Personal Safety

Recognising risks and identifying how to manage them safely and how to get help

Travel Training

Deliver practical support to students to travel by public transport, on foot or by bike. It aims to help young people travel independently and without fear so they can get to college or work and for social and leisure activities.

Communication

Developing, where applicable, the 5 key areas of:

Written communication: Convey ideas and information through the use of written language.
Oral Communication: Convey ideas and information through the use of spoken language.
Non –verbal, AAC and Visual Communication
Active Listening
Contextual communication

Team Work

Developing teamwork successfully through modelling and experiential opportunities, our students learn and practice each and every one of these important skills.

Successful teamwork builds many social skills including:

1. Patience.
2. Empathy.
3. Communication Skills.
4. Respect.
5. Compromise.
6. Tolerance.
7. Problem Solving.

Self Management

Develop student’s ability to regulate their behaviours, thoughts, and emotions in a productive way. Example of how students do this; use a to-do-list to plan and organise daily responsibilities. The list allows prioritising of tasks that are more important and helps in setting clear deadlines.

Organisation and learning skills

Becoming an independent young adult engaging in learning independently in whatever method is appropriate to the individual.

Willingness to Learn

Developing this key behaviour helps our young people get on in life, whether personally or professionally. Simply put, it’s being open to – or seeking out – new experiences, skills and information that improve abilities and enjoyment.

Expectations

Recognising and understanding there are different expectations across different work placements.

Thinking Skills

Thinking Skills are cognitive processes that are used to solve problems, make different decisions, ask questions, make plans, organise and create information. We support the development of thinking skills through TEACHH methodology, the use of Talking Mats, tutorials, access to SaLT and OT therapists on site and a Total Communication approach.

Resilience

Build on student’s ability to cope with challenge and crisis and keep going. All students have a bespoke Resilience Profile that supports them to reduce vulnerabilities and develop self-management strategies.

Employability

Building the essential skills, personal qualities and values that enable young adults to thrive in any workplace. Through a range of experiential work experience opportunities students adapt their ‘enterprise skills’, ‘communication skills’ and ‘workplace skills’.