Other services

Workstep

		New Career
		Former soldier and warehouse supervisor, Billy, re-trained through the Dundee and Angus Individual Initiative Fund to be a bus driver when his company closed down. He has been with Stagecoach for four years and is now training to be a driving instructor.

Workstep aims to provide support in jobs for disabled people who have more complex barriers to finding and keeping work. Helm Training is one of the local organisations that operates the Workstep programme on behalf of Jobcentreplus, providing the liaison and support that is often needed for the participants to work effectively, and to develop and promote independence in their job. Currently Helm supports 15 disabled people.

Dundee and Angus Individual Initiative Fund

This successful programme, funded by Scottish Enterprise Tayside is designed to help unemployed people secure a job offer through training, or enterprising people build new businesses, with the help of re-training. Helm Training facilitates the programme by offering free advice and support to participants who may need for example manual trade qualifications, an HGV licence, or for those who have a business plan but need to develop their skills by completing a specialised course to get it off the ground, like pilates or beauty therapy. The scheme is open to those over 25 years and who fit the Training for Work criteria.