What is Jobs Growth Wales+?

Jobs Growth Wales+ (JGW+) is a training and development programme for 16–19 year olds that gives them the skills, qualifications, and experience they need to either gain a job or enter further training.

 

There are 3 strands to the programme:

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Jobs Growth Wales+ at ACT

Tell me more about these strands…

 

In the Engagement and Advancement strand, you’d work with us to offer work tasters or placements for our young people to help develop their skills. Learners on these strands receive a training allowance of up to £60 per week depending on their hours, up to £19.50 per week for meal allowance and support with travel costs.

If you do provide a placement opportunity, and those learners work well, you may want to consider providing either a job or even an Apprenticeship opportunity for the learner. We’re also equipped to support with the Apprenticeship qualification.

On the Employment strand, if you decide to employ a young person via the Jobs Growth Wales+ programme, we’ll pay up to 50% of each young person’s employment costs at the National Minimum Wage for the first six months and they’ll continue to get guidance and ongoing training from us, to support their development with you.

 

Short term commitment

If you are not quite ready to offer a placement or job opportunities, you could help inspire and motivate our young people to help them get ready for employment. We find by providing opportunities like this, it can make a massive difference to our young people and help prepare them for the world of work.

You could provide opportunities like:

 

If you are interested in working with ACT…

If you would like to advertise your placement on our website, please email worldofworkteam@acttraining.org.uk.

 

Take a look at our current JGW+ vacancies:

“ACT was a really good experience, I saw progression in terms of my confidence and talking to others as well as my learning and the support was really good. I’m now going to do my Level 2.”
Megan Nedrud, Automotive
“These skills are going to help me when working with large groups of people in university, it will help me with presentations and future work placements. This will enable me to showcase the skills that I picked up and learned during my time at ACT.”
Kerene Kipulu, Customer Service
“I have developed my communication methods and feel more confident in speaking with customers. The employer provided constant help and support with the role. Staff members took the time to go through tasks with me. Everyone has also helped to make me feel valued and part of the team.”
Lois Denatale, Business Administration