Labor Opus Group specializes in solutions in the field of flexible work and HR services and placement People with Criminal Backgrounds
Labor Opus Group provide opportunities for unemployed people with a criminal record residing on Merseyside.
The projects address problems of lack of engagement within education, training and employment.
The people we help face many barriers which include long term unemployment, exclusions due to criminal conviction(s), poor housing/homelessness, debt, drug/alcohol addictions or they may be in recovery, poor education and poor work history.
Our work entails in-depth sessions in many areas which covers risk assessment and drawing up an action plan to highlight general ability and training needs.
We identify strengths, weakness and transferable core skills.
We provide assistance with CV writing and completing application forms for jobs or courses.
Our programme ensures our participant's understanding of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, Criminal Records Bureau and disclosure of convictions to an employer.
Our follow up work includes ongoing specialist supportive job search and signposting to partner agencies providing other rehabilitative services.
We provide advocacy to Education Training an Employment (ETE) opportunities; and we give unbiased specialist offender ETE advice and guidance.
Our delivery staff utilise the ‘The Rickter Scale' assessment, which is a self-evaluation tool for us to monitor our clients' progression and soft outcomes.
These interventions ensure that our project participants gain improved ETE outcomes, increased self-confidence and self-reliance.
Labor Opus Group services delivers professional support for the achievement of our participants individual action plan priorities.
Labor Opus Group provides an information, advice and guidance service on a one-on-one to one basis with unemployed offenders, supporting them in achieving their goals.
Labor Opus Group with their local (St Helens, Merseyside) Integrated Offender Manager (IOM) team, being a voluntary sector partner providing advice and guidance to non-statutory prolific & priority offenders.
We have been delivering this provision since May 2012, St Helens Council's Community Safety currently fund this provision until March 2014.
This client group have many barriers, the multi-agency approach hopefully supporting them in addressing those barriers and breaking the cycle of offending.
Since 1 December 2013, new server online.
New web address: www.labor-opus.org  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Labor-Opus-Group-LLC/177339725729092
Nommination new directors for January 2014.
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