Heartbeat: 100 not out for World of Work programme

December 22, 2020

Teams around the Trust have been celebrating after the World of Work programme hit its latest impressive milestone.

World of Work (WoW), is a unique work experience placement programme designed and funded to assist job seekers and unemployed people over the age of 25+ that live within three to five miles of City Hospital. Recently it completed its most recent group of cohorts and in doing so passed the 100 mark in terms of those it has been able to help.

The WoW programme aims to help individuals get ready for work, helping to focus aims, and arrange placements around the Trust (qualifications depending) in clinical and non-clinical departments. WoW apprentices help in vital service areas as apprentices, administrators, clerks and receptionists, hotel services, estate operatives, porters, patient transport drivers, health care assistants, trainee nurses and more.

“We are delighted to have reached this incredibly important milestone for us,” Liza Gill, World of Work Project Lead & Volunteer Service Manager told Heartbeat. “Despite the pandemic and despite only being in operation for a relatively short time, WoW has already been able to help so many people, several whom have been able to find roles in or connected to our organisation.

“Some have found a calling they want to peruse, others have discovered (or rediscovered) a sense of satisfaction in working, and others have found the guidance they needed. They have benefited and, the Trust has benefited too from their efforts. Thank you to all the teams that have assisted with placements. We are looking forward to seeing where we go next in 2021 and possibly beyond.”