Personal Development Worker - Employability
The Personal Development Worker (PDW) works with young people in East Lothian to increase their employability skills. In particular the PDW can provide:
- Assistance with exploring and considering all the options available
- Action planning and goal setting with continuous assessment
- Help with making decisions about the future, taking into account all the individual’s personal and structural barriers
- Support for self-travel
- Opportunities to learn employability skills in a variety of settings
- Help to build up a portfolio of evidence
- Collaboration with and connections to other useful agencies
- Help with making the most of opportunities outwith the local area
- Support through the transition from unemployment or low skilled, poorly paid employment into a better destination
- Preparation of a CV
- Support and learning how to deal with application forms and covering letters
- Help with managing interviews
Click here to view a pdf of the full Personal Development Worker service leaflet
If you have a young person you would like to refer to this service please click here to download a pdf of our referral form which can be posted or faxed to Bridges Project F.A.O. Fiona Langskaill.
