Employment advice and support: Help to Work

If you have been made redundant, or are at risk of being made redundant, you may be feeling worried about the future. Adur & Worthing Councils have joined forces with several partner organisations to provide good information, advice and guidance in relation to employment issues.

Below you will find a range of useful information and links to key services and support:

• Redundancy: your rights
• How to get financial help and claim benefits (and childcare)
• How to find job vacancies
• How to write a CV, prepare for job interviews or access careers advice
• How to find training courses or apprenticeships
• How to start your own business
• Help if you are self-employed
• How to look after your mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Support for those with a disability or learning difficulty

Don't know where to start?

• Talk to an employment advisor to find out what help is available ...

Redundancy: your rights

Have you been made redundant? You may be entitled to:

• Redundancy pay
• The option to move into a different job
• Time off to find a new job

Know your redundancy rights and entitlements - on the GOV.UK website.

If you believe your employer hasn't applied the correct process, contact ACAS or Citizens Advice.

Video: Money Helper - Redundancy and losing your job

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How to get financial help and claim benefits

You may be able to claim benefits if you have:

• Lost your job
• Working reduced hours
• Need to self-isolate
• Check your entitlement - on the Entitled To website

You can find helpful advice about paying your mortgage, credit cards and household bills on the:

• Money Saving Expert website

If you need help with food, here's how to find your nearest foodbank.

Childcare

To find out how to get help with childcare, see:

• Tax-Free Childcare - on the GOV.UK website
• Help to pay for your childcare - How to apply for 30 hours free childcare - on the childcare choices GOV.UK website

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How to find job vacancies

To help you find a job read these tips and advice.

Employers advertise their jobs in a variety of places. These include:

Dedicated local jobs board websites:

• Love Local Jobs
• West Sussex County Council Jobs

National job websites:

• Find a Job - on the GOV.UK website
• Indeed
• Reed
• Agency Central website
• Find and apply for an apprenticeship - on the GOV.UK website

Social media - including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter:

• Jobs Centre Plus (JCP) - Sussex Jobs - on Twitter

Fine tune your working life. Find out how flexible working options can fit around you and learn new skills to suit your changing needs:

• Midlife MOT: Your work - on the GOV.UK website

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How to write a CV, prepare for job interviews or access careers advice

Information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work is available, see:

• Advice to improve your CV and job applications, and to help you do well in interviews - on the job help campaign (JobCentre Plus) section of the GOV.UK website
• National Careers Service
• Royal British Legion - Lifeworks (back to work support)
• Royal British Legion - Social enterprise (jobs for veterans and those with disabilities)

If you are a housing association tenant, you may also be able to access supported careers and employment advice:

• Clarion Housing Group, Clarion Futures - Jobs and Training Scheme
• Optivo Housing Group - Virtual Employment Support

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How to find training courses or apprenticeships

Our local colleges and universities have a range of training courses and apprenticeship opportunities (apprenticeships are open to ALL ages). These are a great place to start, with many courses free or at reduced cost. Some courses will be paid for by an employer:

• Chichester College
• Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (MET)
• University of Brighton
• University of Chichester
• Skills Toolkit - on the GOV.UK website

You can find out how Apprenticeships work on the Apprenticeships in Sussex website.

You can review all apprenticeship opportunities in our area on the GOV.UK website.

For a full list of local training organisations that provide local apprenticeship opportunities see the Apprenticeships in Sussex website.

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How to start your own business

If you are considering starting up your own business, the Chichester Business Hot House Programme offers local information and live webinars to get you thinking. You may also be able to access a grant.

• How to start a start-up - on the University of Chichester Business School website

The following websites are also useful starting points:

• Set Up a Business advice - on the GOV.UK website
• Worthing and Adur Chamber of Commerce
• Business Startup Loans

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Help if you are self-employed

Video: Money Helper - Financial support if you're self-employed

See also:

• Support if you're self-employed - on the Money Helper website

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How to look after your mental health and emotional wellbeing

If you are struggling with your mental health as a result of being made redundant, here's a list of organisations that can help you:

• Mental health and wellbeing

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Support for those with a disability or learning difficulty

There is specialist support for those that have a physical disability, are a carer or have a learning difficulty or autism:

• If you have a physical disability or are a carer you can get support from Workability
• Do you or someone you know, have a learning disability or Autism? You can get support from Work Aid - on the Aldingbourne Trust website

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Don't know where to start? Talk to an employment advisor to find out what help is available

If you can't find the information you need on this web page or need further guidance, you can get help from the Citizens Advice Bureau about your employment rights, see:

• Citizens Advice Bureau website

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