Routes to Housing: Work Aware
The Routes to Housing project, lead by SFHA, looks to inspire young individuals to pursue careers in the housing sector and view housing as a career destination of choice.
Successfully attracting and retaining young talented people into the housing sector will always be a priority for SFHA.
The Routes to Housing project, lead by SFHA, looks to inspire young individuals to pursue careers in the housing sector and view housing as a career destination of choice. The project will promote the importance of housing as a profession, spread awareness of the various opportunities available and showcase the benefits of working within the sector.
We have had some feedback from our members that they really welcome the idea of engaging with more young people but they lack interaction with them and with schools. And so one of the objectives of the Routes to Housing Project is to increase interaction and awareness between SFHA members and young people. SFHA have been working with Developing the Young Workforce to see where they can offer any opportunities that would support this objective and we are pleased to introduce the Work Aware initiative.
Work Aware is a joint initiative with Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow, FARE and Glasgow City Council and funded by Inspiring Scotland which seeks to inspire and inform school pupils who may be at risk of disengaging from school or who have no idea what type of career they wish to pursue after secondary school by using Glasgow as a classroom to really bring their curriculum and learning to life through multiple practical on-site visits with employers and specific ‘meta-skill’ employability workshops.
Through these interventions, young people will travel to organisations and areas of the city that they might otherwise not usually be aware of or have contact with and have keyworker support to help them identify the skills required to progress into a meaningful post-school destination which best suits their interests with a huge variety of employers. This programme is ideal for those organisations who seek to engage young people to inform them of the huge variety of roles and opportunities available within their sector, how to access them and how to progress within them so as to identify talent, fill skills gaps and to really provide meaningful and sustainable progression routes for our young workforce.
Please note that this opportunity note that this is a specifically Glasgow City Council opportunity at present although there are big ambitions to extend across Scotland. For more information on the initiative please click here
If this sounds like an opportunity you would like to get involved in you can contact Mollie Stephen on mstephen@sfha.co.uk and she can put you in touch with the relevant contact at Developing the Young Workforce