Jethro Picton Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, Gb

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

🌊 Founder Director at The Peaceful Paddle Ltd 🚣‍♂️Passionate about promoting mental health and wellbeing through paddlesports and holistic wellness. 🌿 Thrilled to lead a dedicated team in providing transformative experiences in nature, embracing the power of cold water therapy, nutrition, and exercise for a healthier mind and body. 💪 Join us on this journey towards wellness and adventure!

Uk

Creating new innovative community led Social Enterprises and Supportive Businesses that generate employment opportunities for people with additional needs. Pushing employers boundaries to support them to become fully inclusive. Organisational Development through embedding inclusive recruitment and retention within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategies with a focus on disability.Championing entrepreneurship as a viable pathway to employment for all whilst developing… Show more Creating new innovative community led Social Enterprises and Supportive Businesses that generate employment opportunities for people with additional needs. Pushing employers boundaries to support them to become fully inclusive. Organisational Development through embedding inclusive recruitment and retention within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategies with a focus on disability.Championing entrepreneurship as a viable pathway to employment for all whilst developing opportunities to assist and encourage this. Writing business cases that identify inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and have have robust measurements of the short, medium and long term impact.Evaluating Supported Employment contracts and identifying opportunities through gap analysis. Show less

Secondment To drive the development and delivery of social care related transformation programmes that will positively impact residents and achieve internal service improvements and efficiencies

London, United Kingdom

Engaging stakeholders and chairing consultations on proposed changes to post 16 education, training and employment provision, in response to the 2014 Special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms.Producing a comprehensive review of post 16 employment pathways, for students with SEND to inform an evidence based borough wide strategy for improving outcomes for this cohort.Providing strategic support to schools and other post 16 providers to develop working models for… Show more Engaging stakeholders and chairing consultations on proposed changes to post 16 education, training and employment provision, in response to the 2014 Special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms.Producing a comprehensive review of post 16 employment pathways, for students with SEND to inform an evidence based borough wide strategy for improving outcomes for this cohort.Providing strategic support to schools and other post 16 providers to develop working models for recruiting and working with employers through internships, traineeships and or apprenticeships.Managing contracts to ensure the effective delivery of newly commissioned employment projects, including developing and implementing tools for monitoring and evaluation. Show less

Bringing councils and employers together to boost the career prospects of care leavers and children in care.Working with Local Authorities across the South East to develop strategies to improve employment outcomes for care leavers.

London, United Kingdom

Developed and delivered new employment, training and education projects for residents.Provided one-to-one advice and guidance on a wide range of subjects including; employment, training, education, business start-up, grants, debt/financial advice, welfare benefits, housing, childcare/career issues, health and disability, language/immigration, personal safety and anti- social behaviour.Developed and managed partnerships with a wide variety of local service providers and voluntary… Show more Developed and delivered new employment, training and education projects for residents.Provided one-to-one advice and guidance on a wide range of subjects including; employment, training, education, business start-up, grants, debt/financial advice, welfare benefits, housing, childcare/career issues, health and disability, language/immigration, personal safety and anti- social behaviour.Developed and managed partnerships with a wide variety of local service providers and voluntary organisations and recruited volunteers for internal and external voluntary positions.Planned, organised and delivered various events including; employability, engagement and careers events.Identified a need for new projects, wrote project proposals, obtained quotes for training and equipment, worked with varied budgets to set up and maintain effective projects. For example I indentified a need and set up a Life Skills and Pre Employability training project for vulnerable and general needs residents.Engaged residents in the new programme through outreach and events.Worked to targets, reported outcomes using various database systems and wrote case studies.Supervised four staff that were on a government funded employment scheme (Future Jobs Fund), supported these staff with their career development through regular one to one meetings. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Managed a caseload of over one hundred clients including, lone parents, ex-offenders, refugees, people with drug and alcohol addiction, and the long term unemployed.Empowered clients to get themselves into sustainable employment.Wrote CV’s, cover and speculative letters, supported clients to complete application forms.Provided advice and guidance and benefits calculations during the transition period from unemployment to employment.Challenged unrealistic job goals and… Show more Managed a caseload of over one hundred clients including, lone parents, ex-offenders, refugees, people with drug and alcohol addiction, and the long term unemployed.Empowered clients to get themselves into sustainable employment.Wrote CV’s, cover and speculative letters, supported clients to complete application forms.Provided advice and guidance and benefits calculations during the transition period from unemployment to employment.Challenged unrealistic job goals and positively influenced behaviour.Delivered pre employment workshops including; IT, interview skills and confidence building.Engaged clients and signposted to other specialist organisations.Produced detailed action plans. Successfully met high targets and deadlines. Show less