Work and Skills
Work & Skills Navigators
Tel: 07890 527 111
Email: workandskills@stockport.gov.uk
Find out more details on their website
The Work and Skills Navigator service in Stockport is a dedicated initiative by Stockport Council to help residents, employers, and frontline services access tailored employment and skills support.
The Work and Skills Navigator acts as a single point of contact to:
- Provide a triage-style service to assess individual needs.
- Offer warm handovers to the most appropriate local services.
- Support people facing barriers such as low income, insecure employment, or health conditions.
Alleviating Barriers
Tel: 07773654634Â (Sam)
Email: sam@stockportlearningworks.co.uk
Support can be offered at Stockport Continuing Education Service (Daw Bank) or at a more convenient location in local community:
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- Tailored one-to-one support
- A listening ear
- Support to plan your personalised journey to success based on your own needs and barriers.
- Job support – CV help, interview techniques and preparations, job searching and applications.
- Help finding the correct provision to upskill
- Wellbeing support and information
- Continued support even after you have reached your goal
- Community events and drop in sessions available
Sue Ryder Retail Volunteering
141 Heaton Moor Rd, Heaton Moor, Stockport SK4 4HY
Tel: 0161 442 4638
Find out more details on their website
At Sue Ryder Heaton Moor, we provide a welcoming, supportive environment for ESOL learners to practice their English skills in a real-world retail setting while gaining valuable work experience through volunteering opportunities.
Our charity shop is located in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Greater Manchester.
While we don’t deliver formal ESOL programs, we offer practical English conversation practice in a retail environment suitable for all English levels, with additional support for beginners through pairing with fluent English speakers.
Volunteers can receive references for future employment, certificates recognizing their volunteer service and documented retail experience that demonstrates customer service, teamwork, and communication skills.
We provide informal mentoring from experienced staff, opportunities to build confidence in speaking English with customers and colleagues, development of transferable retail and customer service skills, and a supportive community environment that helps with cultural integration and building local connections. We can offer work experience and placements and all people are offered taster sessions. Our shop manager is also from overseas and understands the challenges faced by ESOL learners with English having been a second language for her as well.
National Careers Service
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/
The National Careers service provide free, impartial advice based around careers, employment, education and training. National Careers Service will give everyone access to the best information, advice and resources that will help them make more effective choices about skills, careers, work and life.
Read Easy
8 Beechfield Road, Cheadle Hulme SK8 7DS
Tel: 07957 516443
Email: stockportleader@readeasy.org.uk
Read Easy Stockport – ReadEasy
Read Easy UK is a national charity which provides free, confidential one-to-one reading coaching for adults through locally-run volunteer groups.
We know that about 11,300 adults in Stockport can’t read or struggle with everyday reading such as food or safety labels, a letter from the hospital or a bus timetable.
Read Easy Stockport offer a programme of free, one-to-one, volunteer-led adult reading sessions. If you require help with your reading in English, you will meet with a trained volunteer for one hour a week in branches of Stockport Library or in community venues. The sessions can help improve your reading skills and also your wellbeing.
If you are a support worker or an agency, you can refer your clients to Read Easy. One of the residents supported through the programme said: “Now I can read 100% of emails, texts and letters sent to me. I can read signs and information when I am shopping”.
