TSP has two main projects aimed at the Intermediate Labour Market

Our Fixers ILM programme began in Liverpool in 1998 and has expanded across Merseyside – St Helens, Wirral, Halton & Sefton. The programme recruits and trains long-term unemployed people, providing up to 12 months paid full-time work experience, which includes one day’s training per week and fours days real work experience with a host organisation. All training is industry specific and directly relates to the requirements of the roles the Fixers are aiming to continue their career in upon completion of their experience with Fixers. Training is customised to the latest regulatory standards and personalised and paced to individual needs and requirements. Since its inception back in 1998, an average 80% of all participants go onto full time employment upon graduation from the Fixers project.

Nicola Ruffles, the project manager said “The success and popularity of the Fixers project has never waned. If funding allowed, we could fill many more places each year and still maintain the excellent achievement levels. The project has kept true to its original aims of providing a value for money service that provides relevant work experience for those clients that could not access the substance misuse industry on their personal experiences alone. Many of our clients want to put something back into their communities when they have recovered themselves and Fixers provides the bridge from the beginning of their recovery process, through to full reintegration back into the economy”.

Another one of our ILM projects, Sefton Learning Mentors programme began in March 2010 and is the result of a unique collaboration between ourselves, Sefton@Work and Sefton DAATs Move On project. Funded via Sefton Borough Council, the project trains long term unemployed individuals to take up careers as Community Learning
Mentors/Support Workers.