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FROM RESETTLEMENT TO EMPLOYMENT

ABILITY FROM DISABILITY - RBLI EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS

RBL Industries Employment Solutions help and support people who want to return to work but are challenged by a health condition or disability. Skilled advisers help customers move into employment through on-the-job support and advice and help them settle in. Their services are funded directly by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), so no costs are passed on to the job finder or the employer.

Steve Hammond (pictured), a disabled Army veteran from the Welsh Guards, is one of the thousands of people RBLI Employment Solutions has helped back into employment. 

Steve joined the WORKSTEP programme.  Through the support of the programme he found employment as a member of the RBLI Estates team, followed by a move to the Royal British Legion Village, having decided to settle in Kent.

Throughout Steve’s employment at RBLI he has always maintained a positive ethos about learning new skills and taking on new responsibilities, fully supported by RBLI Employment Solutions. 

He has received advice and guidance regarding his finances, additional training and personal development objectives. It doesn’t stop there; in addition he has been fully supported in achieving further education, taking time out of work to study for City and Guilds Motor Vehicle Servicing and Repair qualifications.

As Steve recalls, “I was in the right place at the right time. If it were not for RBLI I would be down and out! I like to give back, you know, doing as much as I can to repay them, for example, by representing the Legion at the Albert Hall on Remembrance Day.”

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MOD RESETTLEMENT PROCESSES

All Service personnel leaving the Armed Forces have access to some assistance in making their transition from military to civilian life.  The level of resettlement support provided to Service leavers is dependent upon their length of service and the circumstances of their discharge. 

Those who have completed the minimum four years service may access the Employment Support Programme (ESP), which comprises an interview with a Career Consultant or one-day workshop, and thereafter a job finding service with access to an Employment Consultant for up to two years post-discharge. 

Service leavers who have completed a minimum of six years (five years if enlisted prior to 1 Sep 02), and all personnel who are medically discharged are entitled to the CTP Full Resettlement Programme.  The latter enhances the ESP through providing access to vocational training, coaching in job interview technique, CV writing, and dedicated career consultancy support aimed at improving the Service Leavers’s employment opportunities. 

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FACT !

Of those 13,500 Service Leavers who access the CTP programmes each year, 70% secure employment within one month of leaving the armed forces rising to 94% within six months of discharge.

For more information on CTP visit www.ctp.org.uk