WELCOME TO THE FALKIRK WORK ACADEMY
We provide a comprehensive suite of soft and technical skills-based activities designed to get people engaged and ready for work, delivered by our experienced staff in the environment of a professional football club.
Client groups involved to date include disengaged school pupils, unemployed youths, long-term unemployed adults, lone parents, visually impaired/blind adults and students with learning disabilities.
WHAT WE DO
We Inspire people to make life changes
We have been delivering Employability programmes successfully for several years aimed at inspiring people who have experienced a setback to make changes to their own lives, to raise aspirations and ambitions and open their minds to new possibilities. Our framework is called the Falkirk Work Academy. It can be adapted to suit partner requirements and provides a real client-centred approach with progressions aligned to the National Employability Pipeline.
We Inspire people to make life changes
We have been delivering Employability programmes successfully for several years aimed at inspiring people who have experienced a setback to make changes to their own lives, to raise aspirations and ambitions and open their minds to new possibilities. Our framework is called the Falkirk Work Academy. It can be adapted to suit partner requirements and provides a real client-centred approach with progressions aligned to the National Employability Pipeline.
We provide skills development opportunities
Our unique proposition offers a collaboration of employability and core skill development with practical training room or pitch-based activities, work placements and access to the unique assets of a professional football club. We are uniquely placed to offer participants a motivational and enjoyable experience no matter what their current circumstances are and everything we do is geared towards sustainable outcomes for all of our “signings”.
We provide skills development opportunities
Our unique proposition offers a collaboration of employability and core skill development with practical training room or pitch-based activities, work placements and access to the unique assets of a professional football club. We are uniquely placed to offer participants a motivational and enjoyable experience no matter what their current circumstances are and everything we do is geared towards sustainable outcomes for all of our “signings”.
We work with participants
Our Development through Sport model sees course participants sign a “contract” with us; walk up the tunnel; receive regular football-based life skills drills on the pitch; wear official club kit; walk in the same corridors as club professionals; and attend their course in the modern and inspiring Falkirk Stadium.
We work with participants
Our Development through Sport model sees course participants sign a “contract” with us; walk up the tunnel; receive regular football-based life skills drills on the pitch; wear official club kit; walk in the same corridors as club professionals; and attend their course in the modern and inspiring Falkirk Stadium.
We help participants get a job
We help people understand the importance of a professional looking CV, online presence and personal appearance and how to apply for jobs, prepare for interviews and give themselves the best opportunity to secure sustained employment, whilst building confidence, self-esteem, routine, engagement, health and well-being and skills for employment.
We can also provide quality and relevant work experience with Falkirk Foundation, Falkirk FC, or with a range of local partner organisations.
We help participants get a job
We help people understand the importance of a professional looking CV, online presence and personal appearance and how to apply for jobs, prepare for interviews and give themselves the best opportunity to secure sustained employment, whilst building confidence, self-esteem, routine, engagement, health and well-being and skills for employment.
We can also provide quality and relevant work experience with Falkirk Foundation, Falkirk FC, or with a range of local partner organisations.
We help participants gain qualifications
As an approved SQA delivery and assessment centre, we offer a suite of SCQF qualifications up to and including level 4, encompassing the nationally recognised Falkirk Employability Award.
We help participants gain qualifications
As an approved SQA delivery and assessment centre, we offer a suite of SCQF qualifications up to and including level 4, encompassing the nationally recognised Falkirk Employability Award.
PARTICIPANT ACHIEVEMENTS
Six Stage 3 General Employability Programmes in which 100% of course completers attained a positive destination of employment, education or training
Alternative school participants achieved a 91% attendance and successful completion of 130 qualifications in 14 months
Students with learning disabilities engaged with 3,000 people and completed 200 qualifications in 14 months
100-200 candidates complete qualifications with us each year
700% growth in programme delivery in 4 years (increase from 5 to 35 programmes per annum)
Interested in joining the Employability Programme?
TESTIMONIALS
“Had a great time and learned new skills, made a lot of good friends and my confidence has soared”
– Participant
“The course helped me holistically, not just academically, building my self-confidence back up from a low point after redundancy”
– Participant
“It was good to help with my CV and improve my job-hunting skills. It was also good to meet new people in the same circumstances as myself”
– Participant
“I loved having a routine, it made me feel good. (The Programme) also had a positive impact on my family”
– Participant
“Central to the centre’s delivery of its employability award is the exploitation of its unique setting and resource: the football club. It effectively uses this setting to contextualise and thematically link Core Skills. This approach appears to be successful in engaging its candidates, providing appropriate formative and summative activities for them. The assessors work with candidates on a daily basis for the duration of the award. It was apparent that candidates receive consistently focused support throughout their time there.”
– SQA External Verifier