Developing My Skills & Finding A Job
Current opportunities available with Groundwork
Routes to Low Carbon Jobs
We will offer support to over 416 unemployed individuals (18+ years of age) in West Yorkshire to gain access to our 6 month employment program. This will provide work experience, opportunities and training in the Energy Efficiency sector.
Selby Garden Enterprise
We offer work experience for adults with physical, mental health and learning needs. With supported training where needed.
We also offer volunteering opportunities for anyone with an interest in gardening.
Any surplus goes back to the community through the charitable work of Groundwork.
Pathways to Progress
Your path to a better future.
Whether you’d like guidance to develop your skills, access financial support, build a healthy lifestyle or explore career options, our employment advisors adapt our appointments to suit your needs.
Different ways of learning
Delivered with financial support from Uni Connect, our successful alternative curriculum offer provides school pupils with work experience and skills development, over a period of 6 weeks, leading to a Level NOCN 1 Horticultural qualification. Schools which have already used our provision report positive outcomes in terms of attendance, behaviour, attainment and interpersonal relationships.
Supported Internships
We are delivering a Supported Internship programme in North Yorkshire for young people who have an Education Health Care Plan, enabling them to have in depth work experience as well as gaining a range of qualifications including Maths, English and employability.
Helpful resources
Work experience is a great way to learn more about the world of work and gain valuable skills and experience that will look great on your CV. But where do you start? We’ve shared some tips on how to find a work experience placement in this post.
If you’re aged 16 to 30 and want to gain experience, skills, training and the confidence to help you into work, The Prince’s Trust have several resources which can help.
Understanding yourself can help you work out what careers you may enjoy working in. The discover your skills and careers tool from the National Careers Service is a short quiz which may be able to help you pick your career.
Our stories
To meet the UK’s environmental commitments, thousands of new green jobs need to be created across multiple sectors, from renewable energy generation to nature conservation.
Read about Green Start, a learning and employability programme run by Groundwork which aims to help offenders thrive in the evolving green skills and construction job market.
Low Carbon Careers supports unemployed 18–25-year-olds into careers in the green economy. Read about our success so far in this post.