Are good people hard to find? Well, this may no longer be true for Capital Enterprise member for we are happy to announce that the Future Job bid, which we helped our member Newham College of Further Education to develop and write, has been approved by DWP.
From April 2010, Newham College is able to offer a number Future Job recruits to members who are social enterprises or charities (and to other members such as Higher Education Institutions (HEI) who want the Future Job recruit to work in a project team that aims to achieve some form of community benefit).
Newham College/Capital Enterprise Future Job Scheme
To recap for those who are unfamiliar with the scheme, a Future Job recruit is an 18-24 year old young person who has been previously unemployed and claiming JSA for over 6 months. The Newham College/ Capital Enterprise Future Job Scheme will pay our members £5800 to employ a Future Job Recruit for 26 weeks. In return, the employer will pay the recruit a minimum wage of £5.80 per hour for a full 35-hour week. You could obviously pay them more (and I know many of you plan too) but the Future Job salary subsidy will only cover the salary and NIC costs up to £5800.
Newham College will support the recruit whilst they are in your employment and manage and administer the registration, payment and recruitment process. This is yet to be finalised but we expect that the jobs will be advertised through your local Job Centre Plus Office and that the “better the job” and the “better the pay” the greater number of suitable candidates will apply.
We think this is a great opportunity for members to recruit for Office Junior/Project Assistant posts. Eight Capital Enterprise members have already confirmed an interest in obtaining a Future Job Recruit but if you want to find out more please e-mail Jazz Singh at jaspal.singh@newham.ac.uk
Additional Intern Programmes
Capital Enterprise HEI members are also able to offer SME’s and Social Enterprises free or heavily subsidised graduate interns for between 4-12 weeks to work on a suitable and interesting projects. Unfortunately, to add to the confusion each scheme varies from university to university, so I have prepared a table below that will give you an outline of what is available.
I am afraid you or your SME clients will have to move quickly for some of the programmes are very popular and these paid interns will be snapped up fast.
|
HE Institution (Capital Enterprise members in bold) |
Length of Internship |
Cost to Employer (not including VAT) |
Payment to Graduate Intern |
Contact |
|
University College London |
8 weeks |
£250 one off fee |
Graduate(£205pw for 35hrs) |
Christopher Crimp |
|
Ravensbourne College(Broadcast, Web Design, Film and Technology, Product Design and Fashion Design) |
6 weeks (longer if part time) |
On application (No fee charged in some cases) |
Intern paid (£203pwfor 35hrs) by University |
Laura Bell |
|
Kingston University |
Employer hires: 8 weeks; Must pay £7.50 – £8.50ph; Invoices Uni for £1200; University hires: Pays Graduate £7-50ph for 35 hour week; Employer pays £1200 Could be 4 weeks one way and 4 weeks the other. Also could be part time |
£900-1200 cost to business (less if intern part time) |
Intern paid (min £262pw for 35hrs) by either by employer or University. |
Janice ChalmersGraduate2Business |
|
Brunel University |
Up to 12 weeks; employed by business throughout |
Business to receive £100 pw subsidy |
Intern paid (£203pw for 35hrs) by employer |
Charlie Leake |
|
University of the Arts |
8 weeks or 12 weeks; employed by business throughout |
Business to receive £100 pw subsidy |
Intern paid(£203pw for 35hrs)By employer |
Mavi Tikotkar |
|
University of East London with London Metropolitan University, London Southbank University and Queen Mary University Rose Bruford College Trinity Laban Conservatoire University of Greenwich |
Minimum of 4 weeks; employed by business throughout; application forms can be found at: www.uel.ac.uk/keinterns/employers.htm. |
FREE; Business to be paid 2 payments of £500 to cover cost of employing intern for 4 weeks. |
Intern paid minimum wage by University |
University of East London Mark Faulkner London Southbank University |
|
University of Westminster |
Up to 8 weeks; employed by business throughout |
Business to receive £100 pw subsidy |
Intern paid (£203pw for 35hrs) by employer |
Simona Nicola |
|
Thames Valley University |
6 weeks with business + 2 weeks training at HEI |
£500 one-off fee |
Intern paid (£203pw for 35 hours) by University |
Jerry Allen |
|
London School of Economics |
Minimum 4 months; maximum 11 months; Employed by business throughout |
£203pw for 35 hours paid to intern |
Intern must be paid NMW by employer for full length of internship |
Alex Elkins |
|
RVC (UCL) |
BRIO – 8 week internship scheme exclusively for Bio-Science Graduates and Companies |
£400 one-off fee |
Intern paid (£205 per week) by University |
Zoie Raymond |
