Previously unemployed learners gain positions with RMBC

Some of the thirteen successful candidates who have secured positions with the RMBC’s Adult Care Services department: Angela Clarke (Adult Care Day Services Co-ordinator), Lucy Elliott, Jayne Brogan, Samina Hussain, Vicky Richardson and Rachel Law (Adult Care Services - Manager)

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Previously unemployed learners, having successfully achieved their BTEC Level 1 Award in Health and Social Care, have gained positions within Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council’s (RMBC) Adult Care Services department.

The group were chosen after attending informal one-to-one interviews with members of the Adult Care Service and then successfully achieving the health and social care qualification, increasing their employability skills and interview skills, at Hopwood Hall College and attending formal interviews with RMBC managers.

Karen Humphreys, Contracts Manager for the unemployed at Hopwood said: “We’re delighted that the group has been offered positions at RMBC.

"The course provided valuable employability skills such as interview techniques and essential skills needed to work within the Adult Care Services.

"They all worked really hard during the course and very much deserved the opportunity this presents them.

"We wish them the very best of luck in their new roles.”

Adam Lear, 18, from Rochdale applied for and was accepted as a Human Resources Apprentice at Hopwood Hall College. 

His role involves a diverse range of activities as fitting the different needs of each department at the College. Adam says: “I consider myself extremely lucky to have been given the opportunity to have such an interesting workload that keeps me more than active at all times. 

“Alongside the fact that you get a qualification and you earn while you’re doing that, an apprenticeship provides you with a genuine character building exercise. It improves you personally in so many ways that you would never think it could. You get to work with really experienced people which equips you with life skills and helps build your work ethic.”

Adam now hopes to continue his studies with the aim of building a career in human resources in the future.