Specialist employment services provider Remploy has strengthened its commitment to its own staff by promoting long-serving Julie Lawton to manager of its recently launched Oldham branch.
Julie has just been handed the reins after impressing her bosses in a vast array of roles during her 10 years with the organisation.
She will be responsible for a team of five specialist employment advisors and a branch coordinator and she feels Remploy's positive approach to internal promotions is one to be admired.
"Alongside helping those who experience complex barriers to employment, Remploy is also dedicated to developing the skills of its own staff," she says.
"It's really important that colleagues know they will always be considered for promotion. It's also reassuring to know that there is a career path ahead for dedicated people who have learnt new skills."
Julie has taken over the role vacated by Marie Murray-Henderson, who herself has been promoted and will now oversee the branches in the North West region in her role as cluster manager.
The Oldham branch has only been open six weeks but is already making a sizeable impact on the local community, with nine people with disabilities and health conditions placed into employment in the past month alone.
Services provided include access to employability skills and vocational training, assistance with job-searching, help with letter writing and completing application forms, and arranging job tasters and interviews.
Julie adds: "Remploy's Oldham branch means our candidates have access to professional and highly visible facilities. It gives us the opportunity to show what we can do for local people and already it's making a big difference in the town."
Remploy is the UK's leading provider of specialist employment services to people and last year found 6,500 jobs with mainstream employers for people with disabilities and health conditions.
The new Oldham branch is the latest in a network of facilities opening throughout the country which are central to Remploy's drive to find more than 20,000 jobs in mainstream employment for disabled people by 2012.
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