GEMS NI

Partnership -  Promoting, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with all relevant statutory, voluntary, community organisations and employers

Promoting Social Inclusion in Employment – impacting on the legacy of multi-generational employment experienced by local people

Equality - helping to impact upon the factors such as marginalisation and low self-esteem through enhancing the employability of local people

Wider Impact of Unemployment – helping to reduce the social problems which are factors of unemployment

Client-Centred Approach – maximising the potential for each individual client to improve their employability and gain and maintain employment at the client’s pace using a holistic approach

Demand-Led Approach – embracing labour market policy which supports the demand led model

Transparency and Openness – ensuring an individual, high quality person-centred service is delivered

Respect for Persons – Valuing each client as a human being and treating them with dignity and respect and working with them in a relationship of trust

Challenging people to reach their potential – Creating the conditions to address a client’s barriers through open and honest discussion and contracting for change

Creating appropriate linkage between client and employer – Making the “business case” for unemployed people and achieving “best fit” for both client and employer

Value for Money – ensuring the service is targeted at its identified beneficiaries, and its resources are used in the most efficient, effective and economic way to meet its objectives within a quality-assured service-delivery framework