Project Search

Project SEARCH is a one year course for students in their final year of school. It is a programme that has been developed in Cincinnati, USA and is now successfully replicated in many states. Fosse Way School is the first school in the UK to be offering the course and the first group of students finished in July 2010.

The course is based on students spending a year on site of an employer, learning about a variety of jobs and other employability skills such as completing applications and having interviews. The students spend a small proportion of every day in a classroom at the employer and the rest of the day they are out working in various departments as trainees. During this time they learn the transferable skills needed within the job market. The aim of the course is employment.

The partners working with Fosse Way School are the Royal United Hospital in Bath (employer) and Adult Services /Remploy (job development and job coaching).

Fosse Way School has an equipped classroom on site at the RUH and a teacher and teaching assistant work there full time. They work with job coaches and job development staff who support the students on their internships and in finding employment either at the RUH or elsewhere.

Useful Links:

www.projectsearch.uswww.officefordisability.gov.uk/working/project-search.php