From School Gates to Salaries

Women Like Us is an award-winning social enterprise that was developed to support women with children to make the best choices for their working lives, while helping employers find and retain experienced, part-time staff. With a bank of over 300 employers from small businesses to local branches of large organisations like Abbey, ASDA and Royal Mail, Women Like Us help women with children find local work that matches their skills and interests and offers the flexibility they need.

Run entirely by women who have children themselves, Women Like Us understand the issues women face when returning to work after full-time childcare, and ensure that the service continues to best address their needs. The service is promoted through children’s primary schools, and ‘reps’ are recruited at each school to spread the word at the school gates, through coffee mornings, and on school notice boards.

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What's involved?

If you are interested in the service, you will be invited to register, and attend an introductory session where the support available is explained, and you will be allocated a personal coach who will help identify what support you may need and how you can achieve your career aspirations.

Depending on your support needs, your coach will be able to offer help with a programme of employability skills and training, lasting for 4-6 months, run from Women Like Us' Archway offices. This will include drawing up a personalised action plan, and delivering a range of support from CV writing, skills development confidence building, IT training, and job search and interview techniques, to business start-up training. You will be guaranteed a minimum of twelve hours direct support as part of this programme, plus unlimited one-to-one support from the coach by telephone. Once training is completed, Women Like Us will support you to apply for local part-time flexible jobs that reflect your level of skills and experience, and suit your interests and childcare commitments.

Coaches can also refer you on to more specialist advice and training in things like basic skills or English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and will then follow up once this training is completed to see if they can offer you further support with employability skills and job brokerage.

Finally, after Women Like Us place you in a job, they will continue to support you for your first six months of employment. This may include helping you with any initial difficulties with your return to work, and supporting you to ensure that you have the best chance of staying in employment.

Contact details

Contact Toni Sharma
Address Bickerton House, 25 Bickerton Road, N19 5JT
Tel 020 7281 6522

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