1 Overview
Our Careers Team can provide free information, advice, guidance and support if you:
- live in West Sussex
- are aged 16-18, or 16-25 (school leaver) with an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) and not in employment, education or training
- are aged 19-24 and not in employment, education or training not currently working with a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) work coach.
We can also help if you are working fewer than 16 hours a week or studying part time (for example retaking Maths or English GCSE), but not on a full time college course.
We can meet you at a local FindItOut centre, Children and family centre or library. We can also visit you at home, as long as there is an adult present.
We can help you to:
- assess what you want to do next
- recognise your skills, strengths and ambitions
- find out about opportunities, including education, apprenticeship, employment, traineeship, further training and volunteering
- develop a plan to help you achieve your goals, and keep on track with that plan
- create a CV, practice interviews, search for jobs and complete job or benefit applications.
We may be able to speak on your behalf by being an advocate, if appropriate.
2 Contact your local Careers Adviser
For further information, or to make a referral, please get in touch with your area contact:
West Sussex Careers Advice Team
Horsham (Rural)
- Contact name: Helen Mallows
- Phone: 07715 890145
- Email: helen.mallows@westsussex.gov.uk
Horsham (Town)
- Contact name: Lucy Formosa
- Phone: 07784 220164
- Email: lucy.formosa@westsussex.gov.uk
Crawley
Contact 1
- Contact name: Emma Taylor
- Phone: 07715 890154
- Email: emmafaye.taylor@westsussex.gov.uk
Contact 2
- Contact name: Claire Nightingale
- Phone: 07784 220250
- Email: claire.nightingale@westsussex.gov.uk
Littlehampton, Angmering, Arundel, Ferring and Rustington
- Contact name: Roma Gee
- Phone: 07562 906042
- Email: roma.gee@westsussex.gov.uk
Bognor Regis
Contact 1
- Contact name: Helen Sanders
- Phone: 07938 500498
- Email: helen.sanders@westsussex.gov.uk
Contact 2
- Contact name: Melanie Lush
- Phone: 07738 290817
- Email: melanie.lush@westsussex.gov.uk
Mid Sussex
- Contact name: David Wignall
- Phone: 07715 890164
- Email: david.wignall@westsussex.gov.uk
Chichester
Contact 1
- Contact name: Tania Corn
- Phone: 07936 333912
- Email: tania.corn@westsussex.gov.uk
Contact 2
- Contact name: Sally Ellacott
- Phone: 07715 890141
- Email: sally.ellacott@westsussex.gov.uk
Adur, Shoreham and Lancing
- Contact name: Julie White
- Phone: 07738 290818
- Email: julie.white@westsussex.gov.uk
Worthing (BN13, BN14)
- Contact name: Charlotte Jakins
- Phone: 07525 202995
- Email: charlotte.jakins@westsussex.gov.uk
Team leaders
- Contact name: Sue Berry
- Phone: 07715 890107
- Email: sue.berry@westsussex.gov.uk
- Contact name: Dexter Kunaka
- Phone: 07927 570411
- Email: dexter.kunaka@westsussex.gov.uk
3 Updating us
The Careers Team are required to check what all school and college leavers aged 16-25 are now doing for education, employment or training.
We may call, text or write to you to obtain this information, but you can tell us anytime by completing the online form below.
You can also complete the form to update us if you have had a change to your education, employment or training placement since we last heard from you.
Your future - Where are you now? (external link)4 Further information
Other sites that might be useful
- Benefits of co-living
- National Careers Service
- Careers Gateway
- Careers Box - Film clips on a wide range of jobs and industries
- Prospects - Careers information for Post-16 and Post-18
- Starting Out Guide - careers guide for LGBT students, graduates and jobseekers
- iCould - career videos and job information on choices at 14+, 16+, 18+
- Find an apprenticeship - find and apply for an apprenticeship
- Find a traineeship - find and apply for a traineeship
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