Laura Lands Two Jobs in Leicester

Leicester mum, Laura, came to GRoW looking for support to find a job after a 4-year gap. With a new found confidence and motivation Laura found two part-time jobs and is feeling positive about the future.

Laura said “I hadn’t worked since having my son 4 years ago. I had been looking for jobs but was struggling with the job search as I couldn’t find many part-time vacancies that would be suitable for me.  As a single mum and with my family back home in Lithuania I was finding the whole process of finding a job and managing everything on my own quite stressful at the time. I spoke to a Family Support Worker at Highfield Children’s Centre and she recommended I get in touch with the GRoW Programme, explaining that GRoW are specialists in helping mums on their journey to work. It sounded just what I needed.

The GRoW sessions at Highfield Children’s Centre were so good. Liz and Mercedes who ran the sessions made everything so easy to understand and they were so encouraging and uplifting. There were lots of other women on the programme, all going through the same experiences which made you feel you were all in it together. The programme made me realise all of the transferable skills we’d developed since becoming mums and helped us see our potential beyond parenting. It was all so positive and motivating and it really helped to rebuild my confidence.

The GRoW Programme, combined with the great support from Business to Business (B2B), who helped me with my job search and interview skills, led to my success in securing two part-time admin jobs. They are both in-person roles but the timings allow me to take my son to school and pick him up without needing childcare. I have already started one of the jobs and will soon be starting the other one and am really looking forward to it. 

I feel what the GRoW Programme offers is different from any other programme. To have a programme like this especially for mothers is so good. I’ve been to job centres and recruitment agencies, but the GRoW Programme understand that when you have children, especially if you are a single parent, that parenting takes up a lot of our time and that our children are our top priority. It’s really nice to feel included and understood and that is the difference it makes.