COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND LEADERSHIP
City Care has a significant social impact. Providing services to over 1.9 million people and with over 1,000 employees, our business touches many communities and households throughout the country.
Pre-Apprentice Work Skills Programme
City Care's award-winning Pre-apprentice Work Skills Programme continues to be a key social initiative for the company. During the course of a year, trainees participate in a series of rotational placements covering the variety of trades available at City Care.
The programme focuses on the development of life skills and a strong work ethic as well as career pathways within the contracting industry. Trainees learn goal setting, communication and teamwork skills, conflict and stress management and budgeting skills.
City Care has put 171 people through the programme over the last seven years, with around 100 of these people retained in our business. Of these 90, over two-thirds have gone on to pursue trade qualifications.
School Partnerships
As well as being our current and future customers, secondary school students are also our potential employees of the future. Each year, City Care supports National Work Choice Day where we host students from local secondary schools and introduce them to career opportunities within City Care. On these days, students are given the opportunity to participate in a number of practical work-related activities.
City Care continues to build on our partnerships with local secondary schools. These partnerships enable City Care to directly communicate to students and key influencers (teachers and parents), the value and attractiveness of trades as viable career options. City Care now has working partnerships with five schools - Christchurch Boys' High School, Lincoln High School, Papanui High School and Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch and Tauranga Boys' College in the Bay of Plenty.
