A Programme Built for Her.
Precisely.

Before a woman can engage with employment support she needs to feel safe enough to engage at all. This phase covers trauma screening, establishing trust with the practitioners, identifying barriers with clarity, and building the psychological foundation the programme requires.

Evidence basis: Polyvagal theory (Porges) confirms that goal-directed behaviour is neurologically inaccessible when the nervous system is in threat response. TRIUMPH baseline assessment across all seven pillars is completed in this phase.

Outcome: She is safe. She is seen. She is ready to begin.

Her story stops being something that happened to her and starts being the source of her understanding of herself. Identity work, values clarification, and beginning to separate who she is from what she has been through.

Evidence basis: Trauma-informed practice principles (SAMHSA). This phase produces the documented therapeutic dip — a temporary worsening that practitioners are trained to distinguish from clinical deterioration. First distance travelled data is captured here.

Outcome: She knows her strengths. She knows what she is capable of. Independent of her history.

Practical energy management, health navigation alongside employment goals, and building the daily structures that make sustained work possible for someone managing chronic illness or trauma responses.

Evidence basis: Energy envelope theory and chronic illness as systemic barrier. This phase addresses the IPPR finding that women with chronic conditions are 2.3 times more likely to exit the labour market permanently. Equality Act 2010 reasonable adjustments framework is introduced here.

Outcome: She understands her capacity honestly. She has practical systems to protect and expand it.

CV work, employment planning, and skills development, all grounded in everything the previous three phases have built. Not a generic CV. Her CV, reflecting her actual strengths and her honest capacity.

Operational note: Individual Action Plans are co-created in this phase. Employment targets are set collaboratively, not imposed. DiSC personality profiling is applied to match participants with communication strategies for employer engagement.

Outcome: She is genuinely ready. Not pushed. Ready.

Active job searching, interview preparation, and employer engagement with her associate practitioner team alongside her throughout. Volunteering, work experience, and education are also valid outcomes at this stage.

Commissioner reporting: Employment starts are recorded and verified against HMRC RTI from this phase. The interim outcome report is produced covering retention, employment starts, and projected final outcomes.

Outcome: First employment or meaningful employment-adjacent activity, on her terms.

The phase most programmes do not have at all. She is in work or close to it. Now the support intensifies rather than withdrawing. Managing the workplace with a trauma history or chronic health condition is its own skill set.

Evidence basis: Centre for Mental Health (2022) confirms that in-work support for a minimum of 12 weeks post-placement achieves significantly higher 26-week sustainability rates. The 13-week sustained employment milestone is tracked and evidenced in this phase.

Outcome: Not just employed. Stable in employment, with the tools and the support to stay.

She is employed, she is stable, and now she is planning her future on her own terms. Career development, longer-term goals, and the transition from supported participant to self-directed professional.

Commissioner reporting: The 26-week sustained employment milestone is tracked and evidenced in this phase. Final TRIUMPH pillar re-scoring produces the complete transformation trajectory. The comprehensive final outcome report is produced at programme end.

Outcome: A woman who has moved from surviving her circumstances to directing her future.