Support For Employers

We support employers to attract, develop and retain a greener, healthier and inclusive workforce.

Our free offer includes helping employers to develop opportunities to respond to immediate recruitment needs, including jobs and apprenticeships and explore current and future skills requirements. 

We work with all companies from SMEs to large employers to develop and deliver a bespoke employability offer. This includes promotion of all opportunities across the city through engagement with partners, social media promotion, access to city wide career events and community information sessions for large scale recruitment.

Social Value measures the value businesses create for the economy, communities, and society. It refers to the wider financial and nonfinancial value created by an organisation through its day to day activities in terms of the wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We work with businesses to explore how their activities can provide a positive social, economic and environmental impact.

This can include engagement with children and young people in schools and colleges through supporting careers programmes and events, employability activity, community engagement, volunteering, local supply chain opportunities and exploring how to put in place sustainable practices to protect the environment.

We also support contractors and developers who have social value obligations through the planning and procurement process.

A skilled workforce helps to increase productivity, attract and retain talent and increases profitability.

We work with employers to understand current and future skills needs both to support the upskilling or reskilling of existing employees and to support future pipeline needs.

We can identify current skills provision in the city and beyond. We can also future skills pipeline needed for businesses to be able to grow and compete to take advantage of new opportunities.

We provide support to employers who wish to recruit an apprentice or to consider upskilling their current workforce through an apprenticeship programme. We can work with businesses to identify the apprenticeship standard, provide advice on training providers, explore funding support and advertise the vacancy.

An apprenticeship is a job with training which leads to work related qualifications. There are currently around 1,700 job roles covering more than 170 industries ranging from intermediate, advanced, higher and degree.  

More employers are benefitting from hiring apprentices and upskilling their existing staff. 75% of employers said taking on an apprentice has helped their business to improve the quality of their product and service.