Returners
We aim to recruit from all aspects of the community. This enables us to build a workforce that is representive of its residents.
One area of the employment market the County Council feels it can recruit from is people who have had a career break. Whatever the reason for the break, along with partners such as the Employment Training Services and local colleges, we work hard to help people to return to work.
We recognise that some people may need to update their skills to gain access back into the employment market. So, through our partners, the County Council offers help to enable people to gain the skills they require to gain a job with us.
Employment Training Services
The Employment Training Services Team (ETS) at the County Council works in Partnership with Jobcentre Plus.
Employment Training Services makes a positive contribution to up-skilling the unemployed, including those most disadvantaged in the labour market such as ex-offenders, drug dependants, lone parents, etc, and assisting them back into the workplace promotes safer, stronger and healthier communities, where individuals from all age groups make a positive contribution both to society and the economy.
Employment Training Services is dedicated to working towards the government's aspirational target of an 80% employment rate.
Current contracts:
- New Deal, which includes:
- 18-24 Voluntary Sector and Environmental Task Force
- 25+ Intensive Activity Period
New Deal also offers support, advice and guidance through work experience in a wide variety of skills from retail in charity shops, computer based businesses, technology developers, theatre groups, the construction industry and farming, through to teams working on environmental projects from a Land Rover base.
New Deal also includes Gateway to Work courses, concentrating on jobsearch based training, motivational skills, team building, support and guidance.
- Outreach Plus, which gives unemployed clients, in all areas of York and North Yorkshire, the access to specialist jobsearch help and advice, without having to travel into their nearest Jobcentre. Outreach Plus will assist 2000 people over a 2-year period, (1000 of whom will be specifically targeted IB clients). 45% will move into employment.
- North Yorkshire Works!, which offers opportunities for the Intermediate Labour Market to experience the move off Jobseekers Allowance into paid employment for a fixed term. Often using the skills acquired during New Deal placements, the teams work on horticultural and environmental projects anywhere in the York and North Yorkshire area.
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Ann Sarah Watson - Employment Training Services Manager employment.trainingservices@northyorks.gov.uk
