Jobcentre Plus Services

for Employers
 Vacancy Advertising Services
No Bills. Better Business.
At Jobcentre Plus we offer professional,
modern and free Vacancy Advertising
Services to get your jobs noticed by the
right people for you.

Whether you want to fill one vacancy or many, we can help you to reach
the talent you need by advertising your jobs to over 2 million people each
week.
We currently work with over 275,000 employers, advertising more than
400,000 jobs every year, from across the different sectors, including:

● Hospitality

“
With Jobcentre
● Professional

Plus's help we've ● Care Services

recruited some
fantastic ● Retail
employees from
the local
● Manufacturing
community who
are a real
asset.
Melanie Baker
” ●

●
Finance & Legal

Transport
Owner of Tulip
Cleaning Services
● Contact Centres

Employers work with Jobcentre Plus because it makes sense for their
business, saving them time and money and giving them control over how
they recruit. Online, over the phone, in the UK or across Europe. We
have the right options for you to advertise your vacancies.

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Recruitment Advisory Services
Effective Recruitment. Better Business.
Our Recruitment Advisory Services provide free access
to a range of practical measures and financial support to
help employers of any size meet their recruitment needs in
return for working with our candidates.

To access these extra value options we ask employers to work with

Jobcentre Plus to unlock the talent within local communities to help
people get into work and develop the skills of those already in work.

Our Services
Recruitment Support
Jobcentre Plus provides a number of programmes to help you in your
recruitment, and help people return to and remain in work.
In return for agreeing to work with Jobcentre Plus and our candidates,
“
Working in
we offer a wide range of support. partnership with
Jobcentre Plus
The support we offer can vary from financial help to train recruits without means we have
the necessary experience, to practical advice on making reasonable gained a valuable
workplace adjustments to help retain staff who become disabled. framework for
current and
● New Deal – offers subsidies to employers and grants to cover the ongoing
cost of training as part of the support package to help individuals recruitment of a
prepare for their return to work. diverse, talented
and motivated
● Access to Work offers support for employers and individuals to help
workforce.

●
them return to, or stay in work.
The Job Introduction Scheme offers a weekly grant to employers to
Dave Reay ”
Senior Controller
help with employment costs for the first few weeks of employing a Personnel, Nissan
disabled person. Motors UK
● Train to Gain offers employers in England the opportunity to develop
the skills of their workforce with help from the Learning and Skills
Council.
● Work trials offer employers a risk-free way to try out a potential
employee for up to 30 days at no cost to the business.

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 Local Employment Partnerships
Effective Recruitment. Strong Communities.
Better Business.

Local Employment Partnerships

Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) are a significant component of our
Recruitment Advisory Services. Local Employment Partnerships are a deal
between Government and employers to tackle the increasing recruitment
and skills challenges of our labour market and economy.
Jobcentre Plus will work with you to identify your recruitment needs and
deliver job ready candidates by accessing the range of Government

“
My confidence
services available to employers.
In return you can offer employment opportunities to the people who live in
and self esteem
is growing every the communities you operate in.
day. I'm going to
get different
NVQs and I'm
going on a
course to
“
Our partnership with Jobcentre Plus has benefited both
parties by providing people with an opportunity to build
understand confidence in applying for a new job. It has expanded our
mental health labour market and given us access to some
issues.
Gary Fuller ”
Care Assistant
wonderful people in the local area.
Jackie Lindsay
”
Head of Customer Contact, Capita Life & Pensions
recruited by
Exemplar Health
Care through a LEP

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Jobcentre Plus Services
for Employers

Get in touch

Online
Use our Employer Direct online service to register and manage your
vacancies, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For total control whenever you
like – go online to www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/employers
Or E-mail your vacancies to us at
employerdirect-vacancies@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk and we will register
the details on our systems for you.

Over the phone

“
Working with
Jobcentre Plus is
Call us on 0845 601 2001 and within 10 minutes your vacancies could proving really
be online and accessible to millions of potential applicants through beneficial for
Jobcentre Plus, the UKs No.1 recruitment website. Norfolk County
Services. They
Alternatively, fax your vacancy details through to us on 0845 601 2004
are a great
and we will place your vacancies for you.
source of
untapped local
Across Europe people and we
have found work
Using Jobcentre Plus means your vacancy can be seen across Europe. trials and
As members of the European Employment Services (EURES) network we guaranteed
automatically link your vacancy to all public employment services in the interviews have
been valuable for
European Economic Area.
all involved.
This means you can:
● Advertise your vacancy on the European Job Mobility Portal:
Alison Peart ”
Human Resources
www.eures.europa.eu Officer at Norfolk
County Services
● Use the EURES CV search facility to view over 300,000 European
candidates' CVs
● Get advice on international recruitment and job mobility from a
European network of over 700 EURES advisers.
Find out more at www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/employers

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For more information or to place a vacancy contact us online or by
telephone:

www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/employers
0845 601 2001
Textphone 0845 601 2002
Textphones are a service for hearing impaired customers, and don’t
accept text messages from mobile phones.
Open Monday-Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday 10am-4pm. Call charges
vary by company or tariff.

Jobcentre Plus is committed to

applying the principles of equal
opportunities in its programmes
and services.
Part of the Department for
Work and Pensions

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