D2N2 employment support
This page provides information on the different employment schemes available in Chesterfield and surrounding areas.
On this page:
- Universal employment support
- Employment support for people with disabilities or health issues
- D2N2 employment and skills provision
Works coach support
- Job Finding Support
- Sector-Based Work Academy Programme (SWAPs)
- New Enterprise Allowance
Job entry-targeted support
Support for individuals unemployed for three months.
RESTART
Employment support for individuals unemployed for 12 months or more.
The Work and Health Programme (WHP) for long-term unemployed
Helping people who are disabled, long-term unemployed unemployed or in early access group.
Employment support for people with disabilities and/or health issues
Work and Health Programme Priority Groups
Supporting disadvantaged groups into sustainable employment, for example, over-50-year-olds.
Intensive Personalised Employment Support (IPES)
Employment support for individuals with multiple and complex needs.
Access to Work
Helps more disabled people start or stay in employment.
Nottingham City Council
- Engage Nottingham – supporting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity (BAME) individuals in Nottingham access employment and skills provision
- Nottingham Jobs Fund - providing financial incentives to employers to assist recruitment of Nottingham City residents
- Community Hubs - joint initiative between the council’s Locality Management Team and Economic Development, providing wrap around support for residents
- Area Leads – partners providing employment support and wrap around interventions within the community
Nottinghamshire County Council
- i-work - employment support for aged 18+ with autism or learning disabilities
- Supported Employment Hub - for anyone with learning disabilities, includes Brooke Farm provision
- Inspire - adult learning budget and employment and skills training
- Employability programme - for parents of children under 5 years old using Children’s Centres in Nottinghamshire
- Care Leavers Achievement Team - working with care leavers to help them into work
Derbyshire County Council
- Disability Employment Service - people with disabilities only
- National Careers Service - Derbyshire County Council deliver this service in their area
- Ambition - service for people with learning disabilities
- Care Leavers Employment Team - helping care leavers into work
- CF03 APM - ex-offenders only; either in prison, due to be released or on-licence in the community
- Work Your Way (IPS) - engaged in secondary mental health services only, 18+ (Derbyshire)
- Future's Positive – (IPS) - engaged in secondary mental health services only, 18+ (Nottinghamshire)
- IAPT Employment Advisers - work in primary mental health services to help people into work
- Autism Employment Services - specialist advisors for people with autism, delivered by a range of organisations including Autism EM
- D2N2 Skills Access Hub - provides bespoke skills training and development opportunities to local businesses in the D2N2 region
- Community and Family Learning - providing community based skills provision for families
- ESOL Project - providing English language training for speakers of other languages
- Apprenticeships - paid employment opportunities for all ages while gaining training and qualifications
- Care 4 Notts and Joined Up Careers - helping people into health and social care roles. Care 4 Notts is also a jobs portal
- National Careers Service- intensive careers support for adults and young people (aged 13 or over)
- Careers and Enterprise Company- employer led support for schools raising aspirations and developing closer connections between employers, schools, colleges and providers
- Future Impact - offers person-centred support for young people with special educational and complex needs in Nottingham
- Start in D2N2 - online careers advice portal for parents, pupils, teachers and employers
- Youth Hubs - Department for Work and Pensions-led initiative supported by Nottinghamshire County Council, providing wrap-around support for young people
- Community Hubs - joint initiative between the council’s Locality Management Team and Economic Development, providing wrap-around support for residents
- Social Prescribing - link workers providing holistic approach to health and wellbeing, including employment support
- D2N2 Growth Hub - business support ranging from access to finance, CPD, export advice and Brexit resilience
- New Enterprise Allowance - Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) support for those claiming certain unemployment benefits to become self-employed
- Future Self-Employment - DWP support for individuals seeking progression into self-employment
- B-Global - targeted business support for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity (BAME)-led businesses
- Apprenticeships - brokerage and financial support for employers recruiting apprentices
- Area-based business clubs and networks - supporting entrepreneurs using a place-based approach
- D2N2 Pathways to HSC - employment and training support for individuals aged 16+ across D2N2 within the health and social care sector
- Ways2Work - working with people with barriers to getting into employment, education and training
- Start in D2N2 - online careers platform for young people and businesses
- Futures for You - helping people with barriers into employment
- DBC iProgramme - support to improve skills for those in work or out of work
- GRADS for D2N2 - support for businesses to identify skills and talent needs, and benefit from graduate talent in the region
- COVID-19 recovery fund for young people - employment and training support for individuals 16-24 across D2N2
- COVID-19 recovery fund for people over 25 years - employment and training support for people aged 25+ across D2N2
- Community Renewal Fund – a range of projects supporting people into work (October start)
- Careers Hubs – new ones being developed in south Derbyshire, south Nottinghamshire and north Nottinghamshire
- Adult Education Budget - support for adults including employability training and job search
- Apprenticeships - provision by a range of providers to support employers to take on new apprentices and/or upskill their current staff; this is for people of all ages and includes entry level and higher apprenticeships via universities
- Traineeships - provision of job search and support to find traineeships in a range of occupations
- Others - delivered by housing organisations, charities and other organisations such as the Prince’s Trust's Get Into programme, Trackworks. Varies by area
- Headstart - young people’s employment project delivered by Family Action, including work placements with national employers