Jobcentre Plus

New Deal

New Deal seeks to provide new opportunities to unemployed people to train and to gain work experience, so that they have the skills that you need them to have. 

Everyone taking part in New Deal has a personal adviser who provides support until they are ready for work.  Their adviser assesses their skills and experience, helps them overcome issues making it difficult for them to find and keep a job, and provides careers advice and practical help to improve their chances of finding work, (eg computer training or help with interview techniques.)

What New Deal means for you as an employer

By the time they reach you, New Deal candidates will have been through a period of tailored individual advice and support, to ensure they are:

• employable - they will have been through a skills assessment and, where necessary, courses to update their training or skills
• motivated - they will have actively chosen the type of job you have to offer, and
• right for the job- their personal advisers will prepare, screen and match candidates to your job, and will only refer candidates who they think are able and willing to do the job

Under some New Deal programmes, financial support is available to take on and train new employees, enabling you to invest in the future of your organisation, and to employ the people with the skills you need.

Financial help

If you recruit people from New Deal 25 plus or New Deal for Young People you may be able to get extra financial help through an employment subsidy, which is paid for 26 weeks, with the hope that the job will last longer. The subsidy payments for New Deal 25 plus and New Deal for Young People (in brackets) are:

• £75(£60) a week for each person placed in a suitable vacancy of at least 30 hours a week.
• £50(£40) a week for each person placed in a suitable vacancy of between 16 to 29 hours a week (24 to 29 hours for New Deal for Young People).

If you take on anyone under New Deal for Young People, you can also get a grant of up to £750 towards the cost of an agreed qualification or training certificate. You can train them in-house or you can arrange for them to be trained elsewhere.

It is also possible for you to find out how well suited a person is to your job through a  Work Trial – an opportunity for you to try out a potential employee for up to 15 days, at no cost to your business.

All we ask is that as a New Deal employer, you sign an agreement confirming that you will:

• keep the person as long as they show the ability and commitment you need;
• give them the same training as anyone else doing the job;
• monitor and record their progress and identify areas for action, in the same way you would for any other employee, to help them settle in and make progress;
• employ them for at least 26 weeks; and
• fill in a health and safety questionnaire to make sure you meet certain standards

For more information on becoming a New Deal employer speak to the Labour Market and Recruitment Adviser in your local Jobcentre Plus office.

0845 601 2001

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