Whether you’re looking to help your employees learn new skills that will benefit your business or want to inject new talent into your team, there are many Welsh Government programmes available through Business Wales that can support your skills, training and recruitment needs.
You can explore all the available programmes below or if you’re not sure what you’re looking for, why not get in touch? Our Employer Engagement Advisors will discuss your requirements and recommend a programme that’s right for you and your business.
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Recruitment Support
The Young Person’s Guarantee is the Welsh Government’s key commitment to provide everyone aged 16 to 24, living in Wales, with support to gain a place in education or training, and help to get into work or become self-employed.
Future-proof your business and gain fresh perspectives by taking on a young person.
Take advantage of being able to access people with the right skills and ready for work.
Transform your business by offering a route to find new, sector-skills talent
Help your existing staff gain the qualifications and skills your business needs through a free, flexible college course.
Upskill your workforce in digital, exporting, engineering and manufacturing, creative sector and tourism and hospitality
Work with a trade union to develop a three-year training plan, focussed on improving workplace development, learning and essential skills of your staff – with a particular emphasis on removing barriers for traditional non-learners.
To find out how you can access a wide and varied pool of talent leading to increased productivity, creativity and profitability speak to our Disabled People’s Employment Champions. They can provide you with advice on simple solutions to help you recruit and retain talented and skilled disabled
Healthy Working Wales helps employers, individuals and a range of health professionals to support working-age people in Wales to stay fit and healthy so they can remain in employment, or return to work following a period of ill health.
Training Support
We all have the right to work. Get a grant to help towards the additional costs associated with barriers faced by a disabled person in work and practical advice for businesses wishing to employ people with disabilities.
If you’re an employer looking to recruit or expand your workforce with appropriately skilled, trained and motivated staff then the Welsh Government’s Community Employability Programmes could be just what you need.
The In-Work Support Service provides rapid access to tailored occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychological therapy services, designed to help employed or self-employed people return to work or manage a health condition in work.
The Out of Work Service provides peer mentoring and employability support to people who are in recovery from substance misuse and/or mental ill-health. Employers can benefit from three months of advice and support from peer mentors if they employ someone referred by the service.
Share the details of your live vacancy with Working Wales, they can list your vacancy on their job bulletin.
