New service aims to help jobless back into work in Nottinghamshire

The scheme seeks to match recently redundant workers with new jobs in sectors experiencing large demands for new staff.

While the government has created the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, designed to help businesses retain their staff during the current outbreak by paying 80 per cent of an employee’s salary, there are still redundancies currently being made by businesses across Nottinghamshire.

This is occurring while simultaneously large gaps in the labour market are appearing in sectors vital to the ongoing fight against coronavirus.

D2N2’s ‘Redeployment Triage Service’, to be administered by Futures, will match those recently made redundant with new work in sectors experiencing a surge in employment demand such as food retail, care, and distribution.

D2N2 head of people and skills Rachel Quinn said: “This valuable rapid response triage service will match redundancy situations to redeployment where possible and create additional support through employment services where further employability or skills help is required.”

To read more about the Triage Service or to inform the service about a recruiting need, go to the www.D2N2lep.org/TriageService.