Engage Employment Solutions Ltd is a specialist employment broker with extensive experience of working directly with employers to determine their recruitment needs and promote diversity through the employment of disadvantaged people.

The Engage team has a reputable history of designing and delivering innovative workforce solutions for employers, frequently acting as a broker between the public, voluntary and private sectors.

The team’s focus is on the employers’ needs; key strengths are the ability to work in partnership and decipher public sector speak to utilise existing government initiatives.

For more information on what Services Engage can offer your business please go to the relevant section of this site.

Current Projects
·The Engage Partnership – a highly innovative forum of over 28 employment support agencies. The members work together to increase the number of unemployed disadvantaged residents accessing sustainable employment through tailored training, mentoring, placement and employment initiatives. To compliment the outputs of each agency, the Engage Partnership has been directly responsible for generating over 250 vacancies.

·The Tourism Forum – a ‘one stop shop’ for employment, training and networking opportunities that is open to all businesses in the tourism sector. Members include the top thirteen hotels in the City and local tourist attractions, such as Brighton Pier. All are signed up to the Tourism Charter, which is a formal commitment to employ local people currently disengaged from the labour market. Engage specialises in translating public sector speak for businesses to access the wide range of government-funded initiatives.

·The Brighton & Hove LEADER Group – Local Employers Acting on Diversity, Equality and Race. This is a new employer-led group set up to promote diversity in the City by developing best practice guidelines around staff recruitment and retention, training and development. The group hosts free events and workshops on all aspects of diversity for all businesses in the City. Any locally based business can sign up to LEADER Charter free of charge, which is a formal commitment to develop a more diverse workforce and employ from under-represented groups. This is a rapidly growing group of over twenty members and it is envisaged that the LEADER brand will be recognised as a diversity charter mark of distinction for all local employers.

Track Record
To date the Engage Team have delivered the following products and services:
·The Equal Brighton & Hove Engage Partnership
·The Brighton & Hove City Council Local Employment Partnership Programme: Engage was commissioned to develop the framework and deliver on Brighton & Hove City Council’s LEP, which is a formal commitment to link with Jobcentre Plus to recruit a more diverse workforce. Engage worked closely with its partners and across all Council departments to develop a supported route for marginalised individuals to access employment. Engage put in place a robust sustainable model that builds on good practice and addresses issues around recruitment. The model further develops a culture of support, training and personal development within the organisation and embeds government initiatives, such as Train to Gain.
·The Brighton & Hove LEADER Group
·The Brighton & Hove Tourism Forum and Charter
·Constructing Futures Project - generated over 50 construction apprenticeship placements, over 150 work placements and over 30 NVQ Assessors. It formed a construction forum for key local employers