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Introduction
JET South Liverpool provides high quality recruitment services to companies and residents in South Liverpool.
Applicants: At JET South Liverpool we take pride in putting people first. Whether your needs are short or long term, temporary or permanent, employment or training, we'll work with you to help you achieve your goals. Please feel free to browse our job vacancies and then register with us - even if you don't see a suitable vacancy, we regularly work miracles!
Employers: Our highly experienced team interview, test and evaluate potential employees to ensure that your requirements are fully met. We're always available to discuss your requirements and to visit your company to ensure that we not only find the relevant technical skills but also find the right person for the right job.
If you have a vacancy please register with us or email us.
What is JET?
JET South Liverpool seeks to offer a quality, client-driven service to the residential and business communities, enhancing the choices and employability of individuals and the competitiveness of the local economy.
It adopts an innovative and sustainable approach, offering good value for money, integrated services and continuous improvement.
Jobs, Education and Training (JET) offers a range of services to residents and businesses in South Liverpool, helping people match their abilities and interests with job or training opportunities and assisting employers in finding the right staff with the right training.
JET South Liverpool is an independent organisation that is funded by the Government and Europe to contribute to the revitalisation of the area and improve opportunities for its residents by offering professional, impartial and confidential advice on jobs, education and training.
If you are looking for work... we will support you all the way. Typically this will involve looking at your interests and abilities and then building on these - possibly through training - to match you with the right job.
Finding employment
Advice and guidance to help you choose a career which suits your skills, abilities and interests
Information and advice on local and city wide employment opportunities
Help with job search, e.g. writing a CV, completing application forms, preparing for interviews
Up to date information on a wide range of careers
Information and advise in educational and training opportunities
Information on grants and loans to help you finance your career plans
A careers action plan which shows you the steps which you need to take to reach your career goals
Finding the right employees
Advice on grants that may be available to assist with your recruitment needs
Full recruitment advice and support whether for large scale recruitment or single vacancies
Job matching against our extensive client database
Psychometric testing and personality profiling testing services by our fully qualified staff
Temporary staff
Redundancy support services
Matching local training provision to meet your needs
A 'one stop shop' for all your HR requirements
Your Entitlement
As a client of JET South Liverpool you are entitled to a service which is:
Responsive to your needs
Confidential - no information will be passed on to any person or agency without your consent
Impartial - JET South Liverpool will act independently of any other supporting agency and will always strive to give you the best advice
Accessible
Accurate and up to date - all information is reguarly reviewed and updated
Unbiased - JET South Liverpool believes in equality and will promote equality of opportunity in education, training and employment
Delivered by trained and competent staff
Accountable - all guidance will result in an agreed action plan which will document the advice you have been given
History
The JET was established in 1996 by Speke Garston Partnership as part of its Round 1 Single Regeneration Budget programme. It is designed to offer practical help on education, training and employment issues.
In 1996 unemployment in the Speke Garston area was over 22% and long term unemployment (more than 3 years) was 34%, rising to over 40% in parts of the Speke estate.
It was recognised that for regeneration to be effective:
Local employers and inward investors must recognise the potential in the local community
Residents must acquire the requisite skills
Job opportunities must be made available to residents
It has been necessary to change both attitudes amongst employers who assumed that long term unemployed people were unemployable and to boost confidence among local people in their own abilities and in the capacity of training and employment services to meet their needs.
Development
During 2000, the JET restructured its service delivery in order to improve the support offered to the business and residential communities of the Speke-Garston SRB area. In addition, Liverpool was awarded £25 million SRB 6 to help reverse the economic decline of Merseyside and drive forward the future prospects of the region.
A key component of this approach was to develop a theme of Equity - linking local people to current and future City Centre opportunities, particularly the anticipated 30,000 growth in jobs to eradicate economic and social disparities between Liverpool's deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the City/ region.
To deliver this the City has built upon the successful JET approach developed in Speke Garston. This has seen the establishment of five area based JET services, including JET South Liverpool, and a City Centre employer support unit known as 'The People Pool'.
2002 has seen JET South Liverpool delivering its services to residents and employers across south Liverpool, including areas in Netherley and Valley. In September, the organisation was incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee and the first quarter of 2003 will see JET South Liverpool become fully independent of Liverpool City Council.
Contact us
JET South Liverpool was established in 1996 to offer a range of services to residents and businesses, helping people match their abilities and interests with job or training opportunities and assisting employers in finding the right staff with the right training.
We have a Management Board made up of representatives from the local community, training and further education agencies that operate in the area and local businesses.
There are various ways that you can contribute to the development of the services offered by JET South Liverpool - one way is to let us know your views on what we are doing.
So help us to improve by:
Commenting on the work of JET South Liverpool
Letting us know when something has gone well
Letting us know if you are unhappy about any aspect of JET South Liverpool's work
If you wish to make a compliment, complaint or comment then you can:
If you have any comments on the work we have undertaken to date or have any ideas for future development, please complete and return the form below.
Complaints procedure
We will carefully consider all compliments or complaints and will acknowledge any compliment or complaint within 3 working days of receipt.
If we are not able to immediately resolve a matter that you have raised, a member of staff will be appointed to investigate and you will be informed of a date for the completion of the investigation.
In the event that you are not satisfied with the outcome then the matter will be referred to the Director, and/ or the Chair of the JET South Liverpool Board.
Anonymous Complaints We will record receipt of anonymous complaints, but we will only investigate those where names and addresses are provided. Your details we be treated confidentially.
Other Help If you prefer you can complain to your South Liverpool Partnership, your local Councillor or MP.
All complaints are to be addressed to the Director at:
JET South Liverpool
85 - 87 South Parade, Speke
Liverpool L24 2SF
Telephone: 0151 448 1131
Career Guidance
Designed to improve residents' access to local and city wide job opportunities - particular the long-term unemployed and young people - and to reduce unemployment.
Two area-based Community Support Teams aim to raise the expectations and motivation of clients by exposing them to professional career guidance and counselling support. Clients are assisted in making informed choices that are related to local labour market needs, and in particular to areas of skill shortage and potential growth.
Amongst the services offered by the Community Teams are:
Guidance
Job search
CV preparation
Application form completion
Registration for employment
Training referral
Individual redundancy support
Client follow up
Signposting to other services
Training delivery in confidence building and interview techniques
The two teams offer targeted support in Netherley & Valley and in Speke Garston. Full-time qualified Guidance Officers provide in-depth guidance sessions for those clients that have not identified career aspirations. Information Officers provide individual information sessions with clients, assisting in the production of action plans that summarise career goals.
Employees Register
Whether your needs are short or long-term, temporary or permanent, we will interview and assess your skills to ensure that we match your career aspirations with the most suitable opportunities.
Business Services
During 2000, JET South Liverpool restructured its service delivery in order to improve the support offered to the business and residential communities of south Liverpool.
This has seen the formation of a team of staff that work closely with employers such as Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Liverpool Marriott Hotel South, Lear Corporation, South Liverpool Housing, Knowsley Housing Trust and tenant retail outlets on the New Mersey Shopping Park.
The team works with such companies to fulfil their recruitment needs. This will range from handling one-off vacancies to large-scale recruitment on behalf of an inward investing company.
The majority of the services offered by the team to employers are free and include liaison with other key agencies such as Speke Garston Development Company, Jobcentre Plus, Greater Merseyside Enterprise and the Liverpool Business Centre.
The JET has an extensive database of people who are interested in the job opportunities in the area and this is used to match the 'right person with the right job'.
Support Overview
More recently, the team has developed a range of chargeable services and this work will continue as JET South Liverpool Ltd. begins to move away from dependency on UK Government and European grants, to become a self sustaining, not-for-profit social enterprise.
New areas of work include the delivery of personality profiling and psychometric testing services using the SHL systems and the full management of a recruitment process from the design of a job description, person specification and application form through to the sifting of applicants prior to interview by the employer.
In response to demand from local employers, JET South Liverpool is also planning to offer a temporary staff service. This will not only satisfy local demand, but will also help to contribute to the JET's long term aim of upskilling the local workforce and strengthening the local economy.
This can only be achieved by understanding employer need and using this information to ensure that there is a local labour supply available with the right skills and abilities for the job by working closely with the JET's own Guidance Teams and local training providers such as Partnership for Learning.
Business Testimonials
Mel Durrans - HR Officer, Liverpool South Marriott Hotel "From our very pre-opening stages, I have been given assistance with our recruitment open day, work trials, additional recruitment as well as help with preparing candidates for a suitable job role here. It is very refreshing to find such a partnership that is prepared to listen to what the employer wants. It really is a pleasure to work with the JET Centre."
Jan Smales - Human Resource Manager, LEAR Corporation "We chose the JET to support us because we were impressed by the quality of their team, knowledge and experience. We were not let down. Over 250 staff now provide a quality product to Jaguar."
Caroline Holmes - HR Manager, Bank of Scotland "Following consultation with the JET Business Team we have introduced profiling for a number of our key job opportunities. Profiling has aided selection and development and help reduce staff turnover."
Rebecca McDougall - HR Advisor, Borders (UK) Ltd "The telephone screening meant that the applicants we saw were the type of candidates we wanted to see and the allotted interview times meant that the day ran really smoothly with no-one having to wait for long periods before getting an interview. The JET has certainly set a high standard for organising our recruitment event and we plan to follow your example with our jobs fairs scheduled for other parts of the country in the new year."
Susie Wright - HR Manager, Visteon "The JET Business Team advised on relevant ability tests which we could use in the recruitment of our new workforce. They took the whole responsibility for administering and collating the results, which ultimately reduced the time we had to spend in the recruitment process."
Employers Register
If you are an employer seeking to recruit only the most suitable candidates then JET South Liverpool is the agency for you. We rigorously pre-screen and vet potential employees to ensure they meet the criteria set out by you. Our highly experienced consultants will interview, test and evaluate potential employees to make sure we find you the right person with the right skills.
Our consultants are always available to discuss individual requirements and to visit you so that we not only find the relevant technical skills but also find the best people to match your company ethos.
If you are an employer seeking to recruit only the most suitable candidates then JET South Liverpool is the agency for you.We rigorously pre-screen and vet potential employees to ensure they meet the criteria set out by you. Our highly experienced consultants will interview, test and evaluate potential employees to make sure we find you the right person with the right skills.
Our consultants are always available to discuss individual requirements and to visit you so that we not only find the relevant technical skills but also find the best people to match your company ethos.
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