Help and support for businesses from Durham Employment and Skills service

Help for businesses

Support for your recruitment needs

Our professionally qualified team have an excellent knowledge of the labour market and understand local recruitment challenges

If you've got vacancies to fill, we'll work with you to enable an effective recruitment process to make sure you get the right candidate for the job. We can deliver pre-employment training that prepares candidates for your vacancies, ensuring they are work ready. We'll also support those candidates once they're in place.

Training and assessment packages for employers, the self-employed and their workforce

Our training and assessment personnel are experienced professionals with a proven background in delivering high quality learning and development courses. They will work with you to plan a training and assessment package tailored to your business's needs to help it grow and develop.

Training and assessment solutions are available and include:

• Dementia Awareness
• Level 2 Award Customer Service and Sales
• Digital Media for Business
• Level 2 Certificate in Retail, Customer Service, Hospitality
• Level 2 Food Safety in Catering
• Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work (1 day)
• Level 3 First Aid at Work (3 day)
• Level 3 Paediatric First Aid (2 day)
• Level 2 Health and Safety in the Workplace
• Level 2 Manual Handling (objects)
• Multiply for employees

Training events are delivered at our venues, or can be delivered at a suitable venue on site as part of a work-based learning and assessment package.

Durham Employment and Skills employers booklet (PDF, 1 MB)

Contact Durham Employment and Skills Service to find out more about the packages available.