For every award, we are asking for:
Contact details of person submitting the entry
Name of the organisation submitting the entry
Award category (see below for the 17 options)
Name of delivery partner, employer, colleague, team, manager, successful jobseeker or sector leader!
250 word summary (if shortlisted we’ll use this to promote the entry)
500 word entry (explaining why you feel that your organisation (or nominee) meets with, and excels against, the criteria of the award. Your entry should include examples, case studies or delivery statistics which highlight your entry as an exemplar.
Optional – testimonials from colleagues, partners and participants
This award seeks to recognise an individual employee in a frontline role who has demonstrated exceptional commitment, either through directly helping jobseekers to overcome barriers to enter and maintain work or supporting employers to employ and support in employment jobseekers who have been long term unemployed.
Employment support providers are asked to nominate employees who:
The award winner will be a truly inspiring industry exemplar of how effectively and compassionately to support the long term unemployed into successful and sustainable employment.
This award seeks to recognise an individual managing front-line staff, who has demonstrated exceptional commitment, enabling their team to help jobseekers to overcome barriers to enter and maintain work. This individual will be overachieving against expectations and offering their team a supportive and focussed culture in which to thrive.
Providers are asked to nominate managers who:
The award winner will be a truly inspiring industry exemplar of how effectively and compassionately to support front-line staff who are working in a challenging environment, supporting long-term unemployed people into successful and sustainable employment.
This award seeks to recognise exceptional collaboration between an employment support provider and an employer. This award celebrates partnerships that have demonstrated a strong commitment to working together to improve employment opportunities for long-term unemployed individuals.
Employment support providers should nominate a specific employer who:
The winner will be an employer who has created a successful partnership with an employment support organisation which has resulted in creating good, sustainable jobs for participants.
Recognising a specific jobseeker who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to overcoming barriers to enter and maintain work.
This award seeks to recognise a successful former jobseeker who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to overcome significant personal and/or social barriers to enter and maintain employment. Employment related services providers are asked to nominate jobseekers who:
The award winner will be a truly inspiring individual who will have overcome adversity and demonstrated immeasurable dedication to overcome barriers to work and achieve sustained employment.
This award acknowledges an individual who has demonstrated exceptional skills and dedication in engaging employers to create employment opportunities for jobseekers. This award recognises the crucial role played by these practitioners in fostering strong relationships between employment support providers and employers, ultimately leading to successful employment outcomes.
Employment support providers should nominate an employer engagement practitioner who:
The winner will be an individual who excels in forging connections with employers, ensuring mutual benefits and long-term success.
This award is for a delivery team or an employment support organisation that can demonstrate success when reaching potential participants in local communities, bringing them on to provision and moving them in to good work.
Entrants should show:
This award is for frontline teams who work together to support caseloads of those further from the labour markets, enabling people to achieve economic independence.
Applications for this award should showcase the following:
This award recognises a team or individual who has shown exceptional dedication and innovation in supporting frontline services through enhancing compliance, quality, and performance. It celebrates those who play a crucial role in ensuring high standards and delivering impactful, cost-effective solutions.
Employment support providers should nominate a team or individual who:
The winner will be a team or individual who exemplifies excellence in supporting frontline services, leading to substantial improvements in compliance, quality, and overall performance.
The award seeks to recognise an exemplar group of organisations delivering employment support directly to jobseekers on behalf of, or with, another provider (or providers) as part of a subcontracted or partnership agreement. Judges will be looking for evidence of how the partnership, however formal is having a demonstrable impact on the prospects of jobseekers entering and/or sustaining employment, whether through the provision of ‘end to end’, specialist or other services.
Entrants should address the following criteria:
This prestigious award celebrates initiatives that have delivered over and above requirements and have provided exceptional value for money, both in terms of the public purse and value in communities.
Entrants to be able to:
The winner will be an organisation who exemplify a dedication to creating positive social change while efficiently utilising resources and maximising the value delivered to taxpayers.
Recognising an organisation who has pioneered innovative digital approaches and solutions within the employment support market.
Entrants should be able to:
This award recognises programmes and initiatives that have shown outstanding success in engaging and supporting young people, effectively transitioning them into meaningful employment. It celebrates efforts that offer career opportunities and training, addressing the unique challenges faced by young jobseekers.
Employment support providers should nominate programmes or initiatives that:
The winner will be a programme or initiative that excels in empowering young people to overcome employment barriers and achieve lasting, meaningful employment.
This award recognises innovative programmes and interventions that effectively join up health and work to enable individuals to secure and sustain employment. It celebrates solutions that address physical, mental, and emotional health barriers, promoting overall well-being and ensuring long-term job retention.
Employment support providers should nominate programmes or interventions that:
The winner will be a programme or intervention that excels in addressing health-related barriers to work, promoting well-being, and achieving lasting employment for participants.
This award recognises programmes and interventions that have demonstrated excellence in supporting participants to advance in their careers. It celebrates initiatives that provide pathways for career progression, offering upskilling, training, and support to help workers move into higher positions with better pay and greater responsibilities.
Employment support providers should nominate programmes or interventions that:
The winner will be a programme or intervention that excels in empowering workers to upskill, advance in their careers, and achieve better pay and greater responsibilities.
This award recognises skills interventions that effectively equip individuals with the skills needed for today’s and the future job market. It celebrates initiatives that address skills gaps, provide vocational training, and ensure participants are job-ready, meeting the needs of both employers and the evolving workforce landscape.
Employment support providers should nominate programmes or interventions that:
Nominations should attract testimonials from participants, employers, and stakeholders that highlight the programme’s or intervention’s impact on skill development and job readiness.
The winner will be a programme or intervention that excels in bridging skills gaps, providing vocational training, and ensuring participants are equipped for success in the current and future job market.
This award recognises an exceptional individual who has dedicated a significant part of their career to the employment-related services sector and has made a notable impact on the wider sector.
Employment support providers should nominate an individual who:
The winner will be an individual who exemplifies a lifetime of dedication, innovation, and leadership in the employment-related services sector, leaving a lasting legacy of positive change and improvement.
This award recognises an exceptional leader who has made significant contributions to the employment-related services sector as a whole. It celebrates an inspirational individual whose leadership has driven performance, innovation, and policy change, shaping a fairer labour market.
Employment support providers should nominate a leader who:
The winner will be a leader who exemplifies outstanding contribution through performance, innovation, commissioning, and policy change, shaping a fairer and more effective jobs market for all.