About the Employment and Skills Hub

Derby City Council, as part of the Derby Promise, has created the Derby Employment and Skills Hub to help you gain the confidence, support and skills to move into employment.

The Hub, is based at the Council House and is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

To be directed to The Hub, please ask at the Council House reception.

The Hub provides the following support:

Free face to face careers advice for anyone over the age of 18

If you are unsure about what type of work would suit your skills and experience, need help to develop your career, or want some advice on how to find a job that matches your talents, you can book an appointment with one our qualified National Careers Service advisers. Here is what people have say about the help they received:

[My adviser] looked at my cv and made helpful changes to boost my chances of finding a job.

[My adviser] was absolutely amazing. She was kind and communicative, and gave me some really helpful advice.

Youth Guarantee Programme

If you are a young person aged 16 to 25, there is specialist support available through our Youth Guarantee programme. This combines intensive employability support and access to training, funding to help remove barriers, and work experience programmes with Derby City Council and other employers in the city. This support is available to any young person living in Derby who is not in education or employment and will be tailored to meet your needs.

We particularly welcome people with learning difficulties and disabilities, care leavers or any young person who just needs that extra bit of help to move into employment.  

Here is what young people say about the help they received:

The SEO’s [supported employment officers] are like your own silent machine, working behind the scenes collating all the best opportunities, treating each of the participants with tailored and individual care.

Connect to Work

Regardless of your age we provide intensive employability support for anyone who has experienced ill health or disability or faces a range of complex and societal barriers that prevents them working. This could include homelessness, being an ex-offender, experience of the care system or refugee status, but other barriers may also apply. 

Our Connect to Work programme is designed around you and by working with one of our friendly supported employment officers you will get all the help you need to find and stay in a job. As well as personalised help with CVs and applications and support to overcome interview nerves, we can assist with accessing funding that can help remove barriers. We will also work with you and employers to help them understand your capabilities at work and so smooth the transition into a job.   

You do not have to be claiming benefits and support is also available to people in work but at risk of losing their job, subject to eligibility.

Here is what people say about the help they received:

I am really pleased [my adviser] spoke to me about the programme and grateful for all her support. I gained the skills and experience to get to where I wanted to be. I know I would not have been able get my apprenticeship if it wasn’t for being part of the programme.

You can book an appointment for any of these services by contacting us by email at employmentandskills@derby.gov.uk, calling 01332 956989 or popping in to see us at The Hub.