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 10 options)
Name of delivery partner, employer, colleague, team, manager, successful jobseeker or sector leader!
300 word summary (if shortlisted we’ll use this to promote the entry)
750 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. NOTE: Supporting documents are not included in your 750 word entry limit, these can be attached separately but do remember to reference the evidence briefly.
Supporting evidence (exert from things like impact reports, appraisals, feedback, testimonies etc)
Optional – presentation slides and or a short video which may be added to ERSA’s Employability showreel on YouTube.
 
Entries can be submitted here.

Frontline Advisor of the Year – Working for Better Work

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.

 

Frontline Manager of the Year – Working for Better Work

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.

 

Employer Partnership of the Year Award – Working for Better Work

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.

 

Achiever of the Year Award – Working for Better Work

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.

 

Employer Engagement Practitioner of the Year Award – Working Together

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.

 

Community Outreach of the Year Award – Working Together

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:

Tailored Employment Support of the Year Award – Working Together

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:

 

The Behind the Scenes Award – Working Together

This award is for teams that support front line services such as IT, service design and research. Those that are delivering cost effective solutions to improve performance.

In your entry, please include:

 

Partnership of the Year Award – Working Together

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:

 

The Sharing Best Practice Award – Working for Everyone

This award is for individuals who contribute to ERSA forums, conferences and networks. It will celebrate those who set the agenda and lead the debate.

Entrants should show:

 

Social Value Award – Working for Everyone

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.

 

Digital Solution of The Year Award

Recognising an organisation who has pioneered innovative digital approaches and solutions within the employment support market.

Entrants should be able to: