Crosby Employment Bureau Services

Our Services

Crosby Employment Bureau is a local Employment Bureau that seeks to re-engage local residents into the labour market as well as providing sector specific recruitment services. It also provides a range of added value services such as payroll services and staff management services for small groups and organisations and a community consultation service for local agencies.

Employment Bureau Core Services

The bureau provides a range of recruitment and temporary employment services primarily in five key sectors:

• Childcare - full and part qualified workers
• Catering - kitchen and front of house staff
• Care staff - care assistants
• Cleaning - domestic and commercial premises
• Clerical and Administration - qualified and experienced

The Bureau offers temporary staff from one hour per day as well as "Temp to perm" staff that provides a member of staff for 13 weeks who is then employed directly by the client company at no further cost. The Bureau also offer businesses with the Filling permanent staff vacancies.

Employment Bureau Specialist Services

The bureau also provides specialist short term temporary staff services for particular client needs these include:

• Interpreter/Translators - trained in house (12 languages available) for a minimum of two hours per session. Currently employed to support Children's Centre Family Worker home visits, Social Services home visits and translation of information leaflets. NLC Adult and Children's Services have recently funded training around confidentiality and professionalism for these staff.
• Event staff - to support events, meeting and greetings customers, face painting, henna painting, car park management, stands, food and drink service, etc. Support the North Lincolnshire Food Festival annually with 25 staff over two days, provide reception staff for Children's centres launches and fun days e.g. Cemex Open Day,.
• Helping Hand Mobile Crèche service - a two hour crèche service for meetings, wedding receptions, training sessions etc. We offer crèches for a maximum of two hours per day on a regular basis and up to 6 full day crèches per year in any one building before it becomes a requirement to register with OFSTED. Crèches are managed within OFSTED adult to child ratios requirements using qualified, trained staff and providing age appropriate, fun activities. Crèches are provided in a risk-assessed building, meet the requirements of our policies and procedures, in a caring and safe, environment.

Added Value Services

• Community Consultation Service - employs locally trained staff to consult within the community. To date this service has successfully carried out consultations on behalf of NLC's Strategic Partnership, Children's Centre Customer Satisfaction Survey, Acorns initial consultation with residents and Crosby Pathfinder alleyway closures.
• Staff Management Service employing staff for organisations that are not employing bodies and charging a management fee. Organisations can include small voluntary groups who do not have the skills or capacity to employ directly, companies who want to employ someone on a short-term contract or temporary basis and large organisations such as the local authority, who have a lengthy process (that can take up to a few months) to recruit an employee. We can advertise and recruit within a minimal timescale.
• Payroll Service to small businesses, projects and voluntary organisations. We currently provide a payroll service to four small businesses/ voluntary sector organisations.