Liverpool charity Career Connect recognised as one of the top 100 companies to work for

The Best Companies to Work for Lists and Best Companies Accreditation are recognised as the standard in workplace engagement across organisations of all sizes.

Career Connect joins other Merseyside-based organisations in the Top 100 Best Companies List including The Regenda Group, Brabners LLP and Mowgli Street Food.

Best Companies surveyed all 330 of Career Connect’s staff on a range of topics including leadership, happiness at work, work-life balance, benefits and organisational structure.

Experts in all things careers, Career Connect’s mission is to drive social mobility by enabling more people to access and succeed in education, training and employment – and this same mission is behind their approach to staff engagement, wellbeing and development.

Consistent staff engagement

Career Connect places a focus on consistent staff engagement, to ensure a welcoming and inclusive workplace. Staff-led groups include equality and diversity, neurodiversity, and menopause awareness. The charity holds regular wellbeing weeks, brings in guest speakers on a range of topics, and offers on-site massage therapy to ease away any aches and pains. To enable good work-life balance, staff also have access to flexitime.

Career Connect invests in staff development, funding accredited coaching and careers qualifications. Staff are also invited to put forward ideas for their own research projects to promote best practice in service delivery and their own professional development.

Staff benefits include cyclescheme and electric car lease schemes, Perkbox, holiday purchase scheme, flu jabs and glasses, interest free loans and an Employee Assistance Programme.

The latest in a string of accreditations

The Top 100 Best Company accolades follow on from a string of other recent accreditations and awards for the Charity.

Career Connect currently holds the title as one of the Top 10 Most Inclusive Workplaces for 2023, in a list compiled by the National Centre for Diversity. It also has Disability Confident Leader status and is proud to recruit a diverse workforce of people from different cultural backgrounds.

Career Connect is accredited as a Living Wage Employer by the Living Wage Foundation. It was also one of the first organisations to sign up to LCR Mayor Steve Rotheram’s Fair Employment Charter and has reaffirmed its commitment to the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.

Career Connect CEO Sheila Clark, said:

“This is a superb achievement for our first time completing the full Best Companies survey.

“We help people move into employment – and we strive to be a positive example of a good employer, supporting our own staff in their careers.

“It is vital that all workplaces are inclusive and create an environment where people feel comfortable and truly valued.

“As a charity that designs support services, and as an employer, we know how important it is not just to listen, but to acknowledge feedback and take positive actions wherever we can in response.

“Thank you to all of our staff who shared their feedback, and to our People Team, who drive our culture of constructive dialogue and constant improvement, to ensure that we are an employer for all.”

Career Connect’s Head office is in Exchange Flags, Liverpool. Locally, it has offices in Toxeth and Norris Green, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, Manchester, Halton, St Helens and Salford.

The charity also delivers services nationally, including East and North Midlands, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.