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Job Rotation

Boost productivity, improve staff retention and close your skills gaps with industry specific training that works around your workforce with with full end‑to‑end support given throughout the Job Rotation programme.

WMCA are looking for employers to test their Job Rotation programme at higher skills levels across a range of sectors including Advanced Manufacturing, EV and battery development, green industries, health and med tech, digital, and cross-sector capabilities.

The programme is designed to help you upskill and develop your existing workforce, enabling valued team members to progress while their roles are temporarily backfilled with suitable cover. This ensures business continuity with no loss of productivity, while also creating meaningful opportunities for job seekers.

The Job Rotation programme enables you to upskill a current employee while a job seeker steps into their role. It’s a dual-benefit initiative – you develop your workforce with no operational downtime, while providing a valuable work experience opportunity for someone looking to enter employment.

How it works

  • You identify employees who can benefit from training.
  • A jobseeker is then hired to fill in while these employees train.
  • The substitutes get paid a Living Wage, with unemployment benefits topped up, at no cost to the business. These substitutes work for a set time before the trained employees return.
  • The trained employees return back to work with better skills and productivity.
  • Meanwhile, the jobseeker gains experience, making it easier for them to find regular work.

Benefits and Impact 

  • Address staff retention and recruitment challenges
  • Tackle issues linked to an aging workforce
  • Strengthen leadership and development capability within your organisation
  • Improve access to candidates with the right skills for your business needs
  • Support your corporate social responsibility goals, including helping to reduce youth unemployment locally
  • Close higher-level skills gaps, particularly within a fast-growing sector
  • Overcome workforce challenges to support sustainable business growth in a high-potential industry

Get involved

If you are a West Midands based business looking to make a difference and try a new approach to recruitment and retention, this is for you.

Join us in this exciting new programme to improve skills, reduce unemployment, and provide better support for everyone involved.

To find out more and register your interest complete the form below:

Job Rotation Form

Supporters 

“We are really proud to be the first Council in the UK to pilot this scheme which we hope will make a difference to how organisations support their employees and give opportunities to people looking for work.”

Coventry City Council