Remploy teams up with Admiral for new job opportunities
18th March 2008
Admiral’s Richard Thorne celebrates with Remploy’s Kate Brain and Karen Wilcox The new partnership means that jobseekers working with specialist advisors at Remploy’s Cardiff recruitment branch will be guaranteed interviews. They will also have the opportunity to make visits to the company’s Cardiff headquarters in Greyfriars Road.
Since its launch in 1993, Admiral has become one of the UK’s leading providers of low cost motor insurance, and currently employs 2,500 people. Admiral has become a UK leader in the insurance sector and is the only Welsh company in the FTSE 100. The company has also been recognised as one of the 50 best workplaces in the UK and 100 best workplaces in the EU, according to the Financial Times, for the last five years.
The partnership with Remploy, which is the UK’s leading provider of employment services for people with disabilities and health conditions, will ensure disabled candidates can proactively apply for Admiral vacancies and are considered fairly for all roles.
Kate Brain, the manager of Remploy’s Cardiff branch located in Golate Street, said: “Our strategy is to work with the best employers in Wales and the partnership with Admiral is a great development.
”A number of Remploy jobseekers, who we have been advising and supporting, have already gone to work with Admiral and things are going well. We are working closely together to ensure that we can match people to available jobs. We hope the relationship will develop over the course of the year and that more disabled people will get jobs with Admiral.”
Sarah Lewis, 23, from the Riverside area of Cardiff had been out of work with depression. She worked with Remploy’s employment advisors for two months, job-searching and developing job-finding skills, and then secured a job as a claims assessor with Admiral.
She said: ”I was referred to Remploy by Jobcentre Plus. It was great to have somewhere to go on a regular basis where I was helped with job searches and encouraged to apply for positions. I am really enjoying my role – it’s great to be working again.”
Richard Thorne, Admiral’s people services operations manager added: “Being recognised consistently as an organisation that values its staff, we pride ourselves on having a culture of equality and diversity. What matters most to us, as an employer is how someone deals with our customers. We want hard working people with enthusiasm and most importantly, personality; a disability or mental health problem does not affect that.”
Disabled jobseekers and employers are invited to call at the Cardiff branch in Golate Street, which is open from 9am to 5pm Monday – Friday, or to call 0845 155 2568.
