Current Job Vacancies
Job: Mentor Cyflogaeth Cymunedol / Community Employment Mentor
Job Ref: RE-1778
Salary: £30,559.00 - To: £32,654.00
Job Scale: Gradd 5 / Grade 5
Job Hours: 37 Awr / 37 Hours
Location: Amrywiol, gweler isod / Various, see below
Speciality:
Fixed Term until 31st March 2026
Based at: Calon Las/Orbit Business Centre/Various Community Outreach Venues
Community Employment Mentors will provide an intensive one to one mentoring to participants to help them identify and take practical steps to overcome barriers preventing the taking up identified training and employment.
You will support a caseload of participants as identified as being eligible to receive services under the programme, developing and implementing their action plans, addressing barriers to employment, developing employability skills and securing employment whilst actively promoting the services of the programme to a wide range of stakeholders. You will motivate and support participants to move into and most importantly, sustain employment.
Provide flexible, high quality service, working in partnership with Communities For Work, you will be expected to work as part of an integrated team. Supporting participants through a person-centered approach to mentoring and coaching and tackling barriers to employment (arising from poverty and long term activity), providing interventions on an outreach basis, supporting participants in the community. The Programme is integrated into a larger package of support to enable participants to comprehensively address issues around barriers to employment.
For further information please contact Leigh King on 01685 725000 or email Leigh.King@merthyr.gov.uk
You will be required to provide evidence of all qualifications specified as essential.
If you do not have access to the internet, application forms can be obtained by telephoning 01685 725000 and are to be returned no later than 15.05.2025 to HR Administration, Civic Centre, Castle Street, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN.
Email: Human.ResourcesAdmin@merthyr.gov.uk
Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.
All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Any breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.
We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.
Based at: Calon Las/Orbit Business Centre/Various Community Outreach Venues
Community Employment Mentors will provide an intensive one to one mentoring to participants to help them identify and take practical steps to overcome barriers preventing the taking up identified training and employment.
You will support a caseload of participants as identified as being eligible to receive services under the programme, developing and implementing their action plans, addressing barriers to employment, developing employability skills and securing employment whilst actively promoting the services of the programme to a wide range of stakeholders. You will motivate and support participants to move into and most importantly, sustain employment.
Provide flexible, high quality service, working in partnership with Communities For Work, you will be expected to work as part of an integrated team. Supporting participants through a person-centered approach to mentoring and coaching and tackling barriers to employment (arising from poverty and long term activity), providing interventions on an outreach basis, supporting participants in the community. The Programme is integrated into a larger package of support to enable participants to comprehensively address issues around barriers to employment.
For further information please contact Leigh King on 01685 725000 or email Leigh.King@merthyr.gov.uk
You will be required to provide evidence of all qualifications specified as essential.
If you do not have access to the internet, application forms can be obtained by telephoning 01685 725000 and are to be returned no later than 15.05.2025 to HR Administration, Civic Centre, Castle Street, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN.
Email: Human.ResourcesAdmin@merthyr.gov.uk
Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.
All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Any breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.
We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.