Contract Type: Grant Funded until 31/03/2025
Hours: Full Time 37 hours per week
Location of post: The Workstation, Water Street, Port Talbot SA12 6LF
We are currently looking for a Mentor to join our team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting participants and businesses. Within the role you will be liaising with participants, employers and colleagues in regard to employment, training and paid work opportunities. You will support your participants to ensure they are prepared to undertake suitable opportunities available to them by addressing any barriers they have.
The main duties of the post:
Develop and maintain joint working arrangements with partners and agencies to support your participant source employment / training.
Utilise a range of creative and innovative methods to engage with a wide range of economically inactive and unemployed participants. Undertake assessments to contribute to the development of action plans. Maintain accurate and up to date records to ensure eligibility and suitability of support is captured.
You will have experience in/of;
Experience of working with unemployed, economically inactive and those facing barriers to employment. Experience of recruitment procedures.
Ideally you will have.
Level 4 in Advice and Guidance, Mentoring or Counselling. Experience in online databases. Experience of managing a caseload and achieving KPI’s.
If you think that you have the necessary experience and qualifications for this role, we would love to hear from you.
Your workstyle will be a mobile hybrid worker in this role which gives you the flexibility to work from home and from a variety of Council workplaces.
For an informal discussion, please contact Helen Mears on
Phone: 01639 684250
Email: h.mears@npt.gov.uk
DBS requirements:
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS with adult and child barred list.
The recruitment process for this post will be underpinned by rigorous safer recruitment assessment to ensure that children and young people are protected.
Welsh Language skills are not required.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who have a disability and armed forces veterans.
At Team NPT, we all work together to serve the people, communities and businesses of Neath Port Talbot.
We are committed to providing training opportunities and the professional development of all our employees.
We look forward to welcoming you to Team NPT.
