Employability Mentor

Job Title:                   Employability Mentor

Responsible to:         Job Assist Centre Greater Shankill, Employability Team Coordinator

Hours:                        Part time (21.5 hours per week)

Salary:                        £25,463 per annum pro rata

Pension:                     First Year service 3% employers Contribution rising 1% with every years service to a maximum of 7%

                                    5% Employees contribution from employment start date.         

Contract Term:         End March 2022

The post will involve working at neighbourhood level in Greater Shankill Belfast, to support the development of an employment service infrastructure to improve the potential of long-term unemployed, economically inactive and workless people to gain employment. Working from the office of the Job Assist Centre Greater Shankill, 252 Shankill Road, Belfast, the successful candidate will undertake the necessary outreach work to identify and engage an appropriate number of potential clients to meet the agreed caseload and employment targets.

Essential Criteria:

1. NVQ Level 3 or above in Advice and Guidance, Counselling, Careers Guidance or equivalent and at least one year’s proven competence in providing career/employability mentoring.

OR

3 years’ (in the last 5 years) proven competence in providing career/employability mentoring.

2. Demonstrable experience in working with long-term unemployed and/or economically inactive and/or those who experience labour market disadvantage supporting them into work.
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
4. Sound knowledge of ICT including all Microsoft Office applications (word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook, internet etc.)
5. Experience of promoting services, to a range of audiences, in order to recruit new participants.
6. Experience of working positively in a target driven environment.
7. Valid driving licence and access to transport appropriate for the post.

(Consideration will be given to candidates, who due to a disability, cannot hold a driving license but they must have access to a mode of transport that allows them to fulfil the duties of the post)

• We will not accept incomplete application forms; application forms received after the closing deadline or reformatted application forms.
• Please only return the application form and monitoring form.
• Applicants using Royal Mail should note that 1st class mail does not guarantee next day delivery. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that sufficient postage has been paid to return the form to Job Assist Centre Greater Shankill to meet the required deadlines.
• Impact Training Ltd will not accept application forms where there has been a shortfall in postage.
• Should you have any queries please contact the Administrator on 02890 246226 or email at [email protected]