Job | Full Time

Career Mentor - Cookstown

Network Personnel

Management
£20,000 per annum to increase to £21,000 per annum on successful completion of probationary period
37.50
Network Personnel was established in 1989 and specialises in the delivery of back to work and employability initiatives. As a result of continued growth, they wish to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified Career Mentor for their Jobmatch Programme

The Jobmatch Programme is part funded through the Northern Ireland European Social Fund 2014 - 2020 and the Department for the Economy.

This is a fixed term post to 31st March 2022 (subject to annual funding review)

 

Career Mentor -Job Purpose


To support the short and long-term unemployed, helping those who are marginalised including ex-offenders, those with drug and alcohol issues, carers, the economically inactive and those who have not reached the threshold for other government initiatives


Core Duties and Responsibilities


 Work directly with participants focusing on engagement and mentoring of participants, promotion and achievement of positive employment, training and education outcomes


 Carry out detailed assessments of need, identifying and addressing personal barriers to education, training and employment which are affecting individual participants


 Create, agree and implement an Employment Action Plan outlining support to address issues, actions and timescales to achieve positive change


 Assist participants with career-mapping, job-search activities, CV planning, interview techniques- providing information, advice and guidance on learning, work and other relevant positive activities


 Actively manage a caseload of participants at any one time on both a one-to-one and group basis ensuring individual learning and employment needs are addressed and appropriate support is in place


 Identify and coordinate a range of recruitment and selection strategies to secure progression towards employment for participants


 Be a reliable and professional advocate for participants, sourcing and engaging with suitable training providers and employers, on their behalf and/or signposting participants to a range of universal groups, support services/organisations as required


 Undertake ongoing evaluation of outcomes and impacts of both specific interventions and overall impact in terms of progressing individuals


 Deliver/facilitate programmes/workshops based on identified needs of participants


 Work in a confidential and professional manner responding to sensitive issues that ensures participant welfare and safety is of paramount importance and subject to safeguarding guidelines


 Be quality and target driven, ensuring all DfE/ESF and organisational targets, deadlines and standards are achieved and consistently achieve set individual objectives, targets and K.P.I.s


 Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, community and voluntary organisations


 Maintain accurate records, ensuring the accuracy and completion of all administrative forms and ensuring that all progress towards training and employment is recorded, monitored and reviewed on an ongoing basis


 Provide accurate statistical reports and management information in a timely manner to assist with the monitoring and evaluation of the programme


 Ensure high levels of customer service are maintained through follow up contact with employers, clients and other stakeholders


 Demonstrate a commitment to the safeguarding of ‘Adults at Risk’, reporting issues as they arise


 Develop and sustain effective working relationships within the Jobmatch Team, Network Personnel and other stakeholder groups e.g. attending team meetings, networking events, etc.


 Undertake CPD activities which enhance individual and organisational performance, maintaining/developing relevant skills to the highest professional standards


 Adhere to and uphold Network Personnel’s Code of Conduct, policies, procedures and values at all times including Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, Data Protection, Lone Working, Confidentiality etc. and provide these policies to clients


 Undertake regular, formal reviews with the line manager, reflecting on targets, performance and practice


 Any other related/reasonable duties as required by management and/or the business objectives.

 

(further details on Job Description, Person Specification and Applicant Declaration attached)

 

Closing Date

Monday / 30 July 2018
5:00pm

Contact Details

Molesworth Street
Cookstown
BT80 8NX
United Kingdom

Files

Jobmatch Career Mentor Declaration Form 0418.docx Jobmatch Career Mentor JD & PS Cookstown July CNI 2018.pdf

The Jobmatch Programme is part funded through the Northern Ireland European Social Fund 2014 - 2020 and the Department for the Economy