A £9m scheme is underway to help long-term unemployed people in Ceredigion and neighbouring counties.
Workways+ offers training and paid work experience opportunities to long term unemployed people to help get their lives back on track.
The three year scheme is backed by £7.5m of European Union funds, and will benefit people in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, which is the lead authority for the project.
The Workways+ Ceredigion office is based in Aberaeron and the project will cover the entire county. So, if you’re aged 25 years or over and have been unemployed for 12 months or more, and not in education or training the scheme would love to hear from you. Support will also be able to help those people affected by work-limiting health conditions and disabilities, as well as those with care responsibilities and low or no skills.
Workways+ will offer you one-to-one mentoring support with job seeking, interview skills help with writing CVs, the chance to gain new qualifications and for some participants, a paid temporary job with a local employer.
Councillor Gareth Lloyd, Cabinet Member with responsibility for Economic and Community Development Services, Ceredigion County Council said: “We hope the success of this scheme in south Wales can be mirrored here in Ceredigion, and hope that residents in the county will be able to make the most of this opportunity for help and support, to get them back into the world of work.”
If you’re a business and would like to enhance your corporate social responsibility objectives, you can work with the scheme to recruit motivated individuals who are looking for employment. You will be allocated a Workways+ Employer Liaison Officer who will be able to match your business with local people, and also support your business through the recruitment process.
The Workways+ employment project will build on the success of the first EU-backed Workways project which helped 12,000 people in South West Wales between 2009 and 2015.
To find out more about the services we provide, please visit the website http://www.workways.wales or get in touch with one of our team on 01545 574193 or email workways@ceredigion.gov.uk
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