Vacancies: Mentoring and Employment Officer (2 posts)
Greater Shantallow Area Partnership and Triax Neighbourhood Partnership wish to appoint Mentoring & Employment Officers to deliver the KickSTART To Work Outreach Service in the Outer North and Triax Neighbourhood Renewal Areas.Mentoring and Employment Officer (2 posts)
Salary Scale: NJC (Pt 22-28) £19,427.00 - £23,473.00
Applicants must possess:
- a relevant third level qualification or equivalent and two years paid experience of working with unemployed people, providing advice and guidance enabling them to overcome barriers to employment and achieve sustainable work
or
- have 5 years paid experience of working with unemployed people, providing advice and guidance enabling them to overcome barriers to employment and achieve sustainable work.
Related documents:
- The Full Job notice can be downloaded here
- Complete JobDescription & Personnel Specification can be downloaded here
- The Job Application Form can be downloaded here
The panel reserve the right to enhance the short-listing criteria.
Funding has been secured for the above 2 posts until 31 March 2011.
Application packs can also be obtained by calling into Foyle Jobs & Benefits Office, Asylum Road, Londonderry, BT48 7EA or Lisnagelvin Jobs & Benefits Office, 2 Crescent Link, Londonderry, BT47 2NJ.
Completed application forms must be returned to either of the above addresses no later than 12:00 noon on Thursday 23rd July. It is intended to hold interviews during the week beginning Monday 3rd August.
Are you male or female aged 18+? Would you like to:
- Engage in Art based programmes (mural design, float construction, oral story telling etc)
- Gain Essential Skills qualifications
- Take part in work sampling opportunities
Then why not come along to the Apollo Project Open Day for more information!
Venue: “Feile 09” Family Fun Day event at the Gasyard Centre
Date: Saturday 25th July
Time: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Everyone welcome!
To find out more, please contact Oonagh or Veronica on (028) 71260238 or alternatively email veronica@triaxtaskforce.org
STUDY SUPPORT CENTRE - MANAGER POST FEB 2009
TRIAX have established an Advisory Group who are now in the process of appointing a full-time manager and part-time administrator to the project.
Details of the post are advertised in the Derry Journal 6 Feb 2009 and the North West edition of the Belfast Telegraph 10 Feb with the closing date for applications 12.00 Noon Feb 20 2009. General Information on Project
Business Advisors Moore Stephens Bradley McDaid have been commissioned to undertake the recruitment process for the manager’s post. Details are directly available from Moore Stephens Bradley McDaid
Please email: cmcdermott@msca.co.uk
TRIAX identified the Lecky Rd Flyover as a priority area for action. It remains a blight on the neighbourhood. It has poor lighting on the walkway up to the Long Tower Chapel, graffiti, broken glass and the dumping of rubbish throughout its length. Ongoing problems exist with anti-social behaviour particularly at the walkway at Stanley’s Walk.
TRIAX NMT initiated discussions with the Dept. for Regional Development who have responsibility for the Flyover itself. Other agencies involved include Derry City Council and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
Following an on site meeting with the DRD Minister Conor Murphy the NMT were given an undertaking that DRD would begin an environmental improvement scheme in the area. This kick started other agencies to become involved in the scheme.
To date the NMT intervention has resulted in
- NIHE upgrading the steps opposite the Gasyard Centre
- NIHE maintenance and pruning of the undergrowth adjacent to the Flyover
- NIHE closure of a anti-social hotspot at Durrow Park
- DRD graffiti removal/clean-up Flyover
- Derry City Council installation of Litter Bins
The Mayor Drew Thompson launched the Central @ 70 Exhibition at the Creggan Neighbourhood Centre. Children from local schools and residents presented their ideas for the area. Sean McMonagle of the NMT chaired the event and Padraigin ni Mhaonaigh of CNP who co-ordinated the initiative outlined the grass roots nature of the consultation and the impressive display of ideas that local people generated.
The mayor re-iterated the need to ensure a bottom-up approach to community development and Conal McFeely followed with a call for local people to get involved in ensuring that change within the area involved the community at its heart.
April sees the beginning of the ‘Tidy Triax’ campaign with local schools, NIHE and DCC all involved in promoting the ‘Tidy Triax’ message. The Department for Social Development, Derry City Council and TRIAX NMT have been working together to reduce litter and increasing recycling within the area.
Over 60 litter bins have been sited within the area and Danielle Doherty of the NMT is working with DCC’s recycling officer in local schools. The Derry Journal have initiated a litter ‘hotline’ .
See Derry Journal.
DSD Minister Margaret Richie visited Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership to view the work completed by students from local primary and secondary schools. The project Central @ 70 was funded through DSD NWDO. The project aims to assist local schoolchildren and residents in visualising what Central Drive in Creggan might look like in the next decade.
Pupils discussed with DSD Minister Ritchie their views on what was needed within the Central Drive area and showed work they had completed.
DRD Minister Conor Murphy visited the TRIAX area on Wednesday 19th September 2007, following an invitation from MLA Martina Anderson. The TRIAX Chairperson , Strategy Manager and the BBI Neighbourhood Management Team met with the Minister to discuss a number of issues. These included
- Greenwalk Lights
- Central Drive Regeneration Scheme
- Lecky Road Flyover
- Ring road/3rd Bridge at Letterkenny Road
- Resident Parking - Bogside/Bishop St.
TRIAX presented the Minister with a brief on the Greenwalk Lights issue and the work of local representatives over 13 years to have it resolved. The Minister gave ’solid commitments’ to address these issues and commented that he was awaiting proposals from NIHE on a solution to the Greenwalk Lights issue.
He spoke with a number of residents who explained the problems that the lack of lighting posed for them.
The Minister expressed the view that any reorientation of Central Drive would have to be on a cross departmental basis.
On the Flyover he agreed that that work should begin on an interim scheme to improve the visual appearance of the Flyover pending the development of a longer term strategy to deal with traffic management within the area. Conor Murphy also met a number of residents from the Lisfannon Park area and listened to their views on ‘resident parking’ schemes proposed for the area.
Gerry Quinn of Creggan Country Park also made a submission to the Minister relating to the adoption of roads within the park and other issues which fall within the remit of DRD.
See also: Derry Journal Article
TRIAX facilitated Brandywell Properties’ (BPL) organisation of a Resident Information Day in the Long Tower Centre on Sunday 7th October 2007. BPL provided a CGI 3D walkthrough of the £13.5m proposed development which residents could view.
Around 70 residents attended over the course of the event. A plan of the development along with a FAQ document was also made available for residents to take away with them.
BBC Radio Foyle covered the meeting as did the Derry News.
The response from the overwhelmingly majority of residents was positive although they again raised concerns about parking. A vox pop by BBC Foyle with residents at the event showed them all to be supportive of the proposal.
Triax are presently involved in developing the action plan. Download action plan here
Discussions are continuing with Derry City Council regarding agreement on a memorandum of understanding with respect to the Foyle Valley site.
Meetings have taken place with DRD Minister Conor Murphy regarding a number of issues within the area. Details elsewhere within the site
