Career skills and training

Find out what support and training opportunities are available to help you upskill or find a job.

Drop-in support hubs have been setup for all those affected by the TATA transformation.

When?

• Every Thursday 11am - 2pm

Where?

Come along and speak with the following organisations:

• Business Wales
• Careers Wales
• Citizens Advice
• Department for Work and Pensions - DWP
• Neath Port Talbot Council
• NPTC Group of Colleges
• NPT Employability
• Working Wales

NPT Adult Learning in the Community can provide free training courses, such as CV Writing, Interview Skills & Confidence Building to help you to prepare for and find work.

They also offer retraining and upskilling opportunities with courses from entry level, up to level 3.

Personal Learning Accounts provide flexible and fully funded learning to individuals looking to upskill in priority sectors. A Personal Learning Account can help individuals, particularly those facing redundancy, access new employment opportunities in key sectors.

NPT employability

Get help with things such as job searching, CV writing and interview techniques

Find your local job centre

Your local Jobcentre Plus can provide support to help you prepare for, find, and stay in work 

NPTC Group of Colleges have created a range of training opportunities to support Tata employees and the supply chain. These will help if you are deciding to change career, upskill or reskill. 

Support for individuals

Business Wales is the Welsh Government’s bilingual business support service for Welsh micro-businesses and SMEs including social enterprises, and aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages to access the information, advice and support needed to help you start and grow your businesses.

Business Wales can provide support if you are considering self-employment or starting your own business. Our Business advisory team can provide a range of business information and business advice through workshops and one-to-one meetings, to help you review your ideas and prepare business plans, as well as accessing business finance. For more information, please email:  selfemployment@businesswales.org  or call the local Business Wales team on:  01656 868500

Funded by Welsh Government, free courses are available at Heads of the Valleys Training.

The free courses include HGV/LGV driver training, Bus driver training, ADR Dangerous Goods training, Lorry Loader HIAB training and various forklift truck and machinery training courses.

A new fully funded higher level digital skills course for people living or working in Neath Port Talbot to upskill, retrain and gain qualifications. 

The ReAct+ programme can provide a grant of up to £1,500 for vocational training and up to £200 to help with costs associated with training. Additional support for care and childcare costs is also available.

Tap into the support available where you live:

This course aims to help learners acquire skills in Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and machine learning model development. You don't need extensive coding knowledge.

Eligibility

To take part you must:

• be 16 or over
• live or work in Neath Port Talbot

For the latest information, email dtlsn.info@cardiffmet.ac.uk

The Switch on Skills project provides free, online, accredited training courses aimed at achieving Net Zero.

With funding from the Neath Port Talbot Council and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the project, in collaboration and cooperation with industry and academia, delivers a flexible model that utilises:

• advances in online guided learning
• in-person teaching
• practical sessions

Participants can access short micro-credential courses and use these to build qualifications or gain the skills needed for their role, so that the current workforce and businesses remain competitive and a pipeline of talent comes through from schools, Further Education (FE), and Higher Education (HE) institutions.