Job Broker Rass Volunteers - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire County Council
Description
Job Broker RASS Volunteers:
- Date: 22 Apr 2024
- Job Location: GloucesterThis is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Job Broker RASS Volunteers (Refugees & Ayslum Seekers)
- Job Location: Gloucestershire Employment and Skills Hub
- Salary: £27,803 £30,296 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: Until 31/12/2024
Job Requisition Number: 8870
- This post is not open to job share
About The Team & Role
Gloucestershire Employment and Skills Hub provides a central source of information and support for residents and businesses.
The aim is to help residents access learning and work opportunities, as well help employers get the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles.
We are a team of dedicated professionals who thrive on helping people to achieve their learning and employment aspirations.
The Job Broker role is to provide support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (RASS) to secure voluntary work opportunities with the longer-term aim of progression into paid work.
The postholder will help individuals, through the development of a range of partnerships, identify potential job goals and encourage development through participation in a range of initiatives and services including work experience and learning opportunities leading to volunteering outcomes.
About You
You must have excellent communication skills which will allow for you to develop a range of close links with partnership organisations.
You will have experience managing, supporting or placing volunteers in organisations and working with refugees or asylum seekers, achieving performance outcomes with an innovative and creative approach.
Your knowledge and skills will include language skills or the ability to use translation apps and tools, knowledge of volunteer employment policies, procedures and welfare services and an awareness of recruitment and selection processes used by employers which may present challenges for refugees.
About Us
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Discounts at a number of major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision and informal support
- Access to mandatory training
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
How to apply
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:
- Job Broker Volunteering (Asylum Seekers & Refugees)
- Job Profile
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities.
Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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