Category: job
Future Jobs Fund Admin Assistant Placement at GHT
posted: 05/01/2011
George House Trust is launching a Future Jobs Fund Placement for an Administrative Assistant, to start in February 2011.
The placement will involve providing administrative support to our Volunteer & Development Manager and helping with administration for training and events.
This is an exciting role which will offer you:
- An insight into a career in the voluntary sector or in volunteer management
- Opportunities to develop skills and experience in volunteer management, training administration and event organisation
- The chance to work as part of the leading HIV Social Care Charity in the North West with a national reputation for excellence.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person who is interested in making a real difference to the lives of people living with and affected by HIV.
To be eligible to apply, applicants must be aged 18-24 and have been claiming Job Seekers Allowance for at least 6 months. This role is paid at the National Minimum Wage.
If you are interested in this role, please speak to your Job Centre Plus Advisor as soon as possible, quoting Future Jobs Fund reference: MS MAN 9192. Interviews will be held on Friday 14th January 2011.
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Barnardo's Anti-Trafficking Job
posted: 08/10/2010
Barnardo's Gregory’s Place, a George House Trust partner organisation, are looking for a full-time Anti Trafficking Project Worker.
- Project Worker 2 - Anti Trafficking
- Job Ref: NW264
- Area(s): North West England
- Based: Gregory's Place, 69 Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FX
- Full Time: 37 hours per week hours per week
- Temporary: March 2012
- Salary: £22221 - £28636 p.a.
Barnardo’s Gregory’s Place provides a wide range of support to refugee and asylum seeking families across Greater Manchester. They want a full time Project Worker for their Anti-Trafficking Project to work until the end of March 2012.
The successful candidate will work directly with young people in Manchester who have been trafficked from abroad or who are at risk of trafficking; they will play a key role in development of the service, working closely with partnership agencies to achieve project aims.
Diplomas and experience
Barnardo’s welcome applications from people with a Diploma in Youth Work, Social Work, Teaching or equivalent, or with relevant experience of working with children & young people and families (especially those from black and ethnic minority communities). People should also have experience of multi-agency working within a voluntary or statutory setting, and experience of individual or group work with children, young people or families.
Working hours are 37 hours Monday to Friday. Normally working hours are 9.00am - 5.00pm and there will be some need to work outside these hours.
The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure with the Criminal Records Bureau. They welcome applications from people with a black, Asian or other minority ethnic background, to address current under-representation.
How to apply and Job Pack
Closing Date: 05/11/2010
Interview Date: 17th November 2010
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Job restrictions for asylum seekers?
posted: 30/07/2010
UPDATED 23 August
New Immigration Rules following the Supreme Court's decision will begin on 9 September and updated guidance has been produced by the UKBA
After the Supreme Court decision we reported yesterday allowing some 'legacy case' asylum seekers to apply for permissiion to work, Home Office ministers are now trying to limit the jobs these 45,000 asylum seekers could take.
The immigration minister, Damian Green, wants to stop asylum seekers from taking most jobs and restrict them to types of work where the government has said there are official shortages.
Home Office officials are investigating the possibility of telling asylum seekers they can apply only for vacancies among 400,000 skilled jobs in shortage occupations – a tiny fraction of almost 30 million jobs in the UK economy.
Some teaching, engineering, welding, dancing jobs only
Asylum seekers would have to be qualified maths teachers, chemical engineers, high-integrity pipe welders, experienced orchestral musicians, or ballet dancers or have other unusual skills to have any hope of being given permission to work. The jobs are the same as the types of jobs open to migrants from outside Europe wanting to work in the UK under the new points-based immigration system.
This week's supreme court ruling said refused asylum seekers who made a second fresh claim for refugee status should be allowed to work if they had waited more than 12 months for a UKBA decision.
The Supreme Court ruling applies a EU directive which set minimum standards for how asylum seekers are treated throughout Europe, so asylum seekers are treated with basic dignity. The Supreme Court rejected the home secretary's case that this group of asylum seekers should not have this protection because their first application had been rejected.
10 years of 'right to work' campaigning
Refugee welfare groups have been fighting for more than 10 years to lift the ban on asylum seekers being allowed to work in Britain while their applications are decided. This is the first time the courts have backed the principle.
Immigration barristers say the ruling will mean that tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers whose fresh applications are grinding their way through the system will be entitled to basic rights, including the right to work. The court said any problem with undeserving cases should be dealt with by deciding them quickly rather than by punishing them by depriving them of their fundamental rights.
45,000 of the ‘legacy cases’
The Home Office says that up to 45,000 refused asylum seekers are likely to be affected by the ruling. Many of them are among the 450,000 "legacy cases", some dating back more than 10 years, which the Home Office is working through in a backlog exercise.
Immigration minister Green confirmed his intention to severely restrict the jobs open to asylum seekers who have waited more than a year for a decision. He said: "I believe it is important to maintain a distinction between economic migration and asylum – giving failed asylum seekers access to the labour market undermines this principle." He claimed the ruling would have only a short-term effect as "the long delays in the asylum system will be resolved by the summer of next year when all the older asylum cases are concluded".
Disbelief at plan to clear 450,000 backlog within 12 months
It is hard to see how all these legacy cases can possibly be decided by next summer. The private company Serco has just lost its £15m contract with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) which was to help clear the huge backlog in legacy asylum claims, amid allegations that the system is in complete chaos.
Serco was given the contract last year to speed up clerical work and help caseworkers clear the backlog of 450,000 asylum cases. Many of the cases date from the mid-1990s. The plan was that with Serco's help the entire backlog would be dealt with by 2012. But complaints started to come in almost immediately that Serco’s work was slowing the system down. According to one insider, there were too many inaccuracies and omissions by Serco.
UKBA staff have now been told that the work is to be returned to UKBA civil servants. So far, it seems, only about 200,000 legacy cases have been dealt with and the system remains in chaos. At the same time as the announcement that the work is being taken back by UKBA, a leaked memo from the coalition government reveals plans to axe 7,000 UK Border Agency jobs - 1,700 this financial year. How the UKBA will be able to deal with new asylum cases, not to mention the scandalous backlog, with a third fewer staff, remains to be seen.
Home Office job restrictions plan ‘disappointing’
Jonathan Ellis, director of policy and development at the Refugee Council, said the Home Office's response to the ruling was "disappointing". "The supreme court ruled that this group of asylum seekers has the right to work under EU law – the government should not then limit this right down to a small number of asylum seekers who meet the requirements for national shortage occupations."
"The shortage occupation list is not designed for asylum seekers but rather economic migrants needing sponsorship to come to the UK. Asylum seekers who have waited so long for a decision should be allowed to work for local employers whenever their skills are needed."
Source
with additional material about Serco from Private Eye 1267, 23rd July – 5th August 2010
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HIV Scotland Jobs
posted: 28/06/2010
HIV Scotland, in Edinburgh, has two HIV job vacancies. HIV Scotland is the national HIV organisation for Scotland. It does not provide services directly to people with HIV, but instead works with the Scottish government, HIV organisations and others to improve the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV and affected communities, and to prevent the spread of HIV.
The two jobs are
- Senior Policy Officer
- Learning Development Officer
Both are based in Edinburgh and are full time.
They want experienced specialists to give high quality advice and expertise to policy makers, professionals and agencies at all levels to promote standards, effective interventions and co-ordination in HIV.
They want a Senior Policy Officer who has a strong understanding of Scottish Government and Parliamentary structures, has up to date knowledge of HIV related policy, and a track-record in achieving change.
They want the Learning Development Officer with experience of communicating knowledge and of supporting standards, evidence-informed practice, and innovation, to diverse public and professional audiences.
Job Application Packs
Closing date for job applications is 19th July.
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Work with Boaz on Asylum
posted: 11/06/2010
Boaz Trust is looking for two paid workers. Boaz Trust works with destitute asylum seekers in the Manchester area. They aim to provide accommodation for those who are homeless, along with food and other essentials. They also provide individual advocacy and support, and campaign for justice in asylum legislation as a Christian charity.
Boaz Trust works closely with George House Trust and provide invaluable help when there are almost no other solutions available.
They want to recruit a full-time service manager, who will manage their day-to-day work, and a part-time fundraising and communications officer.
The closing date for both jobs is Friday 9th July. Full details and application forms on their website.
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