SLA12469 - Refugee Support Officer

Job Description

Location: council Offices, Almada Street

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Housing and Technical Resources for Refugee Support Officers. The Refugee Resettlement Team support families who settle in South Lanarkshire as part of Home Office Global Refugee Programmes. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting existing families and new arrivals.

Experience supporting refugees is essential and you must show that you have outstanding communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal, excellent planning and organisational acumen and be very flexible and creative with your time, energy and problem solving abilities. This is not a 9-5 post – often there are early starts and late finishes.

Motivation, energy and empathy are essential in this role and we will be looking for candidates to demonstrate these behaviours within the application form.

Requirements

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.

This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007.

Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children or protected adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made by South Lanarkshire Council.

As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks for example, Identity, Asylum and Immigration and employment history etc.

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Please Apply online

All correspondence will be via your email address registered with myjobscotland.

Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position.

South Lanarkshire Council is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview who meet the minimum requirements for the position.

 

The Individual

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave, enhanced leave.
• Employee Discounts – including discounts at the cinema.
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)