Resettlement Coordinator

5 months ago


Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

**How you'll make a difference**:
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The Service for Resettling Communities is responsible for the local delivery of national humanitarian resettlement programmes including the UK Resettlement Scheme, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) Programme and work with Asylum Seekers.

Through developing strong partnership work with various agencies, services and communities, you will organise support systems and services to facilitate resettlement and integration processes.

**What will you be doing?**
- You will design, coordinate, and deliver activities aimed at supporting individuals arriving in South Gloucestershire under various humanitarian programmes.
- It will be your responsibility to deliver several small integration projects or support a particular resettlement programme such as Afghan or Hong Kong resettlement schemes.
- You will maintain regular contact with all relevant teams and services to ensure that all needs of the resettling cohorts are met and service user queries are resolved, providing clear and accurate advice.
- To help improve service requirement, you will undertake research where necessary.

**What we need from you**:
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- You must have well-developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills with the ability to analyse, prioritise and organise workload to meet deadlines.
- You should have an awareness of safeguarding.
- You will have excellent report writing skills.
- It is preferred, but not essential, that you are fluent in an additional language such as Ukrainian or Cantonese.

Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:
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- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine
- **flexibility **to help them achieve that
- **work/life balance**.- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our
- **training and development** offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.- As part of our benefits package you will receive
- **generous annual leave** (pro rata), employee
- **wellbeing support** and you will have access to a range of
- **staff discounts**, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities- We recognise that ourOur teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re** making a difference, be part of it**- This is a limited term contract until March 2024**Salary From**:

- £32,020

**Salary To**:

- £34,723

**Hours per week**:

- 37

**Vacancy type**:

- LTC

**Location**:

- Yate

**Team**:

- Procurement, Commissioning and Contracts

**Advertising End Date**:

- 23 Jul 2023