Caseworker

Central & East Berkshire UNISON is currently recruiting a Case Worker to support members in schools, and local government outsourced employers across Slough, Reading, Wokingham and RBWM.
Successful candidates will bring their experience and skills in assisting the Branch in undertaking individual and complex casework. They will be an experienced team player, have good communication and time management skills and the ability to organise their own workload and effectively manage priorities.
They will need to undertake a range of development and casework duties to support our members and activists including often working to tight deadlines and being responsible for updating and maintaining accurate and confidential records.
About this job
The Case Worker position will be on a directly employed basis and report to the Branch Secretary.
The successful candidate should have experience within UNISON or another TU background.
Amongst other duties the role will be to primarily to assist the branch with:
Providing quality representation at disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence meetings and other aspects of membership representation as instructed by the Branch.
Advising members around workplace issues and policies.
Building sustainable union organisation, including through the recruitment of members and the recruitment, training and development of stewards in schools. This will include mentoring and shadowing stewards with casework/preparation and organising/campaigning activity.
The postholder will ultimately be responsible to the Central & East Berks Branch Committee.
In the main the postholder will work within normal operating hours Monday to Thursday 7 hours , however, flexibility around availability of school staff will need to be possible. They will need to travel to schools across Berkshire so it is desirable that the appointed person has their own transport.
To undertake this role you must have good interpersonal and IT skills, excellent administrative and organisational skills and a good understanding and knowledge of employment law and it's relevance to our members. Although the role requires a degree of lone working it will also be essential to keep other members of the branch team updated and good communication is key.
The successful candidate will bring their experience and skills in one-to-one representation, organising and campaigning. To undertake this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate experience and knowledge of the Trade Union movement.
Previous experience of representation, recruitment, organising and campaigning within a TU branch or within a similar organisation is essential.