A career with Birmingham Rathbone

Our employees assist our service users with the most important issues, and choices in their life. To make our mission statement, "enabling people with learning difficulties to achieve their full potential", a continuing reality, we need to attract the brightest, most creative, talented and committed people to our organisation.

Could you help us with our mission?  We  are always interested to hear from qualified people who share our commitment and would like to work with us.

Birmingham Rathbone's service users have different needs and support requirements, but will find one or more of our services which will help them gain confidence and achieve their goals.

As an employee you may be interested in our Learning, Skills and Employment provision, where you may be in a position to support people to improve their literacy and numeracy, access further education or training, gain nationally recognised qualifications or gain and sustain open employment.  Alternatively you may be interested in working in Birmingham Rathbone's Housing and Supported Living provision, supporting tenants and service users to lead lives that are as independent as possible.

Whatever your interest, we are waiting to hear from you.

Training and Development

Birmingham Rathbone is committed to achieving high quality standards of service provision, to enable people with learning difficulties to achieve their goals and aspirations.  We believe that we will only achieve this aim if we invest in all of our people.  We are therefore proud to continue to be recognised as an Investor in People, providing a framework that supports and encourages staff to improve their performance, through training and development.

Applying

To apply for any or the above vacancies please telephone 0121 684 0202 or Click Here for an application pack.  If you require information to be sent by post, please allow up to five working days .

You receive an application form, job description and person specification, notes for applicants, a covering letter, confirming the position, its location and the closing date. You will also receive Birmingham Rathbone's Mission Statement, equal opportunities monitoring forms and information about the organisation.

The Job Description : lists the purpose of the job, the duties and the responsibilities.

The Person Specification: gives details of the experience, skills and abilities needed to carry out the duties.  Every completed job application form we receive  will be compared against the person specification.  When you completed the application form, you should use examples which demonstrate how you posses the essential experience, skills , abilities and other requirements listed in the person specification.

The Application Form: enables the recruitment panel to decide whether you will be invited to an interview.  The recruitment panel will compare your application for to the person specification.  They will nor make any assumptions but will only recognise experience, skills, abilities and other requirements from the completed application form.

Positive about Disabled People (Two Ticks) Symbol: means that Birmingham Rathbone will interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a position and we will consider applicants with a disability on their ability to do the job.

Equal Opportunities

Birmingham Rathbone employs a rich mix of staff with different experiences, backgrounds, cultures, outlooks and ambitions, as we believe that this leads to better and more flexible services for our service users, we therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

We are totally committed to the principles of equality of opportunity and apply these principles to our recruitment decisions. Our employment decisions are always based on skills, ability, potential and achievements.

We seek to ensure that no job applicant, employee, volunteer, customer or other stakeholder receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, martial status, sexuality, responsibility for dependants, religion, age or trade union activity.

Birmingham Rathbone is committed to a programme of action to ensure this policy is effectively implemented.

Current vacancies are as follows: