Recruitment

Whether you are recruiting your first paid employee, adding a new member to your team, or simply recruiting to a vacant position, recruitment is a vital part of any growing organisation. Although the idea may be a simple one, the investment in terms of time and money can be vast. Getting it right first time can be a vital way to save resources, and this guide should serve as a good basis to start your next recruitment campaign: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/how-to-recruitment.pdf

Ensuring you follow correct procedure not only helps clarify working arrangements with employees but also helps you to comply with the law. It could make all the difference in the event of a potentially costly employment tribunal.
http://www.charitybuilderuk.com/page/human-resources/11/ - this is a free site that takes you through, step-by-step all there is to know about recruiting staff and paying staff.

Here are a range of policies you should consider for your employee’s...

• Induction
Many organisations see induction as an optional extra, yet even the simplest induction can head off problems later, and establishing an induction policy will demonstrate your commitment to your staff.  MACC offer some sample policies:
http://www.macc.org.uk/macc/samplepolicies.php - Induction & Training
• Disciplinary & Grievance
CIPD offer some useful advice around handling disciplinary and grievance issues:
http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/emplaw/discipline/disciplingrievprocs.htm?IsSrchRes=1

Safe recruitment

Following the Soham tragedy, Sir Michael Bichard was commissioned by the government to report on child safety, with a focus on inter-agency record keeping, recruitment in schools and employment vetting. The inquiry concluded that schools must pay more attention to issues about safeguarding children when recruiting and appointing staff. It was recommended that head-teachers and school governors should receive training to help strengthen the recruitment process and procedures.

Further recommendations followed that this should be rolled out to the rest of the children and young people's workforce. The government launched the ‘Staying Safe' consultation on 17 July 2007. The  resulting Staying Safe action plan set out proposals for a safe workforce to 'promote safe recruitment practices in all sectors working with children and young people, extending the recent guidance issued to education settings'.

The Children’s Workforce Development Council have developed guidance for the children and young people's workforce on safe recruitment practices, consistent with other safer recruitment guidance and training produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/assets/0000/7158/safer_recruitment_guidance_Nov09.pdf

Performance management

Performance Management is often seen in the voluntary sector as something the Council does, or that sales people do in the commercial sector.  And yet it is a key area of workforce and organisational development that simply aligns the strategy and objectives of organisations, and workers’ and teams’ pathways to achieving them.  There are valuable lessons we can learn from within our own and other sectors.  The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development offers some useful context as well as a performance management tool, while IDeA produces a downloadable document that locates performance management within a public service context.

Supporting, developing & managing volunteers

Manchester has a wealth of expertise on volunteering with organisations like Manchester Youth Volunteering Project, Manchester Event Volunteers and Greater Manchester Youth Network.  Sadly, there is no longer a volunteering bureau,
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/resources/goodpracticebank 

http://www.volunteering.org.uk/resources/EVM/Trustees

Training

Although we have a section dedicated to training here are some tools for your organisation to identify different needs.

• Training Needs Analysis
http://www.skills-thirdsector.org.uk/training_needs_analysis
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/tna

• ICT Needs
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/advice-support/ict/managing-ict/who-should-be-involved-in-ict-planning • Data Collection / Baseline figs
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/strategy-impact/learn/impact/measuring-impact/collecting-data

http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/advice-support/ict/managing-ict/policies-and-procedures



Toolkit Index

1.    Introduction
2.    Developing your Organisation
       a.    Organisation 
       b.    Employees  
       c.    Moving Forward
3.    How to? Guides
4.    Safeguarding
5.    Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
6.    Personal and Professional Development
       a.    Training within the Voluntary Sector
       b.    Training within the Local Authority
       c.    Links to Local Education Establishments
7.    Job Profiles
8.    Glossary