Receptionist

Please find attached the following information:

  • Application procedure;
  • Advert;
  • About the United Reformed Church;
  • Job description and Person Specification;
  • Application form; and
  • Equal opportunities monitoring form.

Receptionist

How to apply…

Please read through all the information carefully before beginning your application.

If you then decide you wish to apply for the position then please complete the enclosed application form. You should fill in the form step by step, noting the following points:

  • Make sure the information given is accurate by checking for errors after you have filled in the form.
  • The supporting statement should outline relevant qualifications and experience as they relate to the Person Specification.
  • If you need to use additional sheets for the supporting statement (and elsewhere on the application form) then please do so clearly stating which part of the application form the sheet relates to.
  • Please do not attach a CV as it will not be accepted.

Applications sent by email are preferred; however applications sent by post (marked ‘Confidential’ on the envelope) will also be accepted:

Jasmine Mohammed

Human Resources

The United Reformed Church

86 Tavistock Place

London

WC1H 9RT

Applications need to be received by 12 midday, Monday 20 July 2015.

Short listing will be carried out thereafter and all applicants will be contacted following this.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 30 July 2015.

Those invited to attend an interview will be required to come to Church House,

86 Tavistock Place, London.

We should be grateful if you would complete and return the enclosed Equal Opportunities Monitoring form. Completion is entirely voluntary.

THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH INTERVIEW PROCESS

ONCE WE HAVE RECEIVED APPLICATION FORMS, WE WILL EMAIL AN ACKNOWLEDGEMEMENT.

  1. After the advertised deadline date, all application forms will be processed. Late application forms, however, will not be considered.
  2. The first and last page of the completed application forms will be detached by the HR department and used for monitoring purposes only. This will also apply to the equal opportunities monitoring form, should you choose to submit this.
  3. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the HR department to be notified of interview times and the format of the interview.

NB: Please note that shortlisted applicants must bring with them their proof of eligibility to work in the United Kingdom at the point of interview. Please see attached notes for more details.

  1. Unsuccessful applicants will be contacted by the United Reformed Church in the form of a letter.
  2. Once all interviews have taken place, applicants will be contacted and told of the outcome by phone/letter and a provisional job offer will be made to the successful applicant.

PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY TO WORK IN THE UK TO SATISFY HOME OFFICE UK BORDER & IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS

If you are short listed, then on the day that you are invited in for your interview, you will be asked to provide documents showing proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

The HR department will take a photocopy of these documents. The reasons for this are stated below:

To show proof of your eligibility to reside and work in the United Kingdom (UK), all prospective employees will be asked to provide a document to prove eligibility to work in the UK such as a passport or registration card. The United Reformed Church is legally required to see and take a copy of these documents before employment commences. If proof of eligibility to work in the UK is not confirmed prior to or on the day of commencement of employment, then the prospective employee will not be allowed to commence employment.

Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 came into effect in January 1997. This made it a criminal offence to employ a person subject to immigration control aged 16 or over unless that person has current and valid permission to be in the UK and that permission does not prevent him or her taking the job in question, or the person comes into a category where such employment is otherwise allowed.

With effect from 1 May 2004, the Act was amended to make it harder for people who do not have permission to work in the UK to obtain work by using forged or false documents. As previously, work permits are still required in most cases for nationals of countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). For UK citizens, nationals of other EEA countries and other individuals with a right to live and work in the UK, the only single document which is now acceptable as a defence under the Act is either a current:

  • Passport;
  • National identity card;
  • Registration Card;
  • UK Residence Permit;
  • Other travel documents besides a passport.

However, if you are not any of the following: UK citizens, nationals of other EEA countries and other individuals with a right to live and work in the UK, then you will need to produce a combination of two documents, giving your permanent National Insurance number and name, and evidence of your identity, normally in the form of a full birth certificate (a short birth certificate is not sufficient). In addition, if the names on the two documents are not identical, a third document is required to explain the difference (e.g. a marriage certificate). If the family name or other personal details on the two documents checked do not match then you will be asked to obtain further proof of the reason for any difference between the two documents produced. This should be in the form of a marriage certificate, divorce document, deed poll, adoption certificate or statutory declaration.
We must see two documents in either of the combination lists below to have a defence. It will not provide a defence to see just one document from one combination.

First combination

A - A document giving the person’s permanent National Insurance Number and name. This could be a: P45, P60, National Insurance card, or a letter from a Government agency; and
one of the following documents from (B- H)
B - a birth certificate issued in the UK, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland which specifies the names of the holder's parents; or
C - a birth certificate issued in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland; or
D - a certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British citizen; or
E - a letter issued by the Home Office, to the holder, which indicates that the person named in it has been granted Indefinite Leave to Enter or Remain in the UK; or

F - an Immigration Status Document issued by the Home Office, to the holder, endorsed with a UK Residence, which indicates that the holder has been granted Indefinite Leave to Enter or Remain in the UK; or

G - a letter issued by the Home Office, to the holder, which indicates that the person named in it has subsisting leave to enter or remain in the UK and is entitled to take the employment in the UK; or

H - an Immigration Status Document issued by the Home Office, to the holder, endorsed with a UK Residence Permit, which indicates that the holder has been granted Limited Leave to Enter or Remain in the UK and is entitled to take the employment in question in the UK.
Second combination
A - A work permit or other approval to take employment issued by Work Permits UK; and

one of the following documents from (B-C)
B - a passport or other travel document endorsed to show that the holder has current Leave to Enter, or Remain in the UK and is permitted to take the work permit employment in question; or
C - a letter issued by the Home Office to the holder, confirming that the person named in it is able to stay in the UK and can take the work permit employment in question.