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Communications Officer/Caseworker for Nickie Aiken MP (Cities of London and Westminster)
Job Description – Communications Officer/Caseworker Location: Westminster Salary: Circa £24,000 Full time (12 months fixed term intial contract) Nickie Aiken MP (Cities of London and Westminster) is looking to recruit a Communications Officer/Caseworker who will be...
Constituency Caseworker for Simon Baynes MP (Clwyd South)
Location: Constituency Office (Ruabon) Salary: IPSA Payscales, starting: £21,529 Job Details Simon Baynes, MP for Clwyd South, is recruiting for a Constituency Caseworker. The role is full time (40 hours) based in the constituency office in Ruabon, but due to the...
Constituency Support Officer for Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Streatham)
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Streatham is looking to hire a full-time Constituency Support Officer for her busy constituency office. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, with sound political judgement and excellent attention to detail. Working in a busy office as...
Constituency Caseworker (Shaun Bailey MP – West Bromwich West)
Shaun Bailey, MP for West Bromwich West, is looking to hire a full-time caseworker for his busy constituency office. Caseworkers play an important role in an MP’s office, supporting the MP to ensure that issues constituents face are heard and actioned. The job is...
Supporting Parliamentary Staff – Caring for Dependants/Home-Schooling
As the Government announce that employers can use the furlough scheme for employees who have caring responsibilities (including those unable to work, or working reduced hours, due to home-schooling or childcare facilites being closed), support is also available to MPs...
Remote Staff Induction
It can be difficult knowing how to best induct new staff remotely. Read our guide with lots of tips; drawing on from years of experience working as a remote Parliamentary team. Remote Staff Induction Guide If you haven't yet hired the new staff you need, do get in...
Caseworker welfare – how the role has changed
As someone who has been around for a while (coming up to 14 years) I have seen first-hand just how much the roles of Parliamentary staff have changed in recent years. Not just in the way the work arrives (the inevitable shift towards digital rather than traditional...
What staff do you need – and what to do if you’ve got it wrong.
It’s very easy, as a new MP, to recruit in a rush. There is an urgent need to ‘hit the ground running’ and the inbox fills up pretty fast. With such a small team, most MPs usually try to recruit someone they have known previously...
Team – How Does it Work for You?
There are infinite blogs and ‘how to’ columns out there on teams and how they work. Many are angled almost entirely at a corporate level; teams who are raising a company’s income, beating a monthly financial high, and all that. But what’s it like in Parliament? The...
Modernising Employment Practice in Parliamentary Offices
I consider myself very lucky to have spent my time in Parliament working in an office that not only abides by modern employment practices but is led by a boss who cares deeply about the happiness and well-being of his staff. By someone who values and understands the...
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