Recruitment process
CONTACT
Send us your completed volunteer application form print
here or fill in online.
We will contact you within 2 working days of receipt of
your form. Please make sure your contact details are filled
out correctly and clearly. If the volunteer co-coordinator
is not available to deal with your inquiry, someone else
will contact you to inform you of this and to advice you
of the next steps.
INTERVIEW
You will be invited to come in for an informal interview,
where you have the chance to find out more about us, and
for us to find out what your interests are. You will also
be given some general information about volunteering with
us, and copies of various policies, such as our volunteering
policy and equal
opportunities policy.
SCREENING
The volunteer coordinator will take up your references
and start a Standard Disclosure process
with the Criminal Records Bureau. This
is standard procedure for both the recruitment of paid
staff and volunteers.
Please note that the Rehabilitation of Offenders
Act 1974 gives you the right not to declare spent
convictions on your application form, except if you intend
to work on a one-to-one basis with vulnerable people,
in which case you are obliged to declare spent convictions
by law.
As a volunteer with us you are very unlikely to be in
one-to-one contact with a vulnerable person, but for reasons
of good practice the River Ocean Foundation will require
all volunteers to undergo a Standard Disclosure process.
This process normally takes 4-6 weeks. In the mean time,
provided your references are acceptable, you can carry
out all volunteer tasks except for those that require
one-to-one contact with a vulnerable person.
If you already had a CRB check done, you can bring it
with you, provided it is less than 6 months old.
Finally, having a conviction will not
necessarily prevent you from becoming a volunteer with
us. You will be informed of the outcome of the Disclosure
process as soon as is possible, and if necessary we will
ask you to come for a second interview. All information
will be treated as confidential and kept in a secure space.
In the unlikely event we do not have an
opportunity available at the time of application, your
name will go on list and you will be contacted as soon
as something comes up that matches your interest.
