28 Practitioner volunteer volunteer roles

The work our HR team delivers is fast-paced, varied and responsive for the two charities within the Group. The team ensures that all staff are comprehensively inducted and are offered development to help staff to do their jobs to their best of their abilities and that the office is a warm, welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone who comes through HBF’s doors. Now that we have moved into our new Trauma Centre as of October 2024, and appointed our first Director of People in November 2024 we are also focussed on ensuring that whole team is supported to work together even more effectively to deliver for our Survivors.

This is an exciting time for a HR Volunteer who will support the Director of People and the Senior Operations and HR Coordinator with the roll-out of the charity’s HR plan and the operationalisation of the interventions beneath it.

Key responsibilities

Project Work

We’ll expect our volunteer to support with one or more the key infrastructure projects:

• Supporting with actions following our staff engagement survey
• Supporting with deploying actions from our EDIB Working Group Action Plan
• Supporting with the introduction of engagement and wellbeing initiatives
• Supporting with the review of our employment policies and contracts to ensure that that we are compliant with employment law legislation

Other tasks and activities

In addition to the above, you will also get the opportunity to support with the day-to-day running of a busy HR function through:

• Ensuring effective onboarding processes for new starters
• Ensuring we are complaint with safer recruitment obligations such as DBS checks  
• Carrying out research tasks as required by the People Coordinator
• Supporting with other administrative HR tasks as required.

Skills and experience needed

• Punctual, reliable and self-motivated with a positive, ’can-do’ attitude;
• Excellent organisational skills and good attention to detail;
• Some experience of administration skills and/or research
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written;
• Experience of working with word processing, database, and spreadsheet computer programs;
• Understanding of, and commitment to, the objectives of the Helen Bamber Foundation;
• A demonstrable empathy for our vulnerable clients, including asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of torture and trafficking;

What you will get out of your time with us

• An understanding of how our staff contribute to the wellbeing of our clients and how the HR team is pivotal to our staff team’s success;
• A better understanding of HR best practice within the not-for-profit sector;
• Practical understanding of usage of administrative skills and developing an ability to balance competing priorities in a work setting;
• Supporting key HR projects at a pivotal time in an organisation’s history;
• Experience of writing engaging communications; and
• Potentially the opportunity to contribute to Board level papers for our Board of Trustees or our People and Governance Committee.