Field Interviewer - Scotland

Are you interested in a role where you have flexibility in your working hours, you get to meet new people from diverse communities and have a positive impact on your local community?, This role will be a mix of visiting sampled addresses to collect household contact information and to encourage them to complete surveys online or over the phone, as well as interviewing respondents in their homes.

We have vacancies in the following locations; Glenrothes / Cupar, Alloa, Fort William / Oban, Edinburgh, Galashiels, Perth; you must select one location preference. Roles are offered in merit order and if the highest scorer and not placed onto a reserve list you will be offered and expected to accept a role in your selected location preference.

You will be home based. You are required to work within a 40 mile radius (approx) of allocated location.Your work will be allocated to ensure that you can travel and complete your work within your contracted hours in this area. Therefore you need to consider how you will be able to achieve this based on your home location in comparison to your chosen location preference. If you are unable to achieve this your offer will be withdrawn.

This role comes with flexible working hours that we hope will meet your needs as well as ours. You will be employed on a 1144 hours annualised contract which is broadly equivalent to 22 hours work per week.

To ensure that we reach respondents, interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 20:00 and there is a potential for admin and travel time outside of these hours.

Interviewers will need to work across mornings, afternoons, and evenings and are contracted to work Monday to Saturday, working on Saturdays if required.

What we are we looking for?

We are looking for individuals who have a friendly, outgoing personality and the confidence to approach and converse with a wide selection of people either via phone or face to face. You will need to have excellent communication skills to be the face of ONS and, where needed, to persuade any reluctant member of the public to take part in our surveys and to be interviewed.

You will also be responsible for planning, organising and managing your own work loads, we will provide full training and support to help you with this., The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business., At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader were committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

On the Civil Service Success Profiles please see level 1 - AA and AO or equivalent.

Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history, skills and experience and personal statement. Your application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.

In your personal statement you are required to answer the question below using up to 250 words.

• Give an example of key skills you would bring that would make you a successful Field Interviewer?


In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e., those scoring the highest.

If your application is successful, you will be invited to attend a video interview lasting between 30 - 45 minutes.

At interview, you will be assessed on your suitability for the role by providing us with evidence in the interview to support what you have included in your application. You should make time to familiarise yourself with the required behaviours before interview and have any questions that you may wish to ask prepared.

As part of the application process you will need to select one location preference. The highest scoring candidate will be offered their location preference. Any further offers will be made in merit order. On some occasions there may be more than one role offered per location.

A reserve list may be held for period of up to 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Candidates should note this is a multi-location campaign and therefore the reserve list is recorded by location in merit order.

Candidates offered a post in any of their preferred locations and who then decline will not be offered any further roles as part of this campaign. Should candidates score the same we will use the lead competency to determine merit order.

If you are applying for more than one currently advertised vacancy as a Field Interviewer, if you are selected to be interviewed, you will only be interviewed for the Field Interviewer role once.

The Sift will be conducted from 03/05/2024

Interviews will be conducted from 27/05/2024

For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals


• nationals of the Republic of Ireland


• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)


• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020


• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  Be able to transport and carry equipment such a laptop and survey materials with you, on occasion walk between addresses and navigate stairs when out in the field.


• Work approximately within 40 miles from the advertised location.


• Interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 20:00. Hours will need to be split evenly across mornings, afternoons, and evenings, with flexibility to work on Saturdays if required.


• Experience of using a laptop and a smartphone.


• To be self-disciplined, self-motivated and happy to work without supervision.


• Have excellent verbal communication skills and enjoy meeting and talking to people., Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service eligibility rules


• Disclosure and Barring Service Check: Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.


• Full valid UK Driving License (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals).


• Full use of a car for work purposes including business use (if offered a post).


• Proof of Identity


• Have a broadband internet connection at your home address prior to taking up an offer of employment


Licences

A Full valid UK Driving License (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals) is required for this post.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing


• Managing a Quality Service


Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technology Ability
  
  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UKs largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.


The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest profession in the Civil Service. ODPs 200,000+ members work in a wide range of operational delivery roles across government, providing essential services that support and protect UK citizens at home and overseas. They help to make ONS a great place to work.

As a member, ODP supports you by providing learning and development opportunities, career pathways, tools and resources to help develop your skills and progress your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join a modern, innovative and inclusive Civil Service profession that sits at the heart of public service delivery.

Alongside your salary of £13,496, Office for National Statistics contributes £3,644 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.