Census Jobs

ItsMe

Has anybody else applied to be a CCS (Census Coverage Survey) Team Manager? I had my telephone interview on 26th Feb which seemed to go well but I haven't heard a dickie bird since. Supposed to start work 18th April if I get it.

lexilex

Well last Wednesday I was told I was on the reserve list. I completed the online training and sent off my documents the same day.

Just a waiting game now. Really need this job!

katie125_2

ItsMe wrote: »

Has anybody else applied to be a CCS (Census Coverage Survey) Team Manager? I had my telephone interview on 26th Feb which seemed to go well but I haven't heard a dickie bird since. Supposed to start work 18th April if I get it.

would call up the recruitment team ItsMe and find out for sure what is happining with your application.

I applied for CCS Team Manager with interview on 26th Feb too. They contacted me with the usual conditional offer and I did online training last week but it was all very disorganised. I am still waiting for the DVD and printed copy of the instructions I was supposed to read before completing the training but as they only give you 5 days I had to just go ahead and do it anyway which was problematic in itself as I could only access first page of a two page assessment due to a website error which lasted 48hrs.:mad:

I now have been given my classroom training dates for 13-14 April.

I am waiting with bated breath to see how organised the next stages are going to be.

This is my third job application with this census and I have had a very hit and miss experience with previous two applications and I was put on reserve list for both but didn't hear anything despite being asked to complete online training which then never got emailed to me.

I can't quite work out wether it's worth the bother or not.

froggy27_2

I just can't believe so many are on a reserve list as I've been told we're short of collectors... I still haven't got my Early Collector and so far I've only got 3 names to contact to start in 6th April...

NonGeographicalMan

froggy27 wrote: »

Capita is really not delivering and I think ONS is def not impressed with them!!...

Surely if ONS's directors were even vaguely on the ball they should have been well aware from the outset of the kind of bureaucratic and inefficient recruitment operation Capita was likely to run on their behalf.

Clearly the current Capita census contract predates the General Election but I one can only hope that now that Capita has lost its important New Labour ministerial friends that it will get much less business from the government than it has done over the last few years.

Nkemco1986

jacko909090, thanks for your post. I called the employee helpdesk rather than the recruitment helpline and had a message from my co-ordinator within 24 hours as the lady said. Finally sorted.

I_am_mad

Thank you for your replies to my questions it has really helped me. Do we have to put our classroom training and internet training on the pay roll thing, I cant log in until I have started work, is this the same for everyone?

Thanks again

I_am_mad

lvm wrote: »

I work for Scotland's Census so info may not be the same but here's some answers:

If everyone sends back the Census, I would imagine you would be asked to help out another collector however assuming you have a contract, you should still be paid.

I can't imagine that your 12 hours a week job earns so much that you're paying any tax at all so it's unlikely you'll need to pay any tax. If you are above the threshhold it will be 20%, not 40%.

You should be insured for commuting in your car, if you use it for work.

Holiday pay is calculated pro-rata. Can't remember exact figures but legal amount is something like 24 days a year (don't quote me on that number though!)

Training - as far as I'm aware, it's built into the agreed payment (£750 in Scotland) but you can claim travel expenses to the venue.

In Scotland we picked up all equipment at our training session but I've heard that in England you need to arrange to collect from your Co-Ordinator.

Hope that helps!

No my 12 hour job doesnt earn me much at all and I dont pay tax on it as its under but I was thinking that when its added to the 25 hours of census work its nearly a full time job, so I think I will be taxed?

Do we have to do our travel expenses online? Presumably we have to make a note of how many miles we are travelling per day in order to get paid for mileage?

Thanks

froggy27_2

I_am_mad wrote: »

Thank you for your replies to my questions it has really helped me. Do we have to put our classroom training and internet training on the pay roll thing, I cant log in until I have started work, is this the same for everyone?

Thanks again

No you don't put your training on your timesheet it will be paid automatically together with your first wage and you won't be able to log in until you start working.

NonGeographicalMan

I_am_mad wrote: »

Do we have to do our travel expenses online? Presumably we have to make a note of how many miles we are travelling per day in order to get paid for mileage?

You only get paid for any mileage you are asked to drive by the Coordinator as part of your Collection round. You don't get paid for driving from your home to the start of your Collection round even if its on the far side of the area you agreed to take on (which could of course be very large indeed in rural Scotland) as I understand it.

It appears something of a con that they don't seem to consider your home address your place of work so that all mileage once you leave your home is paid but that equally you don't have a designated office address and that the whole Collection area in fact amounts to your office address.

In the area I have applied for the only town rather than village is 9 miles awar but the rural far side of the area is up to 30 miles away!