Branch Officer Training
Once again this year we are planning to hold
most of the training over one weekend in Glasgow. This residential
event involves getting together on Friday night and breaking
into course groups on Saturday morning before going home
after lunch on Sunday,with opportunities throughout the
weekend for the Branch Officers to come together. The courses
are aimed at newly elected Officers or those who want to
understandmore about a particular role. Itmay also be useful
for those who have not done training for a while as materials
are updated and they can share their experience with those
who are new. The courses look at roles, responsibilities
and best practice for each post.
BRANCH SECRETARIES: A number of training
opportunities are available as part of UNISON’s national
leadership programme. For this weekend we will be running
the general overall introduction to being a Branch Secretary
and we will also discuss planning for the future.
BRANCH CHAIRPERSONS This course covers
the practical skills necessary to chair meetings and deals
with procedural issues on motions and amendments. It will
also assist to build confidence as a leader in the Branch.
BRANCH TREASURERS This is a practical
course explaining UNISON’s financial systems and associated
procedures and processes and how to prepare budgets, keep
accounts and produce annual returns.
BRANCH EDUCATION COORDINATORS This course
explains the various training opportunities and the ways
they can be brought together to meet the needs of Branches
and individual stewards. It looks at producing a Branch
education plan. It covers buddying and mentoring at Branch
level and maintenance of training records for ERA purposes.
LIFELONG LEARNING COORDINATORS This role
differs from the Education Coordinator in that the latter
is focussing on the training needs of activists. The Lifelong
Learning Coordinator role is more focussed on member training
and coordinating thework of Union Learning Representatives
in the Branch. The course offers assistance in identifying
these issues and looks at recruitment around learning initiatives.
EQUALITY OFFICERS This course shows how
to build equality issues into the bargaining agenda, how
to recruit and co-ordinate equality representatives and
how to promote equality issues. Please note – the ERA reaccreditation
course covers the Public Sector Equality duties and the
Equality reps course covers Equalities Impact Assessments.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICERS This course is
for all those who deal with Branch communications including
magazine and newsletter editors,website managers etc. It
is the introduction to the Getting the Message Across campaign
which includes courses on campaigning, newsletter production,
media handling, website development etc. The course will
introduce these various elements and will focus on organising
to present a positive image for the Branch. It will provide
the basic skills to get you started and will be built on
by specialist courses later in the year.
HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICERS This is different
from the health and safety representatives course in that
it does not focus on dealing with individual workplace issues
but instead aims to show how to coordinate the work of the
various H&S reps and pursue health & safety issues through
the bargaining agenda. It also covers the general promotion
of health and safety issues.
Other UNISON Branch Officer Training Courses
INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS This is a course
usually run in London for Branches from across the UK.
BRANCH WELFARE OFFICERS This is a 2 stage
course run nationally across Regions. Full details at UNISON
website http://www.unison.org.uk/welfare/BWOtraining.asp.
The Welfare Committee are keen to try to run a course in
Scotland and if we can organise that we will let Branches
know.
MEMBERSHIP OFFICERS In some Branches
this post exists solely to updatemembership records and
specific courses are run by our RMS department to cover
this. In others it deals more with recruitment events and
recruitment techniques are covered in our stewards courses.
If a Branch identifies demand for recruitment training this
can run at local level usually as part of a branch development
event.
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