Safer Recruitment in Education Training
Adhering to strict safer recruitment processes is an essential component of safeguarding children. Safer recruitment helps to ensure that the people you hire to work in your educational setting are suitable for the role and match up with your expectations, attitudes, and values.
This Safer Recruitment in Education Course provides you with the knowledge to ensure procedures are in place to recruit people who share your commitment to safeguarding children. At the end of this course, you will understand what’s involved in the process from start to finish, looking at compiling recruitment documentation, preparing for and conducting interviews, carrying out pre-appointment checks, and then continuing safer recruitment practices after appointment.
- Developed by a qualified child protection professional
- Accredited by CPD
- Fully online course and assessment with no time limits
- Full audio voiceover
- Approximate duration: 3-4 hours
- On completion, certificate is posted the next working day
Who should take this course?
This course is suitable for anyone who has responsibility for any part of the recruiting, mentoring, or supervising new staff members to work with children and young people. This applies whether you’re hiring full-time, part-time, or voluntary workers.
All professionals have a duty to keep children safe from harm and this begins with following correct safer recruitment procedures. Examples of people who may wish to take this course include:
- Headteachers and Executive Headteachers.
- Members of the school Senior Leadership Team.
- School governors and trustees.
- Middle leaders or heads of department.
- Members of staff with a mentoring role.
- HR staff.
- Administration staff.
If you work with children in a non-educational setting, such as in a sports club or as a childminder, then our Safer Recruitment Training will be more appropriate for your training needs.
Certification
All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
On successful completion of the course you will be sent a quality assured certificate through the post the next working day. This can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit.
This certificate does not have an expiry date. However, based on industry best practice guidelines, the recommended renewal period for this training is 2 years. We will print this recommended renewal date on your certificate.
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Course content
| Module | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Safer Recruitment | The importance of safer recruitment, children most at risk, raising awareness including case examples of Matthew Mowbray, Kandice Barber, Jonathan Clayton, and Ian Huntley, and key guidance. |
| 2 | Compiling Recruitment Documentation | Preparing to recruit, common recruitment mistakes, applicant information packs, job description, person specification, safeguarding statement, self-disclosure forms, selection process outline, application forms and references, and creating a successful job advert. |
| 3 | Prior to Interview | Considering applications, contacting referees, reviewing self-disclosure forms, and preparing for the interview process. |
| 4 | Interviewing Candidates | Before the interviews, conducting the interview, asking questions, question styles, listening actively, causes for concern, and closing the interview. |
| 5 | Pre-Appointment Checks | Pre-appointment checks, eligibility to work in the UK, Section 128 orders, DBS checks, prohibition orders, remaining checks, the Single Central Record, hiring through third parties, and making a conditional offer. |
| 6 | Continuing Safer Recruitment Practices After Appointment | The induction process, code of conduct, monitoring and supervision, maintaining a safe workplace, allegation management, low-level concerns and the case example of Vanessa George. |
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Aims of the course
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand why having strict safer recruitment practices in place is so important in regard to safeguarding children.
- Know how to put together effective applicant documentation, including a job description and safeguarding statement.
- Know what to look for when shortlisting candidates.
- Understand how to contact referees and know what is needed from a reference.
- Know how to put together a panel to conduct the interview and what training the panel members should have.
- Know how to successfully interview candidates.
- Understand what is involved in the pre-appointment checks, including DBS checks, before a candidate can start work.
- Understand how to create a compliant Single Central Record.
- Understand the importance of a thorough staff induction process and safeguarding children training.
- Know how to practically deal with Allegation Management.
Assessment
The online assessment is taken on completion of the training material. You will be asked 20 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 80%. The answers are marked automatically so you will instantly know whether you have passed. If you don't pass don't worry! You can take the test as many times as you need with no extra charge.
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