Safer Recruitment Course

This Safer Recruitment course is for people involved in recruiting, hiring, or supervising staff, who want to ensure safe and effective recruitment practices that protect children and young people.

The purpose of this course is to support learners to identify, deter and reject people who are at risk of abusing the people they support. It is a guide to make good recruitment decisions, taking into account procedures and checks to provide a robust recruitment process to meet legislative requirements and best practice that is focused on the safety of children and vulnerable people. It will help learners to understand the risks to vulnerable people when the wrong people are employed.

Looking at the whole recruitment process from start to finish beginning with designing and describing the job role to get the right applicants for the role. Guiding learners through what to do to ensure compliance with legislation and what documentation is required to evidence so that learners have not acted in a discriminatory way. Providing practical interview questions and techniques as well as employment checks.

This Safer Recruitment course will cover:

• Why safer recruitment is important
• Recruitment planning
• Job descriptions and person specifications
• Finding applicants
• Shortlisting applicants for interview
• Preparing to interview
• Interview screening and selection
• Pre-employment checks
• Making a job offer and employment contracts
• Induction, training, observation and supervision
• Key legislation and guidance
• Recruitment policies and procedures
• Avoiding common recruitment mistakes
• Managing allegations

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand why safer recruitment matters.
• Learn to plan and shortlist candidates.
• Develop interviewing and selection skills.
• Know pre-employment checks and induction. · Understand key legislation and policies.

This Safer Recruitment course has been designed specifically for people who works in social care or residential childcare.