Safer Recruitment Policy & Guidance April 2024 ( Updated September 2024)

Part 2: Safer recruitment procedures

Safer recruitment procedures support the policy aims by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing, and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and/or adults at risk.

Job Profile 

When a post becomes vacant, or a new post is created, the job profile needs to be reviewed to ensure compliance with this policy.

The Job Profile cover should state:

“Safeguarding is everyone's business. All Council employees have a responsibility for protecting children and adults at risk from abuse and neglect and working in a way that promotes and supports their best interests.”

The job profile should clearly state: 

• The safeguarding requirements and responsibilities of the role, such as the extent of contact or responsibility for children and adults at risk. 
• The individual’s responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children and adults at risk they are responsible for or will come into contact with. 
• The requirements needed to perform the role in relation to working with children and adults at risk. 
• The competencies, values, and qualities that the successful candidate should be able to demonstrate  
• The type of DBS check that will be requested for the role (if required) and the justification for requesting this type of DBS check.