Safe Recruitment for Employers and Managers
Safe recruitment is essential for protecting vulnerable individuals in your care. This course provides practical guidance for employers and managers on how to safely and effectively recruit staff in line with safeguarding responsibilities.
Recruiting the right person is about more than just filling a vacancy — it’s about ensuring that your hiring practices reduce the risk of harm, abuse, and neglect. This training explores the full recruitment process, from job adverts and shortlisting through to interview techniques, background checks, and post-employment safeguarding.
Whether you’re recruiting for regulated activity roles or working with adults and children in health, education, care or voluntary sectors, this course will help you apply safer recruitment principles in line with current legislation and best practice.
What You Will Learn
By the end of the training, you will be able to:
- Understand the purpose and principles of safer recruitment in safeguarding contexts
- Identify the key stages in a safe recruitment process, including planning, advertising, and shortlisting
- Recognise the signs of unsafe or unsuitable applicants
- Conduct structured interviews using safeguarding-focused questions
- Carry out pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, references, identity, and eligibility to work
- Apply DBS filtering rules and risk assessment practices for returned information
- Promote equality and avoid discrimination while maintaining high safeguarding standards
- Evaluate and strengthen your organisation’s recruitment policies and procedures
- Ensure ongoing vigilance through induction, supervision, and training
Certification
Successful candidates will receive a Certificate of Achievement to demonstrate their understanding of safer recruitment procedures.
