Volunteer Application form

All posts involving direct contact with children and adults at risk are exempt from the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website or at unlock.org.uk. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all spent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

Where candidates have been shortlisted, we will carry out online checks to determine if there are any concerns that would make the candidate unsuitable to work with children and adults at risk. For posts at the college campus a check of the barred list for children will be carried out. For posts providing personal care to adults at risk, a check of the barred list for adults will be carried out. Any offer of appointment will be subject to right to work, enhanced DBS check, satisfactory medical check and references. Where candidates have resided outside the UK an additional police check from that country may be required.

Information from this application may be processed for purposes registered by the Employer under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998.

By submitting this form, I give my consent to InFocus processing the data supplied in this application form for the purpose of recruitment and selection. I declare that the information given in this application is to the best of my knowledge complete and correct.