Recruitment and selection

Overview

• Recuitment and selection policies
• Right to work checks
• Immigration
• Probation
• Permanent and long-term staff (longer than 3 months)
• Temporary and casual staff
• Self-employed and consultancy staff
• Research staff
• Apprenticeships
• Disability Confident: Recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition (PDF)

Forms

• Appointment Panel Report Form
• Job description pro forma
• Person specification pro forma
• Recruitment Review Business Case Form 2022/23
• Relocation expenses claim form
• Shortlisting and interview assessment forms are made available to recruiting managers via the Staff HR portal for each recruitment exercise

Recruitment and selection policy

• Introduction and exceptions to external recruitment
• Responsibilities of the People Directorate
• Equality and diversity
• Employment of relatives, and other people who have a close relationship with a current employee
• Data protection and confidentiality
• Complaints
• Policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders
• Guidance for employing young people
• Relocation scheme
• Recruitment process flowchart

Application and shortlisting

• The application process
• Shortlisting candidates

Immigration

• New immigration rules 1 January 2021
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Right to work checks - required for all staff
• Line manager responsibilities
• Graduate visa
• Sponsoring Skilled Workers
• Employing students on Student visas
• Temporary Workers - Government authorised exchange scheme (T5)
• Academic visitors

Type of staff

• Permanent and long-term staff (longer than 3 months)
• Temporary and casual staff
• Self-employed and consultancy staff
• Research staff
• Apprenticeships