Safer Recruitment Training for Individual Employers of PAs

This training is tailored to Individual Employers employing Personal Assistants to work directly for them.

Topics covered include:

• The legal framework: Regulation 19, Schedule 3, and the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
• Role design and safer advertising: building safeguarding in before the first application lands
• Shortlisting: spotting and exploring risk indicators rather than screening them out silently
• Values-based and behavioural interviewing techniques
• Employment history gaps: how to question them, what to record, and what the Equality Act 2010 requires when you do
• References: requesting them properly, reading what they don’t say, and following up on evasive answers
• DBS checks: the four levels, eligibility, the two barred lists, and the DBS Update Service
• Decision-making: building a recruitment decision that is evidenced and defensible, not just felt right at the time
• Recruitment records: what to hold, for how long, and under what legal basis
• Post-recruitment oversight: induction, supervision and ongoing fitness to practise

Delivery includes:

• Real recruitment case studies
• Scenario-based decision-making around employment gaps, references and interview responses
• Review of your own recruitment documentation and record-keeping against what Regulation 19 expects

All online training will take place via Zoom. If you register for a course, the Zoom link will be emailed to prior to the event.

Training is provided by Surrey Independent Living Charity, funded by NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).