We pride ourselves on providing a seamless recruitment process for anyone who is looking to join the Trust, no matter what the job role, to become part of our successful team. Our process is designed to ensure a quick and easy way to find, apply and, if successful, be offered a job and join us here at the Trust.
Our approach to recruitment
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was formed by the merger of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority in December 2012. The primary role of the DBS is to help employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups including children. You can find out more information on the DBS, its history and its work by visiting the website, www.gov.uk/dbs.
Unfortunately we cannot accept DBS certificates from another organisation, as we need to be the employer running the new DBS check, however if you have a previous one it should speed up the length of time to complete, as the new check we run will be from the date of your last DBS certificate to present day. (We can however use the DBS update service if you have signed up to this. We can your most recent certificate against the update service)
You will be required to bring your DBS certificate which is linked to your update service into the Recruitment Office, in order for your Recruitment Administrator to run an online check.
Other questions
Clearances may be required if records are not up to date and we must comply with NHS Standards and Employment Law. Identification and a new DBS may be required if the level of DBS is not relevant to the job role. A new occupational health clearance may be required if it is a change of job role or department. We only ask for new checks if they are required and this is for the safety of the employee as well as the patients within the hospital.
If you are internal (employed by Somerset partnership or Taunton and Somerset) your current salary will be matched. If you are coming from an external NHS Trust, we will need proof of salary through the most recent NHS pay slip. If you are external to the NHS this is manager’s discretion but is possible through proof of salary from a pay slip and a salary justification form to be completed by the manager and the finance department. We cannot guarantee that your salary will be matched; you should discuss this with your new manager.
You will be able to start once all clearances have been retained, this will be confirmed by an unconditional offer letter sent from the recruitment team. You are not safe to begin employment at the trust without acceptable clearances unless this has been discussed with a member of the recruitment team prior to starting. If you are looking to arrange a start date and are not sure if you have cleared please contact the recruitment team to confirm.
The NHS Employment Check Standards outline the mandatory checks employers must carry out in the appointment, and ongoing employment, of all individuals in the NHS. NHS Employers has developed these standards with the Department of Health and employers in the NHS. The standards include those checks that are required by law, those that are Department of Health (DH) policy and those that are required for access to the NHS Care Record Service. The six areas below make up the NHS Employment Check Standards: 1. Verification of identity checks 2. Right to Work checks 3. Registration and qualification checks 4. Employment history and reference checks 5. Criminal Record checks and Model Declaration Forms 6. Occupational Health checks
What we can offer you
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What we can offer you