Cook (North Halifax)

The position you have applied for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore North Halifax Partnership Ltd will undertake to use the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). For some posts, the information required, will include details of cautions, reprimands, or final warnings as well as convictions. Whereby a Disclosure is to form part of the recruitment process applicants are encouraged to provide details of their criminal record at any part of the process. All information will be kept confidential and only disclosed to those parties relevant to the recruitment process. The disclosure of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent your employment with us; in making a decision, we will consider many factors relevant to the appointment. This means that you must provide information about all previous convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings including those, which, in other circumstances, would be thought of as spent. Failure to disclose relevant information could lead to North Halifax Partnership Ltd withdrawing the offer of employment.

For successful applicants:
North Halifax Partnership (NHP) is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act and it takes its responsibilities under the act very seriously. The information provided by you in this form is collected to ensure NHP can fulfil its legal obligations to you as employer, and for the performance of the contract of your employment with NHP. Moreover, completion of this form constitutes explicit consent from you to us to process your personal data given on this form. You have the right to see what information is held about you, to have any inaccurate information corrected, and to have information removed from our system unless we are required by law or a statutory purpose to keep it.
If you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law, you have the right to complain to North Halifax Partnership’s Data Protection Officer, Diane Coenen who can be contacted on Diane.coenen@nhpltd.org.uk.

Your data will be shared with colleagues within the Partnership where it is necessary for them to undertake their duties with regard to recruitment. This includes, for example, the HR department, those in the department where the vacancy is who responsible for screening your application and interviewing you. Your data will be shared with third parties if you are successful in your job application. In these circumstances, we will share your data in order to obtain references and DBS check as part of the recruitment process.


For unsuccessful applicants:
If your application is not successful, we will keep your application on file for a period of 6 months in line with our retention of records working practice.

I declare that the information on this form is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

· I understand that providing misleading or false information will disqualify me from appointment or may lead to me being dismissed if appointed to the role.

· My name has not been placed on any list which disqualifies me from working with children.

· I confirm that I have read the above statements in respect of “Disclosure of Criminal Records/Sanctions” and understand the requirements of this position.

· By signing this form I consent to North Halifax Partnerships to contact my referees to support my application.