Safer Recruitment Training
What is Safer Recruitment Training?
Safer Recruitment Training in Education is run by our MD and accredited trainer, Katy. Normally run as a face to face course, a virtual course has been released from the Safer Recruitment Consortium which divides the day in to 4 separate modules completed by live webinar.
The course provides recruiting staff members or volunteers, in any educational sector, including primary, secondary and SEN schools, with the skills they need to find suitable applicants (teachers, teaching assistants, non-teachng staff, etc.) to work with children or vulnerable adults.
Who is Safer Recruitment Training for?
An essential course for anyone involved in the recruitment of school staff members including those who work voluntarily. Past attendees have included Business Managers, HR Managers and Directors, Headteachers, Executuve Principals, Deputy Headteachers and Office Managers - the list is endless.
As referenced in Keeping Children Safe in Education, it is required by law that one person on the school's interview panel must be safer recruitment trained.
What does the training cover?
Our Safer Recruitment Training will cover the following topics:
- Safer recruitment in the wider context of safeguarding
- Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers
- How abusers can operate within organisations
- Features of a safer recruitment process
- How to planning a safer recruitment process
- Interview and selection; making the right decisions
- Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
- The importance of an ongoing culture of vigilance
The session is highly interactive and engaging with activies and real-life examples and case studies throughout including that of Ian Huntley.
Why should you do Safer Recruitment Training?
The Bichard Enquiry was clear on the importance of safer recruitment for all education settings, that's why all our consultants are safer recruitment trained.
This course will enable your school to adopt procedures which will help to deter, reject or identify people who may be a danger to children. Thus creating a culture of ongoing vigilance. Without proper training, you risk employing someone who is unsuitable and unintentionally put children at risk. Sadly these individuals can be highly devious therefore training is essential.
This course will give you the confidence to recruit without worry by offering practical ways you can improve your processes, procedures and mindset. The training which lasts for a day, takes you through the entire school recruitment process, from the initial consideration to the interviewing stage and the eventual hiring.
What you will learn from Safer Recruitment Training?
- Be confident in identifying the key features of recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
- Understand how to promote a safer culture and recruiting process within your own school or academy and begin working on a plan to enable it
- How to fully implement the safer recruitment process in your school or academy trust
- The confidence to assess and recruit suitable candidates for your school or academy
Find out more about what you'll learn from training by reading our blog.
When can I do Safer Recruitment Training?
Courses will be run routinely throughout the year and are currently being hosted virtually due to COVID-19. On request we can also run private sessions which are ideal for training your whole school's senior leadership or recruitment team. If you have any questions or would like to know more about our Safer Recruitment Training, please get in touch.
I recently attended the Safer Recruitment course organised by Smile Education, it was an excellent course providing the latest information on changes in legislation. The organisation and delivery of the course were outstanding.
K.S
Smile Education provided first quality up-to-date Safer Recruitment training. Great venue, good hospitality and comprehensive delivery. Allowed me and others to keep up to date with statutory requirements.
Raj Sahota
Fully enjoyed today’s Safer Recruitment with Smile Education! The content was current (literally 4 days old), relevant and delivered at a very high standard. The facilitator was confident, knowledgable and an excellent trainer. I would be happy to attend any training offered by the company again.
Asha Henry
I learnt a lot! It’s made me think about things differently, read more into comments and not take at face value. It’s drove home exactly why we follow the processes that we do. Obviously, it was tough hearing some the stories/examples used. But it was really informative. I would definitely recommend the training. I think anyone who works in the education sector should do this training no matter their position.
Vicky
The training was particularly useful in helping to identify unsuitable applicants. I found online training as practical and informative as I would have in-person. We were able to see and hear the presentation and given the opportunity to ask questions and receive feedback. I will definitely be using the knowledge gained going-forward for every role I recruit for.
Loren
Taking part in safer recruitment training really broaden my understanding of abuse and the signs, which may not be obvious to the untrained eye, to look out for when hiring school staff. While at times the training was tough, I would recommend to others in schools who need to recruit staff.
Elisha
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