Staff recruitment
All organisations that employ adults have a legal responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
Advertising your vacancy: Please see our recruitment and retention webpage for support and advice on how to advertise.
Please also refer to our Safer Recruitment Toolkit for further information and attend Safer Recruitment training.
It is important to have your application pack ready which will include:
- An application form
- Job description
- Person specification
- Shortlisting proforma
- Interview questions
- Reference request template
- Offer/unsuccessful letter
- Contract
- Probation information
For more information, please contact ACAS.
Induction
Qualifications
Your setting must adhere to the welfare requirements in the EYFS in relation to the number of qualified staff that are needed. To count in the ratio of qualified staff, practitioners must have qualifications deemed 'full and relevant'. Use the Department for Education's early years qualifications checker to verfify the validity of qualifications.
Please note: Qualified staff who enter the early years workforce after 30th June 2016 must always have an in date full paediatric first aid certificate for their qualification to continue to be valid
Staff induction
The committee has a responsibility to induct new staff alongside the setting manager (see appendix 7 (PDF, 112 KB) for an example of what to include). Providers must ensure that all staff receive induction training to help them understand their roles and responsibilities.
Induction training must include :
- Information about emergency evacuation procedures
- Safeguarding
- Child protection, and health and safety issues
Providers must support staff to undertake appropriate training and professional development opportunities to ensure they offer quality learning and development experiences for children that continually improves.
