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  • JOB APPLICATION

    Please ensure that you read the guidance notes on this form. Curriculum Vitae will not be accepted.

  • Personal Details and Contact Details

  • Entitlement to work in the UK

  • References

    Please provide details of two referees who can comment on your suitability for this job. The referee must be a line manager or supervisor. References from relatives or people who only know you as a friend are not acceptable. If you have not worked previously, then please give details of a school/college/university official.  If you do not want us to contact a referee prior to interview then please tick the relevant box and attach a separate sheet with this form explaining why.

  • Referee 1 (current or most recent employer)

  • Referee 2

  • Current Employment (or last employment if not currently employed)

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  • Previous Employment

  • Gaps in Employment

    Please indicate and explain any gaps in employment since first leaving secondary education.  Include specific dates and be sure to account for all gaps, whatever their length. Continue on another sheet if necessary.

  • Education

    If the job requires a particular qualification, you will be asked to produce original evidence at your interview if shortlisted.

  • Other training and development (including professional, vocational or job related training)

  • Membership of Professional Associations

  • Supporting Information (Reasons for applying for this job)

  • Additional Information

  • Convictions/Disqualifications

  • YCSW is committed to making appointments on merit and will focus on a person’s abilities, skills and experience.   When considering any criminal convictions YCSW will consider the relevance of the conviction(s) to the job.   A criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position.   Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a conviction will become spent after a set period of time – see guidance notes for details.

    If you are working with vulnerable adults, children and young people the post is exempt under the Act and you are required to give details of all convictions, cautions including spent convictions

  • If yes, please give details on a separate sheet and attach it to this form in a sealed envelope marked Confidential Disclosure

  • Privacy notice

  • Click here to download our privacy notice for job applicants.

  • A  Enhanced DBS Check:

  • If yes, please give details on a separate sheet and attach it to this form in a sealed envelope marked Confidential Disclosure

  • This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check so that any criminal background (including “spent convictions, bind-over orders or cautions) is disclosed to YCSW. YCSW cannot employ someone to this post without this check. If you are successful in applying for this post we will ask the DBS for a Disclosure.

    The position for which you are applying involves contact with vulnerable groups. It is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all subsequent amendments (England and Wales). For this position you are not entitled to withhold information about police cautions, bind-overs, or any criminal convictions that would otherwise have been considered “spent” under the Act.

  • B  Safeguarding Declaration

  • I declare that the information I have given on this form is complete and accurate and that:

    • I am not barred or disqualified from working with vulnerable groups, children or young people
    • I am not subject to any sanctions or conditions on my employment imposed by the Disclosure and Barring Service, Secretary of State or other regulatory body.
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  • General Declaration

  • I understand that to knowingly give false information or to leave out any relevant information could result in:

    • the withdrawal of any offer of appointment, or my dismissal at any time in the future, and possible criminal prosecution
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  • Data Protection

    Data Protection accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.  Youth Connect will only use the information given on this application form to determine your suitability for this job and to monitor equal opportunities.  We will keep application forms of unsuccessful candidates for six months before being destroyed.

  • Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

    All applicants are asked to complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form overleaf. Please note – this sheet will be removed from your application form before shortlisting and we will only use it to help us monitor equal opportunities.

  • Why are we monitoring?

    Youth Connect South West has adopted recruitment procedures which are intended to ensure that equality of opportunity exists for all job applicants and that appointments are made on merit.   Monitoring is an essential part of tackling inequality and discrimination and, if done effectively, will help us check whether our policies, services and organisation culture support our aims as an equal opportunities employer.

    Equality monitoring is the process of gathering and analysing data on the equality strands. The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form will ask for information on your age, sex, ethnic origin/nationality, sexual orientation, religion and disability.

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  • White

    01 British

    02 Irish

    19 Other white

     

    Asian

    41 Indian or British Indian

    42 Pakistani, British Pakistani

    43 Bangladeshi, Britsih Bangladeshi

    44 Other Asian, British Asian

     

    Other

    81 Chinese

    85 Any other

  • Mixed

    21 Black and White Caribbean

    22 Black and White African

    27 Chinese and White

    28 Any other mixed background

     

    Black

    61 Caribbean

    62 African

    63 Other Black or Black British

     

    99 Prefer not to say

  • Disability

    The Disability Discrimination Act defines disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on his/her ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
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