Recruitment and selection procedures

Appendix B

ABRSM has adopted appropriate recruitment and selection procedures* for staff and examiners in the context of safeguarding and child protection and these include the following:

  1. Ensuring that the recruitment and selection policy is up to date.
  2. Ensuring that ABRSM’s commitment to safeguarding is included in all recruitment and selection materials.
  3. Ensuring that we have an up-to-date job/role description and person specification for the role we wish to recruit to.
  4. Ensuring that our methods for attracting candidates e.g. advertising contain all necessary information about the role, timetable for recruitment and our commitment to safeguarding.
  5. Ensuring that we have compiled a suitable candidate information pack containing all the required information about ABRSM, the role, recruitment timetable, safeguarding policy/statement and application form.
  6. Ensuring that each application received is scrutinised in a systematic way by the short listing panel in order to agree the shortlist before sending invitations to interview.
  7. Ensuring that all short listed candidates receive the same invitation to interview, supplying them with all the necessary information.
  8. Ensuring that an interview is conducted for all short listed candidates based on an objective assessment of the candidate’s ability to meet the person specification and job description. For ABRSM employees and examiners this will be a face to face interview.
  9. Ensuring that all specific questions designed to gain required information about each candidate’s suitability have been asked, including those needed to address an gaps in information supplied in the application form.
  10. Ensuring that we are able to make a confident selection of a preferred candidate based upon their demonstration of suitability for the role.
  11. Ensuring that all appropriate checks have been undertaken on the preferred candidate, including references and CRB checks.
  12. Ensuring that the preferred candidate is informed that the offer of employment (including volunteer positions) is conditional on receiving satisfactory information from all necessary checks.

* Based on Recruiting safely (2009), Children’s Workforce Development Council

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