Gloucestershire Professional Services (a subsidiary of Gloucestershire College) is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and any offer of employment will be subject to a number of conditions.
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to complete a self-declaration of your criminal record or any information that would make you unsuitable to work with children. Generally, we are permitted to ask whether an applicant has any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings which would not be filtered in line with current guidance, as defined by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This Order sets out the circumstances in which an individual can be asked about spent convictions (but not protected convictions or protected cautions) and when an employer can consider these. This includes "any employment as a teacher in a school or establishment for further education and any other employment which is carried out wholly or partly within the precincts of a school or establishment for further education, being employment which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons under the age of 18 in attendance at the school or establishment for further education in the course of his normal duties."
As this role involves engaging in “regulated activity” relevant to children, and in line with our legal obligations, before filling out this application you should be aware that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.