Step 1: Job & Personal Details

Please provide your basic information and job details.

Job Details

Personal Details

Step 2: Education & Professional Development

Please provide details of your education, qualifications, and professional development.

Education and Qualifications

From the age of eleven onwards

Membership of Professional Bodies

Training

Please include government training schemes, apprenticeships, short courses, projects, trade and professional training.

Step 3: Employment History

Please provide details of your current and previous employment.

Details of Present/Most Recent Employment

Employment Prior to Most Recent Employment

Record all posts you have held starting with the most recent, including any vocational work and service with HM Forces. If there are any gaps in your employment dates, please tell us what you were doing during the timeframe of the gap.

Step 4: Additional Experience & Interests

Please provide details of your voluntary work, other experience, and interests.

Voluntary Work

Include all voluntary work prior to and after leaving school.

Other Experience

Please describe time spent since leaving full-time education. Full details of any period not accounted for by full or part-time employment should be given.

Other Interests

These include leisure activities, hobbies, public duties, or private business work. Please list any achievements.

Step 5: Supporting Information & References

Please provide supporting information for your application and reference details.

Information in Support of Your Application

Please mention any specific skills, experience, and achievements you can offer which meet the requirements of the job description and person specification. These skills/experience/achievements may have been gained in your current or previous employment, education, training, domestic activities, voluntary work, leisure interests etc.

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Written Exercise

Please indicate, using approximately 1,000 words, what attitudes, personal characteristics, and skills you consider important to an effective employee in a children's residential care setting. State clearly, what you consider to be the essential needs of children. Please note that written exercises form an important part of the selection process and will be discussed at the interview.

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References

Please state the names and addresses of two people we can contact for references. One must be your current or most recent employer. In the absence of previous employment, you must provide a reference from your last place of full-time education. Please note that your reference must not be a relative.

Reference 1 *

Reference 2 *

Step 6: Background Checks & Declaration

Please complete the background check information and final declaration.

Health

A separate health declaration will be sent separately if your employment application is successful.

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act

Disciplinary

Please list any employment disciplinary offences and the disciplinary action you have received.

Declaration

I understand that the organisation will treat the information in this application form as confidential.

To the best of my knowledge, I declare that the above statements are true. I understand that giving any deliberate, false, or misleading information in this application may render me liable to dismissal if engaged.

Important Notes:

  • Please ensure all required fields are completed before submission
  • Curriculum Vitae will not be accepted
  • Applications received after the closing date will not be considered
  • We will only send a Health Declaration to applicants offered employment
  • This position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure