Safer Recruitment and Collaborative Selection

This week’s topics

Safer Recruitment and Collaborative Selection

1. Statutory employment law and regulatory standards
2. Findings from serious case reviews and inquiries
3. Designing values-based person specifications
4. Involving service users and multidisciplinary stakeholders
5. Recruitment: Employee Selection Process
6. Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management?

What you will be able to do

• 5.1 Explain the impact of legislative and regulatory requirements on recruitment and selection processes in health and social care settings.
• 5.2 Analyse how serious case reviews and inquiries have contributed to the establishment of policies and procedures within recruitment which are necessary to safeguard vulnerable people.
• 5.3 Explain how to establish the criteria that will be used in the recruitment and selection process.
• 5.4 Describe how to involve others in the recruitment process.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the impact of legislative and regulatory requirements on recruitment and selection processes in health and social care settings.

Study materials

Videos

• Recruitment: Employee Selection Process · YouTube · Galton College · 20 min · for registered students
• Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management? · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 16 min · for registered students
• Selection Process: Selection Criteria · YouTube · Galton College · 23 min · for registered students

Further resources

• DBS checks: detailed guidance (Disclosure and Barring Service) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
• Transforming care: a national response to Winterbourne View Hospital (DH, 2012) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
• The Cavendish Review: healthcare assistants and support workers in NHS and social care (2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students