We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use that data and to meeting our data protection obligations.
We collect a range of information about you. This includes:
We also ask you to provide the contact details of two referees whom we will contact to obtain references for you. We assume that you have obtained their consent to give their details to us. For some roles we may contact the referees only for the successful candidate after interview, but for all teaching roles and many support roles, we will contact the referees for all shortlisted candidates before the interviews take place, in accordance with the guidelines on Safer Recruitment.
Information which is mandatory for you to provide is marked with an *. If you choose not to provide this information, you will not be able to submit the application form or be considered for the role.
If you are shortlisted for interview, we will ask you to bring your passport or other identity documents providing proof of your entitlement to work in the UK, your full birth certificate, photo identification, a utility or council tax bill and any professional qualification certificates. We will take a copy of these documents to keep on your application record.
Further personal data will be collected through interviews or other forms of assessment.
With the exception of your nominated referees for references for certain roles as detailed above, we will seek information from third parties only once a job offer to you has been made, such as from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) or from former employers.
Application data will be stored in a range of different places, as appropriate, including on our HR management systems and on other IT systems (including email).
We need to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into an employment contract with you. We may also need to process your data to enter into a contract with you. In some cases, we need to process data to ensure that we are complying with our legal obligations. For example, it is mandatory to check a successful applicant's eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts and, for all roles at the Foundation, to complete DBS checks on all candidates who are offered employment.
The Foundation has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows us to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. We may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
We will collect information about whether or not applicants are disabled so that we can make reasonable adjustments for candidates who have a disability. We process such information to carry out our legal obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process and managers in the business area with a vacancy.
With the exception of your nominated referees for references for certain roles as detailed above, we will not share your data with third parties, unless we make you a conditional offer of employment. We will then share your data with certain third parties in order to comply with our legal obligations. These legal obligations include contacting former employers to obtain references for you if not completed beforehand, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks, the Disclosure & Barring Service and the Teaching Regulation Agency.
Successful candidates will also be asked to complete a confidential medical questionnaire, which will be sent by the candidate directly to the Foundation’s Occupational Health Service (Oh Occupational Health & Wellbeing) for assessment. Information about a disability or medical condition will only be reported to us in general terms of the candidate's ability to perform the job. This will allow any health and safety risk to be assessed and reasonable adjustment considered. The candidate’s permission will be sought by Oh Occupational Health & Wellbeing before sharing any other medical information with us.
We take the security of your data seriously. We have internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by those employees who require access to it in the proper performance of their duties.
If your application is unsuccessful, or you choose not to accept any offer of employment we make, your personal data will be kept for six months after the end of the relevant recruitment stage, after which it will be automatically destroyed. You are free to ask us to delete your data at any time.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your Personnel File (which will be stored electronically on the Foundation’s management information systems) and retained during your employment with the Foundation. The periods for which your data will be held, together with further information about how the Foundation collects and uses your personal information, will be provided to you in a staff privacy notice.
As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact recruitment@stephenperse.com.
If you believe that we have not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) although the ICO recommends that steps are taken to resolve the matter with us before involving them.
You are under no obligation to provide personal data to the Foundation during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, we may not be able to process your application properly or at all.