About The Role:
You will be safeguarding the most vulnerable members of our communities and the general public by reviewing information held on police systems, conducting assessments to national standards and making decisions on disclosure of that information via a national framework, to enable safer recruitment decisions.
The role provides the opportunity for career progression as you learn each aspect of our safeguarding duties, which include the processing of Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service applications, Common Law Police Disclosure and providing information to the Barring arm of the Disclosure and Barring Service. The knowledge and experience you will gain by learning each aspect of our safeguarding duties, will then enable you to progress through each stage of the role profiles. Detail on the differing aspects of our safeguarding duties is detailed below:
Enhanced DBS applications are sent to police forces to conduct checks on applicants wishing to work in regulated activity with children or vulnerable adults and some other roles. Police forces will assess information held on an applicant against a national framework, making decisions in line with statutory guidance to determine if the information they hold should be shared on an applicants Enhanced DBS Certificate.
Common Law Police Disclosure is a process through which we share relevant police information with employers, organisations or regulatory bodies where there is a social and pressing need for this information to be shared in order to protect vulnerable people or the wider public. This enables employers to take urgent safeguarding action.
Barring is a formal safeguarding action taken by the Disclosure and Barring Service to legally prevent an individual from working in certain roles with children, adults or both where they could pose a risk. When DBS consider whether to include someone on one or both of the Barred Lists, they ask us to provide evidence to assist with their decision making in the form of case files. A decision Maker will collate and redact information in line with Force Policies and Data Protection legislation.
Through this role you can make a real difference to people’s lives in protecting those who may be unable to protect themselves and those that trust others to protect them.
Through this role you can make a real difference to people’s lives in protecting those who may be unable to protect themselves and those that trust others to protect them.
The DBS Team is committed to safeguarding the vulnerable. In Beds, Cambs and Herts we service approximately 113,000 applications a year between our three locations and our dynamic Team of over 40 people.
