Job Application form

Please provide FULL details of your employment history; dates will be checked against your references and any other supporting documents. Where there are gaps in your employment, please complete this section below.

Please provide referee details for current or most recent employer and at least one other. Where applicable, please ensure at least one of your references relates to a role where you have cared for children/vulnerable adults.

The nature of the role you are applying for requires that we undertake an enhanced DBS check, including Barred Lists.

This check will be carried out prior to any formal offer of employment being made to you.

Where a DBS check is returned marked, we will explore this with you before taking a decision on your suitability to undertake the role you have applied for. A marked DBS will not automatically bar you from employment with Almond Care.

The nature of the post for which you are applying means that it is exempt from Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You are not, therefore, entitled to withhold information about cautions or convictions, which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provisions of the Act, unless covered by the Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules which specify under what circumstances certain cautions or convictions are classed as ‘spent’.

Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/filtering-rules-for-criminal-record-check-certificates

Filtering rules do not apply to certain convictions, please refer to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-list-of-offences-that-will-never-be-filtered-from-a-criminal-record-check

If you are successful the information on the form will be considered and, if you have declared any previous criminal convictions, cautions or reprimands, these may be discussed with you prior to a decision being taken on your appointment. If you are appointed any failure to disclose cautions or convictions not expressly covered by the filtering rules may result in the offer of appointment being withdrawn or disciplinary action being taken and possibly the police and/or the Disclosure and Barring Service being notified.

Please be aware that Almond Care operates a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders and that a criminal record will not automatically bar anyone from employment with the organisation.