Please refer to the recruitment pack before completing this application form. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates from all backgrounds. Members of the recruitment panel will consider information you provide against the person specification for the role to decide whether you will be shortlisted for an interview. It is therefore essential that you complete the form fully and that you clearly demonstrate how you meet each point on the person specification. Please note that CVs are not accepted.

Entitlement To Work In The UK

A job offer will be subject to confirmation that you are permitted to work in the UK in accordance with the provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. You will be asked to provide evidence of your entitlement to work in the UK if you are successful and an offer of employment is made. Please note that Citizens Advice does not hold a sponsor licence and, therefore, cannot issue certificates of sponsorship under the points-based system.

Criminal Convictions

Having a criminal record is not in itself a barrier to working for us, and we will only take relevant convictions or sexual offences into account. Our policy is in place to make sure ex-offenders are treated fairly. We consider each offence individually, looking at issues like risk to the client, how long ago it took place, the circumstances and whether they are relevant to the job role.

Anyone with a caution or conviction for a sexual offence against a child or vulnerable adult is considered unsuitable to work for us.

Section 2

Information, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities.

It is essential that you complete this section in full. Please refer to the recruitment pack for Applicants for further details.

• Please explain and demonstrate how your experience, skills and knowledge meet the selection criteria for the post described in the Person Specification (found in the Recruitment Pack).
• Please ensure that you address all the criteria on the person specification using the same order and numbers.

Career History

Please include your current / previous employment (including job training schemes), voluntary work, community activities, school placements, time caring for dependants etc. Please put in date order, starting with the most recent.

Please give details of educational qualifications you have obtained from school, college, university etc.

Please give details of any professional qualifications, including membership of any professional bodies and any job-related training that you have undertaken.

Declaration

I consent to this information being processed and stored for the purpose of recruitment and selection at Citizens Advice Salford and if appointed, for the purposes of employment at Citizens Advice Salford.

I confirm that to the best of my knowledge, the information I have provided on this application form is true and correct. I understand that if appointed on the basis of false information contained in this form, I may be summarily dismissed.

How we will use your information

The information you give us on the application form will be used to help us decide whether to recruit you as a member of staff - this is our ‘legitimate interest’ under data protection law. It will only be seen by staff involved in the recruitment process, and will be stored securely.

If you are recruited, we will retain your contact information in order to involve and support you. We will also collect additional information, such as next of kin details, and over time records of training, support meetings and where relevant, appraisals. Again, it will be kept securely, and only those people who need to see your information in order to involve you will have access to it.

All use of applicant’s information will be relevant to their involvement, and may include:

• Contacting applicants when necessary
• Making reasonable adjustments to improve accessibility
• Monitoring statistical details of our applicants
• Providing ongoing support to applicants
• Addressing problems or complaints

Please note this section will be detached before sending your application to the recruitment panel for shortlisting.

The Citizens Advice service is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

In order to achieve these aims we need to know about the diversity of people who apply to work in the service. Please help us by providing the following information.

All information will be treated confidentially and will be separated from your application form before making any selection decisions.

If you prefer not to answer any of the questions please leave them blank.

General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

Under data protection law we are allowed to ask for this information as it's sole purpose is to allow us to monitor the diversity of our applicants Citizens Advice Salford will keep the information secure and confidential and use it only for the purposes of recruitment and selection diversity monitoring. If you become an employee of Citizens Advice Salford the information will be retained for the purpose of diversity monitoring only.

Thank you for your co-operation.

The following information will not be seen by the recruitment panel and will not affect your application.

Ethnic origin

How would you describe yourself? Choose one section (A to E).

Disability

A disabled person is defined under the Equality Act 2010 as someone with a ‘physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on that person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’

The information on this form is for monitoring purposes only. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in the recruitment process or at work subsequently if appointed, please make sure you tell us separately from this form. We follow the social model of disability which believes that it is the barriers created by society which disable people. We will use reasonable adjustments wherever possible to remove those barriers.

Religion or belief

Which group below do you most identify with?

Gender Identity

Is your gender identity the same as the gender you were assigned at birth?

How did you hear about this opportunity?