Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack

A comprehensive guidance pack with accompanying templates to help you plan and prepare the entire recruitment process for any role in a school setting, from shortlisting and interviewing, to pre-employment and appointment.

When you make your purchase, you'll receive a ZIP file containing the whole pack, including:

• A 25-page Guidance PDF in full colour containing all the guidance, research and information you need.
• A low-colour, print-friendly version of the same PDF.
• 13 fully editable and easy-to-use templates that can be adapted for your setting. These include:

1. Recruitment Timeline Template
2. Job Role Description Template
3. Person Specification Template
4. Application Form Shortlisting Template
5. Shortlisting and Interview Letters
6. Interview Timetable and SchedulE
7. Interview Task Template
8. Interview Questions Template
9. Pre-Employment Checklist
10. Single Central Record Checklist
11. Safer Recruitment Checklist
12. Induction Checklist
13. Staff Handover Checklist

These thirteen editable templates will support you in planning the full recruitment process and they're not specific to certain roles, so can be used again and again each time you're faced with recruiting a new staff member. However, if you're looking for role-specific interview questions and tasks, we've got this too - see the "What else is available to support recruitment?" question for more details. 

With this pack, you'll explore how to design your recruitment timeline, including consideration of what to include in the job description and person specification for the role. It'll walk you through how to lead and manage an effective shortlisting process, including who to have on your interview panel, plus there are handy letter templates for each stage of the process so you can inform applicants and candidates of the outcomes whilst saving you time.

Planning an interview day, including all the tasks, interviews themselves and general organisation, can be daunting but the guidance supports you with how to tackle this. Included are editable templates to plan a timetable for your interview day as well as standard school interview questions you can select from. You may wish to set candidates an interview task as well, and we've included a template to support your thinking around this. 

This pack gives an overview of some of your legal responsibilities during recruitment, including what to add and update on your single central record and the necessary pre-employment and safer recruitment checks that need to take place. Included are checklists to support this, helping you to ensure all necessary checks and processes have taken place. 

Lastly, there's a staff handover and induction checklist to help you consider how to ensure your new staff member has the best possible start to their role. For more support on staff induction, we've got a separate pack available too: Staff Induction Pack