PURPOSE
The recruitment and selection process are of importance to us in order to recruit staff with the necessary skills and attributes to enable the Nursery to fulfil its aims and objectives. The Recruitment and Selection Policy and Procedures aim to provide clear guidance to managers and others involved with recruitment in relation to both the selection and appointment of staff. This policy promotes and supports good practice for those with responsibility for recruitment.
DEFINITIONS
Recruitment – the action of finding new people to join an organization.
Appointment - an act of assigning a job or position to someone.
Qualification – a condition that must be fulfilled before a right can be acquired; an official requirement.
Interview - an oral examination of an applicant for a job, college place, etc.
POLICY STATEMENT
This policy and procedures aim to achieve the following objectives:
- Recruit staff with the appropriate skills, both technical and personal, to meet the nursery’s current and future needs.
- To ensure that staff appointed to posts involving teaching and care responsibilities are qualified to carry out such duties or are working towards an appropriate qualification. • Develop and enhance the public image of the nursery, both as an employer and as a quality provider of childcare services.
- To ensure that by following the safer recruitment process we fulfil and exceed our duty of care to safeguard and protect children from unsuitable adults.
We ensure that individuals are recruited, selected, trained and promoted based on their own skills, qualification and experience. By doing this we will ensure that everybody will be treated equally on the grounds of ethnic origin, race, color, marital status, nationality. We do not hire male staff at our nursery. At the nursery we are vigilant in our recruitment procedures aiming to ensure all people working with children are qualified and suitable to do so. We follow this procedure every time we recruit a new member to join our team.
Documents to be submitted by the candidates before recruitment:
- Updated resume
- Passport / visa copy
- Sponsors passport / visa copy
- Emirates ID
- Sponsors Emirates ID
- Medical Card copy
- Police clearance
- Attested Qualification certificates
- Experience Certificate.
All new members of staff will undergo an intensive appointment period during which time they will read and discuss the nursery policies and procedures and receive a mentor, normally the Supervisor will introduce them to the way in which the nursery operates.
- Appointment will also be provided by a designated member of the management team. • During their appointment period all new staff will receive awareness training on how to safeguard children in their care and follow the *Safeguarding Children/*Child Protection policy and procedure.
- The new member of staff will receive regular meetings with the manager and their mentor during their appointment period to discuss their progress.
- Staff will be made aware of the positive ethos of their working environment in relation to safeguarding.
- All staff will be made aware that children’s needs are the priority and that the voice of the child is valued and listened to.
- All staff will be made aware of how to report a concern or make a complaint about the well-being of a child or the behavior of a colleague / visitor / parent / caregiver.
- All staff are made aware of the nursery code of conduct. Management must show how this is embedded into the workplace culture, appraisal process and performance management.
- Staff are made aware of the whistleblowing policy and how to express concerns or make complaints. Reports are acted upon quickly and the employee is given assurance that there is no recrimination on the whistle-blower provided the allegation is not in any way unfounded or malicious.
- All new members of staff will be asked for information related to payroll, such as banking details, leave policy and allowances.
IMPLEMENTATION DOCUMENTS
Please refer to the following documents to ensure the effective implementation of the policy:
- Interview form
