Welcome to Barnardo's!
Whether you're working in one of our services, in one of our stores, or in our central teams, we want to ensure you have access to guidance to support you in your role at Barnardo's. From recruitment to induction, view the vital information, policies and procedures below.
Support during recruitment
- Job Share Policy: Find out more about sharing your role with another person and the responsibilities of colleagues, line managers and people teams.
- Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy: Barnardo's welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates, including individuals with criminal records.
- Recruitment & Selection Policy and Procedure: View our standards to make sure we have safe, fair and effective recruitment and selection procedures. Policy covers promoting equality and diversity, advertising, pre-employment checks, selection, record keeping and data protection.
- Right-to-work checklist: View The Home Office right-to-work checklist and our guidance for recruiting managers.
- Welcome Pack for contingent workers: View all guidance and forms for managers recruiting contractors, agency and casual workers. Vital information includes agency worker guidance, request forms and the External Consultants Questionnaire (ECQ).
New starter guidance for your first few weeks at Barnardo's
- Criminal Records Policy: Find out more about when you need a disclosure check and why - view guidance for England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland
- DBS Process Guidance: Learn how to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service check and what to do once the check has been completed online.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy: How we're working together to create equality, diversity and inclusion for paid and unpaid colleagues.
- Employee Handbook: Our values, goals, terms of employment and employee benefits.
- Eyesight testing and spectacles: If you need glasses when you use a computer screen, we may be able to help cover the cost of your test and your lenses.
- Homeworking Policy and Procedure: Access our guidelines and risk assessments for working from home.
- Filtering Guidance: Read the rules on filtering convictions from DBS certificates in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Obtaining References Policy: Make sure you've got the right references for your new employee.
- Working Time Regulations 1998: Covering maximum weekly hours, daily/weekly rest breaks, night work and paid annual leave.
Published
10 August 2023
Latest update
10 August 2023
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10 August 2023new policy page