Thank you so much for your willingness to help with our children and youth or vulnerable adult’s ministries within Walton Parish. Without your help we would not be able to provide all the enrichment activities that we currently do so thank you in advance on behalf of our children, youth and vulnerable adults in the parish and the wider community. Prior to helping we will need to do some safeguarding checks, and we’d also like you to have access to Walton Parish’s Safeguarding & Recruitment Policies and Role Descriptions/Person Specifications (found below).
These policies set out the details of safeguarding at Walton Parish and how the procedures for team recruitment work. There are also safer recruitment specific privacy, whistleblowing and recruitment of ex-offenders’ policies available below.
The Recruitment Process
During the recruitment process, we will ask you to complete an application form prior to meeting with the ministry leader, who along with another person, will meet with you to explain how the team works and discuss with you how you relate with the children/youth/vulnerable adults in their groups.
If your ministry team is eligible for a DBS check then you will be asked to complete a confidential declaration form (which can be found below) as well as a DBS application form online, then you will meet Julia to check your ID.
If you already have a DBS registered with the update service, please do let us know as Julia, our Safeguarding Administrator, will be able to check whether we’re able to use the existing DBS check.
We’ll then send out the reference requests for your two referees from your application form.
Once your references and DBS check come back, we will confirm that you’re able to help with the group you’ve applied for and the ministry leader will be in touch with a start date. On that start date the ministry lead will discuss the practicalities of the team as part of an induction process and ask you to sign the volunteer agreement.
Finally, we’ll ask you to complete some online safeguarding training. You will need to complete 3 online courses available on demand from the Church of England training portal. These are basic awareness, foundations and raising awareness of domestic abuse. These must be completed within 3 months or one academic term of your start date or we will have to ask you to step back from volunteering within our parish.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your willingness to join the team and for your help with the recruitment process. We hope that this brings you great joy in sharing your gifts and skills with those who might be more vulnerable in the community.
If you have any questions, please do contact Julia Gorrie on [email protected] who will be very happy to help!
