Recruitment and Selection Information

On these pages you will find all you need to know about how to recruit a new or replacement member of staff. If you can't find what you need, please get in touch with Alexa Copley or Claire Brown or your HR contact.

Shared Redeployment Scheme

The organisations; University of Bradford, Bradford College, InCommunities, Bradford and Airedale NHS PCT, West Yorkshire Probation Trust and Bradford Council have agreed to the sharing of Redeployment Pools in order to provide opportunities for our collective employees to seek to avoid compulsary redundancies within the Public Sector. This is a voluntary final option before redundancy.

Redeployment will be fully explored within each organisation in the first instance. Any jobs not filled this way will be advertised internally before being opened up to the shared pool. This will be done before jobs are advertised externally and will add a further 5 days to the current advertising process.

Shortlisting and interviewing will be done in the usual way and a job will not proceed any further until any shared Redeployment applications have been considered.

If you have any queries please contact Alexa Copley, Recruitment Coordinator in HR on a.copley@bradford.ac.uk ext 6016 or your HR Adviser.

Important - Recruitment and Selection Update February 2011

The Equality Act 2010 has resulted in changes to the recruitment and promotion of staff. Key changes are:

Positive action - appointment of under represented groups
Limitations on the use of health related questions during recruitment and selection exercises

All staff involved in the recruitment and selection process should read and familiarise themselves with the briefing below.

Recruitment - Equality Briefing

The process map shows the full recruitment process of a permanent or fixed term member of staff.

Process Map - Recruitment of a Permanent or Fixed Term Member of Staff

Recruitment Legislation and Good Practice

Complaints Procedure

Here is a brief overview of the recruitment and selection process:

The Recruiting Manager prepares a job description, post specification, any supplementary information and a draft advert
The Recruiting Manager, after discussions with their HR Adviser, sends all the above to HR for the post to be graded
The Recruiting Manager identifies the resource need and completes an RSA1 and a Business Case
The Recruiting Manager completes the Recruitment Planning Form and sends to HR (to include whether any selection exercises for the interview and pre-employment checks are required)
HR advertise all posts on the Redeployment Bulletin in the first instance
HR then advertise all posts not filled through Redeployment internally and/or externally (in line with current Advertising procedures)
HR approve all applications through e-recruitment
The Recruiting Manager accesses the applications through MyView and draws up the shortlist.
HR writes to candidates in line with the arrangements on the Recruitment Planning Form
The Chair of the Appointment Committee makes a verbal offer to the successful candidate
HR send formal written confirmation to the successful candidate (subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks)
HR undertake required pre-employment checks
HR write to all unsuccessful candidates
HR confirm offer of appointment upon receipt of satisafctory checks and issue the contract of employment