The Disclosure and Barring Service helps the Trust as an employer to make safer recruitment decisions. A DBS check allows employers to check the criminal record of someone applying for a role. There are different types of check:
- a basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- a standard check, which shows spent and unspent convictions and cautions
- an enhanced check, which shows the same as a standard check plus any information held by local police that’s considered relevant to the role
- an enhanced check with barred lists, which shows the same as an enhanced check plus whether the applicant is on the list of people barred from doing the role
If the applicant has signed up for the DBS update service, you can check whether their certificate is up to date online.
The external company that the Trust uses to carry out DBS checks is uCheck.