Safer-Recruitment Portal
Building and Fostering a Culture of Safeguarding and Safer Care
Role Titles: PCC Member, Church Warden
Following your successful nomination to serve on the PCC (including Elected, Co-opted, Deanery Synod, Parish Safeguarding Officers and Church Wardens), there are now five stages to complete. We recommend you will need a [x] hours to complete all of these stages.
If you have any questions relating to the following stages, please contact Joel Mennie (Vicar).
STAGE ONE. Read
As you begin your Application, please read the Role Expectation document appropriate to your role, our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy. At the end of your application you’ll be asked to confirm that you have read, understand and will put these into practice.
We anticipate it will take 20 minutes to read these documents.
STAGE TWO. Submit
When you have prayerfully considered whether it is right for you to apply for the role, please submit the following forms.
We anticipate this will take 20 minutes to complete.
STAGE THREE. Apply
Please follow the links below to help us to apply for your enhanced DBS Validation.
As a PCC member we will be applying for you to have an Enhanced DBS, suitable for work with both adults and children.
You will require the following login details:
Organisation Reference: 7828 Organisation Code: WILFRID7828
To complete this application, you will require appropriate ID documents (i.e. Driving Licence, Passport, National Insurance Number) and your address history for the last 5 years.
Please enter Role Title: [xx]
STAGE FOUR. Complete
Please now complete Safeguarding Training.
The following link will take you to the Church of England Safeguarding Training Portal. To access this you will need to create an account. From the portal you can undertake the level of training that you require.
All PCC Members are required to undertake:
Basic-Level Safeguarding Training
Foundation-Level Safeguarding Training
Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse Training
Church Wardens are also expected to undertake:
Leadership-Level Training
Safeguarding Officers should also ensure they undertake:
Leadership-Level Safeguarding Training
Safer Recruitment and People Management Training
We anticipate it will take 1 hour 30 minutes to complete each of required training courses.
STAGE FIVE. Send
When you have completed the training, please send a copy of your certificates to our safer-recruitment team.
What happens next?
Thank you for taking the time to engage with this process. The next thing to happen is that you will receive confirmation that your application and copy of your safeguarding certificate has been received. Follow which, the Ministry Team Leader for the team that you are applying to join will help integrate you into team.