Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) asks schools to carry out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of the process of assessing suitability. 

You (and all other candidates) are therefore required to provide the following information as part of your application:

• the social media platforms on which you have accounts;
• the account names/handles for all of your social media accounts, including any under a nickname or pseudonym;
• any websites you are involved with, in or featured on or named on; and
• any other publicly available online information about you of which the School should be made aware.

If you are shortlisted for the role, we may carry out an online search based on the information you provide in this form.  If we carry out a search, we will also search more widely for any other online information about you. 

You are not required to provide account passwords or to grant the School access to private social media accounts.

If you are not shortlisted for the role, online searches will not be carried out on you. 

• planning and preparing lessons and courses for pupils;
• delivering lessons to pupils;
• assessing the development, progress and attainment of pupils; and
• reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.

The above activities do not amount to 'teaching work' if they are supervised by a qualified teacher or other person nominated by the Head.

The School is also not permitted to employ anyone to work in a management position if they are prohibited from being involved in the management of an independent school. This applies to the following positions at the School:

• Head;
• teaching posts on the senior leadership team;
• teaching posts which carry a departmental head role; and
• support staff posts on the senior leadership team.

The School is also not permitted to employ anyone to work in a position which involves the provision of 'childcare' if they are disqualified from providing 'childcare'. For these purposes 'childcare' includes:

• all supervised activities before, during and after the school day for children in our early years provision i.e. for a child up to 1 September following their 5th birthday; and
• provision for children who are not in our early years provision and who are under the age of 8, which takes place on the school premises before or after the school day.

Work as a cleaner, driver, transport escort, member of the catering staff or member of the office staff is not considered 'childcare' for these purposes.

The declaration at Section 14 of this Form therefore asks you to confirm whether you are prohibited from carrying out 'teaching work', prohibited from being involved in the management of an independent school and / or disqualified from providing 'childcare'. You do not have to complete these aspects of the declaration if you are not applying for a relevant role. If you are unsure whether the role for which you are applying involves teaching work, is a relevant management role or involves the provision of 'childcare' please contact the HR Manager.

Please supply the names and contact details of two people who we may contact for references.  One of these must be your current or most recent employer.  If your current / most recent employment does / did not involve work with children, then your second referee should be from your employer with whom you most recently worked with children.  Neither referee should be a relative or someone known to you solely as a friend.  The School intends to take up references on all shortlisted candidates before interview.  The School reserves the right to take up references from any previous employer.

If the School receives a factual reference i.e. one which contains only limited information about you, additional references may be sought.

If you have previously worked overseas the School may take up references from your overseas employers.

If the School feels it is necessary to take up additional references for any reason we will contact you to discuss this before approaching any party for an additional reference.

The School may also telephone your referees in order to verify the reference they have provided.

The School treats all references given or received as confidential which means that you will not usually be provided with a copy.