If you are applying for any self employed post within the College or Wellington College Fitness Centre you will be required to fund your own DBS (If you are not already on the update service), to obtain public liability insurance up to the value of £10 million and provide proof of first aid training.  These are all compulsory if you wish to work with us.  If you are not willing to obtain these at your own cost we will not be able to progress your application.

You can download the privacy notices for Wellington College, Wellington College Enterprises and Wellington College International here.

Due to the nature of our establishment, there are a number of pre-employment checks that need to be completed prior to commencement of work.  The processing of checks normally take around 4 weeks to complete, in busy periods this could take longer.  Without these checks completed we are unable to confirm your start date, so there may be a possibility of your start date being moved back until the checks have been completed.

In accordance with paragraph 220 of KCSIE, the College will conduct online searches on shortlisted candidates with the purpose of identifying any issues or incidents relating to any safeguarding or reputational matters that have occurred and are publicly available online. The searches will be conducted by a third-party company and the College will be provided with a summary report highlighting any areas of concern which will be explored at interview by a safer recruitment trained panel member.

Failure to authorise this search will result in the applicant’s withdrawal from the recruitment process.

In line with KSCIE we are required to obtain references prior interview, along with this we perform a gap analysis to ensure that there are no gaps within your application employment history.  We also reserve the right to check online and social media for all shortlisted candidates.

If you already work for Wellington College and wish to apply for another role you may do so in the same way as an external candidate.  However, if you are successful you are bound by a new contract under the current terms of employment, continuity of service will apply where applicable.  We are unable to accept internal applicants who have been in there current role for under 12 months.

You can download the Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy here in PDF format.

Wellington College Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy and Procedures

Under the latest Keeping Children Safe In Education 2021 statutory guidelines for schools and Colleges, and as a regulated environment, we are required to take up references on all short listed candidates prior to interview, and explore any issues as part of the interviewing process.  For both teaching and teaching support staff, this is a mandatory requirement.

For College staff, whilst again it is a mandatory requirement, if a short listed candidate is concerned about their current employer finding out about their intention to leave sooner than they would like, please email us at the time of application on hr@wellingtoncollege.org.uk with justification on why we are not to contact your references.  Please note that no offer of employment will be made until all references have been completed and considered satisfactory.