Section 1 | Application
Please refer to the Guidance Notes for Applicants before completing this application form.
We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates from all backgrounds. Members of the recruitment panel will consider information you provide against the person specification for the role to decide whether you will be shortlisted for an interview. It is therefore essential that you complete the form fully and that you clearly demonstrate how you meet each point on the person specification. Please note that CVs are not accepted.
1. Personal information and address for correspondence
2. Entitlement to work in the UK
To take up this post you must have the right to work in the UK.
Please note that Citizens Advice Bexley does not hold a sponsor license and, therefore, cannot issue certificates of sponsorship under the points-based system.
3. Criminal convictions
Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working for Citizens Advice Bexley – much will depend on the type of job you have applied for and the background and circumstances of your offence.
For some posts, an offer of employment will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If this applies to the post for which you are applying, this will be noted in the application pack.
Please see Guidance Notes and Application Pack for further details.
4. References
Please provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of two people who may be approached for references. One of these should be your present or most recent employer, the other could be someone who knows you in a work related, voluntary or academic capacity. Both referees should be able to comment on your suitability for the post applied for. References will only be taken up for successful candidates following interview.
First Reference
Second Reference
Section 2 : Information, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
It is essential that you complete this section in full. Please refer to the Guidance Notes for Applicants for further details.
Please explain and demonstrate how your experience, skills and knowledge meet the selection criteria for the post described in the Person Specification (found in the Job Pack).
Please ensure that you address all the criteria on the person specification using the same order and numbers.
Career history
Please include your current / previous employment (including job training schemes), voluntary work, community activities, school placements, time caring for dependents etc. Please put in date order, starting with the most recent.
Details for Employer 1
Details for Employer 2
Details for Employer 3
Details for Employer 4
Details for Employer 5
Details for Employer 6
Details for Employer 7
Details for Employer 8
Details for Employer 9
Details for Employer 10
Educational history
Please give details of educational qualifications you have obtained from school, college, university etc.
Qualification 1
Qualification 2
Qualification 3
Qualification 4
Qualification 5
Qualification 6
Qualification 7
Qualification 8
Qualification 9
Qualification 10
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Professional development
Please give details of any professional qualifications, including membership of any professional bodies and any job-related training that you have undertaken.
Declaration
Data Protection Statement: I consent to this information being processed and stored for the purpose of recruitment and selection at Citizens Advice Bexley, and if appointed, for the purposes of employment at Citizens Advice Bexley.
I confirm that to the best of my knowledge, the information I have provided on this application form is true and correct. I understand that if appointed on the basis of false information contained in this form, I may be summarily dismissed.
Section 3 : Diversity monitoring
Please note this section will be detached before sending your application to the recruitment panel for shortlisting.
The Citizens Advice service is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
In order to achieve these aims we need to know about the diversity of people who apply to work in the service. Please help us by providing the information requested below.
Data protection overview
If you are happy to provide it, we will use this information for the sole purpose of allowing us to monitor equality of opportunity and treatment as necessary to maintain or promote equality within Citizens Advice Bexley.
The information you give us will be kept securely, won't be shared outside the service and is confidential.
It will not be seen by anyone responsible for making recruitment decisions or have any impact on you directly.
If you are successful in your application and we require this information for other purposes, you will be asked to provide it separately - i.e. this form will not be used for other purposes.
If you would prefer not to answer any of the questions we ask, please leave them blank. If you would like us stop using the information you provide, please contact us.
Thank you for your co-operation.
The following information will not be seen by the recruitment panel and will not affect your application.
Age
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Ethnic origin
How would you describe yourself? First select your First Choice the choose from the relevant options that then appear.
Disability
A disabled person is defined under the Equality Act 2010 as someone with a ‘physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on that person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’
The information on this form is for monitoring purposes only. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in the recruitment process or at work subsequently if appointed, please make sure you tell us separately from this form. We follow the social model of disability which believes that it is the barriers created by society which disable people. We will use reasonable adjustments wherever possible to remove those barriers.
Gender Identity
A disabled person is defined under the Equality Act 2010 as someone with a ‘physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on that person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’
Religion or belief
