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Unit 520 – Recruitment and selection within health and social care or children and young people’s settings (O16)
Introduction: The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to recruit and select in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings.
Understand the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Explain the impact on selection and recruitment processes, in own setting, of: Legislative requirements
Regulatory requirements
Professional codes
Agreed ways of working
As a manager it is important for me to understand what impacts on the recruitment and selection process. I need to know about the legislative, regulatory, codes of practice and how agreed ways of working can affect the processes that I use. I must adhere to legislation and requirements to ensure I am completing the process legally and fairly.
Below are some the things that impact on the recruitment process and of which I am knowledgeable about. I must ensure that my policies and procedures adhere to legislation or I will be held liable for not following processes that are in place.
The Equality Act came into force on the 1st October 2010 and it aims to provide a simpler, more consistent and more effective legal framework for preventing discrimination. The stated aim of the Act is to reform and harmonise discrimination law and to strengthen the law to support progress on equality. It will replace the following equality legislation:
The Equal Pay Act 1970
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975
The Race Relations Act 1976
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
The Employment Equality Regulations 2003
From knowing this I must ensure that my recruitment and selection process follows the regulations set out by the now updated Equality Act 2012.
The Equality Act covers the same groups that were protected by existing equality legislation and now calls them ‘protected
Introduction: The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to recruit and select in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings.
Understand the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Explain the impact on selection and recruitment processes, in own setting, of: Legislative requirements
Regulatory requirements
Professional codes
Agreed ways of working
As a manager it is important for me to understand what impacts on the recruitment and selection process. I need to know about the legislative, regulatory, codes of practice and how agreed ways of working can affect the processes that I use. I must adhere to legislation and requirements to ensure I am completing the process legally and fairly.
Below are some the things that impact on the recruitment process and of which I am knowledgeable about. I must ensure that my policies and procedures adhere to legislation or I will be held liable for not following processes that are in place.
The Equality Act came into force on the 1st October 2010 and it aims to provide a simpler, more consistent and more effective legal framework for preventing discrimination. The stated aim of the Act is to reform and harmonise discrimination law and to strengthen the law to support progress on equality. It will replace the following equality legislation:
The Equal Pay Act 1970
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975
The Race Relations Act 1976
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
The Employment Equality Regulations 2003
From knowing this I must ensure that my recruitment and selection process follows the regulations set out by the now updated Equality Act 2012.
The Equality Act covers the same groups that were protected by existing equality legislation and now calls them ‘protected