Your involvement in recruitment of our staff
The policy on service user and carer involvement in recruitment
was approved in November 2005, having been drafted in conjunction
with service users and staff who had been involved in recruitment
processes. Since that time it has been rolled out across the county
and there has been a significant increase in the number of teams
within Kent County Council who have involved users and carers in
their recruitment processes. Examples include:
- people being involved on formal interview panels
- preparing questions for candidates
- shortlisting candidates, and
- taking part in separate workshops where candidates deliver a
presentation and service users ask questions and provide feedback
for the recruiting manager.
Read some views of service users who have been involved in
helping us with the recruitment process.
Find out more
We have put together some information about involving service
users and carers when recruiting:
Get involved
Find out what Laura Macleod had to say about her involvement in
the recruitment of staff:
"We wanted to involve carers/users in the recruitment
process and succeeded with the help of our colleagues to enlist the
cooperation of two "volunteers" who were carers.
On the day of the interviews we set them up in a room (with
expert support) and they compiled a short series of questions with
a simple scoring system.
The candidates were advised that the exercise would take
place in advance and they spent 15-20 minutes with the carers
before being interviewed by the panel.
The feedback from the carers was very enlightening-one
candidate did not seem to engage at all and failed to see the
importance of relatives being involved in the review process. This
person was not appointed!"
Interested? Then let us know by completing our
online form.