Value Based Interviewing (VBI)

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Greater London National Training Awards Winner 2009

Greater London National Training Awards Winner 2009 A two-day training course for anyone responsible for conducting recruitment interviews with staff and/or volunteers wanting to work with children.

Course aim

This course is for those who have a responsibility for interviewing candidates wishing to work in a paid or voluntary capacity in organisations that provide services to children. The course is designed around the values, principles and standards of behaviour in individual organisations and gives participants advanced interviewing skills to explore individuals’ fit with their organisational culture.

Participants will learn how to assess aspects of a candidate's character which are difficult to test but essential for being effective in work in child focused organisations, such as values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour. The course will demonstrate how to explore "gut feeling" and remain fair and non-discriminatory when asking probing questions.

Course objectives

This course will enable participants to:

explain how VBI helps to safeguard children through recruitment interviewing
explain the importance of organisational values and behaviours in creating and maintaining a culture of safeguarding
explore a model of suitability and behavioural effectiveness to work for a specific children’s organisation and how to test suitability in an interview
use active listening and a range of questioning and probing techniques to explore a candidate's answers in-depth
analyse evidence of candidates' values and behaviours against a value-based criteria
make an informed decision on a candidate's suitability to work in a specific children’s organisation
give feedback to a candidate after a VBI interview.

Venues and dates

This is a training course for delivery on request - it can be delivered at a date and venue of your choice. To arrange training on Value Based Interviewing (VBI) please contact NSPCC Training.

We are also able to develop or modify a course specifically to meet your needs. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact NSPCC Training.