Safer interviewing skills

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A one-day training course for managers and HR professionals responsible for recruiting staff and/or volunteers to work with children

Topics covered include: professional boundaries, emotional resilience and motivation, building relationships with children and preparedness to take action to protect a child. The techniques utilised in the course are based on the NSPCC Value based interviewing model.

Course aim

To equip those who already have experience of recruitment and selection with more advanced interviewing skills to explore candidates’ safeguarding behaviours, attitudes and motivations in relation to safeguarding children.

It is essential that participants have understanding and experience of interviewing and recruitment decision-making as this is not basic recruitment and selection training.

Course objectives

This course is designed to enable participants to:

understand the purpose and value of asking questions focusing on safeguarding attitudes and behaviours in an interview
interview candidates using safeguarding behaviours as the basis for questions

use active listening and a range of questioning and probing techniques to explore candidates’ answers in-depth
analyse evidence of candidates' behaviours and attitudes against a set of criteria
make a more informed decision on candidates’ authenticity and suitability to work with children and young people.

The questions used within the training have been drawn up using safeguarding principles, professional codes of practice and the NSPCC research into values and behaviours of people who work with children.

Venue, dates and costs

This is a one day course. The cost is £160 per person (including lunch and refreshments).

13 October 2010: London
NSPCC Alexandra Ciardi House, 7-8 Greenland Place, London NW1 0AP
Map to NSPCC Alexandra Ciardi House in London (PDF, 60KB)
10 November 2010: Leicester
NSPCC National Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Beaumont Leys, Leicester LE4 1EZ
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If you would like to apply for this or any of our other training courses, or if you have any further questions about our services, please contact NSPCC Training