Safe Recruitment and Selection Policy

Galway Youth Musical Theatre will ensure that staff are carefully selected, trained and supervised to provide a safe environment for all children and young people, by observing the following principles:

 

• Roles and responsibilities will be clearly defined for every job (paid or voluntary)
  
• Posts will be advertised widely
  
• We will endeavour to select the most suitably qualified personnel
• Candidates will be required to complete an application form
  
• Candidates will be asked to sign a declaration form
  
• At least two written references that are recent, relevant, independent and verbally confirmed will be necessary
  
• Staff will be selected by a panel of at least two (or more) representatives through an interview process
  
• No person who would be deemed to constitute a ‘risk’ will be employed
  
• Some of the exclusions would include:

• any child-related convictions
• refusal to sign application form and declaration form
• insufficient documentary evidence of identification
• concealing information on one’s suitability to working with children
   
  

 

All staff will be required to consent to Garda clearance, and where available, this will be sought.