Human Resources

This policy gives you information about what the University will do if an applicant or an existing employee has a criminal record.

• Applicants must declare unspent convictions (and spent convictions for jobs exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA)).   
• We won’t take spent criminal records into account unless the job is exempt from the ROA.
• We have the right not to offer someone a job, or to take action against existing employees, if they have a criminal record.
• Existing employees should tell the HR Director (or nominee) about any criminal records they have.

Our guidance will help you to carry out a criminal records check for a non-UK national.

The guidance details:

• the process for obtaining criminal record information from different countries,
• how to ensure an effective process and that documents produced are genuine, and
• what to do if you cannot obtain a check from overseas.