East Midlands Education Trust

Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

This part of the application form will NOT be used to shortlist candidates for interview and will NOT be viewed by the recruitment panel.

In order to ensure that discrimination does not take place during the recruitment process, the recruitment panel will not see the information you provide on the following pages. However, your personal details are needed to process your application and Sections One and Two below must be completed for your application to be considered.

Personal Details

Disability

The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as, “a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.” The Act requires an employer to make “Reasonable Adjustments” to working conditions, in order to enable disabled applicants to have equal access to employment opportunities. The information disclosed here will only be used to enable a fair decision to be made and will not be used to discount applicants.

If you have answered Yes to the above, please answer the following question

Equality in Employment Statement

This part of the application form will NOT be used to shortlist candidates for interview and will NOT be viewed by the Recruitment panel.

The East Midlands Education trust, together with the recognised Trade Unions, is committed to the development of positive policies to promote equal opportunities in employment and in the delivery of our services, regardless of race, disability, gender, belief or religion, age or sexual orientation. This commitment will apply to recruitment and selection practices, training and promotion, in the application of national and local agreements, in respect of pay and conditions of services and in the provision of all services. One aim of this policy is to make sure that applicants for jobs are not discriminated against. The policy also aims to make sure that applicants are not disadvantaged by job conditions or requirements that are not relevant.

In order to monitor and ensure the successful development of this policy, all applicants for jobs are requested to complete the Recruitment and Selection Monitoring information detailed below and overleaf.

Please double click to check the box, as appropriate

Your gender*
Your age*
Religion or Belief*
If you consider yourself to be disabled, please specify
How did you find out about this vacancy?*

Appeals Procedure

The East Midlands Education Trust operates a recruitment appeals procedure. If you consider that you have been discriminated against during recruitment because of your race, disability, gender, belief or religion, age or sexual orientation, send full details within 14 days of the alleged act taking place (or within 14 days of the recruitment procedure) to the HR Director, East Midlands Education Trust, c/o The West Bridgford School, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7FA. Please state the post title, school or job location and the grounds on which it is considered that the discrimination has occurred.

Declaration

I consent to the collection, storage and use of my race, disability, gender, belief or religion, age or sexual orientation details. I understand that these details will not be used as part of the selection process. I understand that any use of these details will only involve producing anonymous statistics to monitor the effectiveness of the school’s Equal Opportunity policy.