Selection Process

If you are successful, you will receive a conditional offer and we will start progressing your pre-appointment checks, including vetting, medical, references, fitness test and a drugs test. Until these checks are complete you should not hand in your notice with your current employer.

Our vetting e-form asks for more details about you and those you live with. You will also be required to undertake biometric vetting, which involves your DNA and fingerprints being taken, and a hair sample will be taken for a drug test. Further details will be provided at the time.

A work health questionnaire must be completed and sent directly to the Occupational Health Department. Please complete the questionnaire carefully and thoroughly – if in doubt, disclose it. A full medical history must be disclosed as failure to do so may result in your application being rejected.

You will be asked to run to and fro along a 15 metre track in time with a series of bleeps. If you reach the end line before the bleep sounds you need to wait for the bleep before resuming your run and adjusting your speed. The time between bleeps gets progressively faster and it becomes more difficult to keep up with the required speed. To pass you need to reach a minimum of level 5.4.

References will need to be obtained from all employers (paid or otherwise) covering a minimum of three years.

Pre-employment checks take between three and six months. Once all checks have been concluded and approved, and a start date agreed, a final offer and conditions of service will be issued.

New intakes happen throughout the year. You will be notified nearer the time what your likely start date will be.

You will be required to successfully complete either a two year probation period on the DHEP programme, or a three year probation period on the PCDA programme.