Hartlepool Borough Council Careers
• Information about criminal convictions and offences (e.g. Disclosure & Barring Service check / Baseline Personnel Security Standard).
4. How is your personal information collected
We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:
• You, the candidate.
• Recruitment agencies, which may provide to us with your consent, information consistent with that listed in section 3 above.
• Disclosure and Barring Service in respect of criminal convictions.
• Your named referees, from whom we collect the following categories of data: previous employment information, sickness absence history for the previous 2 years (if a conditional offer is made), information regarding any recent disciplinary proceedings or safeguarding concerns.
5. How we will use information about you
We will use the personal information we collect about you to:
• Assess your skills, qualifications, eligibility and suitability for the role.
• Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
• Keep records related to our recruitment processes.
• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements, e.g. right to work.
• Access funding from third parties, e.g. Apprentices or organisations funding specific roles.
We need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract with you and to comply with our legal or regulatory requirements.
Having received your application form, we will then process that information to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is strong enough to invite you for an interview.
If we decide to call you for an interview, we will use the information you provide to us at the interview to decide whether to offer you the role. If we decide to offer you the role, we will then take up pre-employment checks including references, qualifications, right to work in the UK, medical clearance and criminal record check, Baseline Personnel Security Standard check and professional body registration, if applicable, before confirming your appointment.
To be clear for some roles we may request references before we interview you, unless you specifically request that we do not.
6. If you fail to provide personal information
If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application, such as evidence of qualifications or work history, we will not be able to process your application successfully. For example, if we require references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.
7. How we use particularly sensitive personal information (special categories)
We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the limited following ways with your consent where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with data protection:
• We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, e.g. whether adjustments need to be made for / during an interview. The processing of this information is necessary for the Council to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
• We will use information about race or nationality or ethnic origin, religious or sexual orientation in an anonymous format, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting as required by legislation.
WELCOME TO HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL RECRUITMENT WEBSITE
From 1st July 2025, all job applications will be processed via North East Jobs. This applies to all vacancies advertised from 1st July 2025 onwards. Any vacancies advertised prior to 1st July 2025 will continue to be processed via this site.
We are delighted that you are interested in working for HBC.
Please take the time to read our Application Guidance notes above. A range of our vacancies are shown below but to view all vacancies please click on "Search" and a complete list will appear. To apply for Council vacancies, you must first create an account by clicking on “Register”.
We only accept online applications and all correspondence will be sent via the email address you provide to us. If you would like help or advice with your application, setting up an email account or registering to use our recruitment website, you can email us at workforce.support@hartlepool.gov.uk or reach us by telephone on 01429 401804 or 01429 523546.
Once you have completed a section of the appliclt">8. Information about criminal convictions
If a criminal record check is applicable to your role, we will collect information about your criminal convictions history (in addition to any other pre-employment checks). We are entitled to carry out a criminal records check in order to satisfy ourselves that there is nothing in your criminal convictions history which makes you unsuitable for the role.
In addition to the above, in some circumstances we may ask you to obtain additional criminal record checks from other countries you have lived or worked in that we think are reasonable and appropriate to obtain. The Council will pay for the cost of any Criminal Record Certificates we require, but will not pay for any additional / ancillary costs, e.g. travel regarding obtaining such overseas checks, these would be borne by the applicant. The applicant would retain ownership and control of the relevant certificate.
We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.
9. Data sharing - Why might you share my personal information with third parties
We will only share your personal information with third parties for the purposes of processing your application: Durham County Council Occupational Health Service (to process health checks prior to recruitment), North East Regional Employers’ Organisation and the Disclosure and Barring Service (to carry out criminal record checks) and reference providers (to clarify work history and suitability). NEC Software Solutions / North Yorkshire County Councation form, please click 'save' before proceeding to the 'next' section of your application to ensure the information enteredhas been saved.
Please ensure the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons are used to navigate through the application form, do not use the 'Back' button on your browser as information may be lost.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to receiving your completed application.
Please Note:
If you have not received a response to your application within 3 weeks of the closing date please assume you have been unsuccessful.
All successful applicants for jobs with the Council will be required to provide evidence of a right to work in the UK. Applicants for jobs who are EU/EEA/Swiss nationals should be aware that the UK has left the EU and the transition period has expired. This means that to apply for and undertake work in the UK after 1st July 2021 EU/EEA/Swiss citizens now have to provide evidence of a right to work in the UK, e.g. Settled or Pre-Settled Status. https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families The new system will treat EU and non-EU citizens equally. Currently HBC are not a Sponsor employer.
Irish citizens and Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man are exempt from theil and Firmstep Limited have access to maintain computer systems and software.
All our third-party service providers and other entities are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
10. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, or be altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know / purpose for accessing the data. They will only process your personal information for the purpose of the recruitment process and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
11. Data retention - How long will you use my information for?
We will retain your personal information for a period of six months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to role. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of aUK’s points-based immigration system and there will be no change to the arrangements for the Common Travel Area and assuch rights to work etc. continue.
Be assured Hartlepool Council welcomes job applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK. Immigration information may change / be updated so please regularly check the government websites.
A GDPR privacy statement for Employee Candidates is available at https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/downloads/download/882/privacy_notices
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