Employment Screening and Background Checks

Best Practice International Pre-Employment and Employment Screening Agency

The Screening Bureau is a leading international outsourced screening provider committed to providing best practice employment screening and background checks.

Do you want to protect your business and current staff from unnecessary risks?

Our multilingual screening teams provide flexible, proactive screening services to cover all your pre-employment and employment screening requirements. We also offer ad-hoc or permanent assistance to your in-house screening operation.

Would you like to ensure a positive candidate experience and secure processing of personal data?

The Screening Bureau implements clear lines of communication, a strong team ethos and streamlined processes.
Our secure data protection policies are adhered to throughout the business, so you can be confident that your candidates’ data is totally secure in our hands.

Our specially developed candidate information packs explain data protection and the pre-employment screening process, as part of our commitment to positive candidate experience.

Do you urgently need to fill vacancies?

The Screening Bureau’s Pre-Employment Screening Packages

Corporate Screening Packages

Our clients have bespoke requirements and we work with them to assess the level and type of risk associated with different roles.  We can then advise which screening levels mitigate these risks and implement screening packages which fit seamlessly within the client’s corporate culture and recruitment processes.

Each client chooses their own individually designed bespoke solution, selecting the appropriate level of international screening package. These are some examples of the kind of packages available, but the package you choose will be selected and designed specifically for you:

Level 1 – Low Risk Roles

• Identity & Right to Work checks
• Residency Verification (UK and abroad)
• 3 year employment checks

Level 2 – Medium Risk Roles

• Identity & Right to Work checks
• Residency Verification (UK and abroad)
• 5 year employment checks
• Financial Probity check (credit check)

Level 3 – High Risk Roles

• Identity & Right to Work checks
• Residency Verification (UK and abroad)
• 5 year employment checks
• Educational Establishments
• Professional Qualifications or Memberships
• Financial Probity check (credit check)
• Directorship check
• Criminality check

Level 4 – Senior Management/Executive Roles

• Identity & Right to Work checks
• Residency Verification (UK and abroad)
• 10 year employment checks
• Educational Establishments
• Professional Qualifications or memberships
• Financial Probity check (credit check)
• Directorship check
• Criminality check
• Sanction List check

BS 7858:2006+A2:2009 Security Screening of Individuals employed in a Security Environment

• Identity/Right to Work check
• Residency Verification (UK and abroad)
• Financial Probity check (credit check)
• Basic Disclosure Criminality check
  
• 5 year telephone background check followed by a 5 (or 10 year for particular sectors) written employment background check
• Two character references
  

The Security Watchdog Screening Bureau operates to consistently faster turnaround times than industry standards

Implementation

Once we’ve helped you to decide what screening package or individual check best suits your business, you will need expert guidance to integrate pre or post-employment screening into your recruitment workflow.

That’s where our experienced Implementation Team comes in.  As process experts they will review your current procedures with you and supply the necessary hard/soft copy documentation and training to ensure that the screening contract starts on a robust footing.

Implementation over a 6 week period guarantees that both parties are aware of their roles and responsibilities, are working to an agreed risk matrix and have clear processes in place:

         PES Pack

• A bespoke suite of Pre-employment Screening documents covering recruiter and candidate briefs, revised paper or on-line application forms, FAQs, clearance certificates, reference request types, Standard Operating Procedures, process flowcharts and more!
• Familiarisation sessions when pre-selected Screening Bureau executives meet client HR teams and learn about client cultures, challenges and expectations.

         Training

• On-site or telephone training on the usage of our extranet VOLT tracking system
• On-site Immigration Workshop Training for recruiters to ensure that new clients are appraised on this area. 
• Best practice identity and right-to-work checks to ensure ‘statutory excuse’.

How The Security Watchdog Screening Bureau works:

Our recognised Training School in Hampshire supports a comprehensive internal development programme for our screening teams and in return we have a loyal, motivated and proactive workforce, focused on customer and candidate experience and in ensuring expectations are exceeded.

All Screening Bureau recruits are screened to the highest level.  They are then mentored by senior managers and their work undergoes continuous compliance checking until completion of a 6 month probation period.

The Operation rigorously adheres to internal Standard Operating Procedures, which we share with our clients, to ensure consistency and proactivity in our service.

Our cutting edge is provided by our own Advisory Bureau, regularly updating the Operation on industry trends and available checks, such that our monthly Client Management Information Reporting not only captures analysis of our performance, but informs clients of important updates in the world of screening.

Above all we understand the tight timelines required to on-board new recruits. Our screening operation works to pre-agreed turnaround times, and to support these we have established a series of ‘workarounds’, expert screening methodologies used when standard referencing - for reasons outside our control - are not available.

Our background as auditors allows no compromise on quality.

With risk, there is no second chance – contact The Security Watchdog today.

The Security Watchdog Screening Bureau :

• holds ISO 9001:2000 certification to include BS 7858 and BS 7499:2002.
• is a founding member of NAPBS (National Association of Professional Background Screeners)
• is a registered Umbrella Body of the Criminal Records Bureau and Disclosure Scotland
• is fully compliant with the UK Data Protection Act, European Data Directive and all International Privacy Laws
• has Committee Representation on the BSI Review Panel in respect of BS 7858:2006
• has dedicated Quality Representatives throughout the organisation
  

Get in touch

We offer flexible, personal pre-employment screening services, covering all your pre-employment screening requirements or we can  work together with your in-house operation to give expert support and assistance.