Current vacancies

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Senior Auditors (x2)
Information Policy Specialist

Vacancy: Senior Auditors (x2)

Salary: Starting Salary (base salary within the range £26,525 - £31,200, plus audit allowance of up to £5000 depending on qualifications and experience)

Closing date: 26 January 2004

PDF file of the Advert for Senior Auditors  (83Kb)

PDF file of the Information Pack for Senior Auditors  (202Kb)
Word file of the Information Pack for Senior Auditors  (315Kb)

Vacancy: Information Policy Specialist

Salary: £21k - £26k

Closing date: 12 January 2004

PDF file of the Advert for Information Policy Specialist  (63Kb)

PDF file of the Information Pack for Information Policy Specialist  (214Kb)
Word file of the Information Pack for Information Policy Specialist  (273Kb)

Opportunities

Our opportunities are open to UK nationals, Commonwealth citizens, nationals of EC and EEA states, and Swiss nationals, who have the right to live and work in the UK.  We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour ethnic origin, disability, community background or age (subject to our normal retirement age of 60).  We recruit and promote strictly on ability and performance, and take our commitments to diversity and equal opportunities seriously. 

If you are disabled, we have experience of making adjustments for employees with disabilities, and will make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and at work to help your career with us.  For more information on disabilities covered by the Disability Discrimination Act, please click here.

Pre appointment enquiries

If you are successfully selected, there will be some pre-appointment enquiries e.g. references, security, nationality and health checks before HM Treasury can make you a formal offer of appointment.

Definition of Disability

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 introduced a new definition of disability. As a result, disability is not defined by whether someone has a particular condition, but about the effect of the condition on normal day to day activities.

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The Act defines disability as follows:

A person is disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities.

This means that to be covered by the Act a person must have a condition which:

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  is not just temporary
• adversely affects their ability to carry out normal day to day activities
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  has a substantial effect – not just a minor or trivial one

The Act covers people who have a disability or have had a disability in the past (even if they have fully recovered).

The main concepts used in the Act’s definition are:

• impairment
  This covers physical or mental impairments, and includes sensory impairments such as those that affect sight or hearing. Mental impairments include those that affect mental functioning, including learning disabilities. It includes clinically well-recognised mental illness – that is to say mental illness that is recognised by a respected body of medical opinion.
• substantial adverse effect
  This means that the disability must have had an adverse effect that is more than minor or trivial.
• long term effect This means an effect which;
  • has lasted at least 12 months; or
  • is likely to last for a total period of at least 12 months; or
  • is likely to last for the rest of a person’s life, even if that person isn’t expected to live for 12 months.
• normal day to day activities
  Broadly speaking these are activities, which people do, fairly frequently or regularly. The Act says there must be an effect on the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, not necessarily an effect on the activities themselves.

Additional information

The Act’s definition also covers: disabilities being treated (examples include epilepsy corrected by medication or diabetes controlled by insulin), people who were disabled in the past but have recovered (e.g. past history of cancer or mental illness), severe disfigurements, progressive conditions and people who were formally registered as disabled.

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