Employment Check Process

Step

Action

1

On receipt of the employment verification form, make a decision as to whether the form needs to be sent to a specific CPPS service centre, or arrange for verification at the CPPS liaison office.

Note: This decision is made immediately upon receiving the referral.

2

Prior to forwarding the employment verification form:

• locate the named offender in IOMS, and
• see if special conditions are attached to the sentence.

3

As the CPPS liaison, you will be granted observation access to the relevant IOMS records in order to gather information whether the offender has any:

• standard conditions, or
• special conditions

(Note: Make a note of what these conditions are, for the service centre undertaking the check.).

4

If the CPPS liaison

 then…

 and…

 the CPPS liaison emails the request to the nearest service centre where the offender is to be released, and a probation officer or service manager makes an assessment on the proposed employment

Note:

The employment verification check is undertaken and completed within two working days of the employment verification form being originally sent from Work and Income to the CPPS liaison, not within two days of the service centre receiving the form

• the request is returned by email to the originating Work and Income officer promptly (within two working days from receipt of the employment verification form by the CPPS liaison), and
• a copy of the completed check is copied to the CPPS liaison email address in order to ensure that timeliness has been met.