Attachment 2 Persons required to undergo safety screening
The following provides a list of circumstances or persons where safety screening is required.
Other employees not involved in direct or patient contact may be required to undergo a Police check where the Manager certifies that the job requires consideration of any Police record before approving employment.
Note: The circumstances include either actual unsupervised contact with the specified client and patient categories in Attachment 1, or the potential for such unsupervised contact.
Organisations should adopt this listing and include the owner/s and/or proprietor/s, their representatives, board members and any other staff who because of their role would have unsupervised access, or the potential for access, to the specified client or patient categories:
- a prospective manager within the department, directly managing services to the specified client or patient categories
- a prospective direct contact employee, caregiver, volunteer or student to be placed within the department to provide services to the specified client and patient categories
- staff to be placed within the department from contract staffing organisations, to provide services to the specified client and patient categories
- existing departmental employees not already working in direct care areas prior to their promotion or transfer into jobs in client or patient contact areas
- any casual or relieving staff where there is contact with the specified client and patient categories.
- primary caregivers, as well as those who provide services providing personal care or assistance or those who are in a position of trust and responsibility with clients or patients from the specified categories. Caregivers include but are not limited to: foster parents, private board providers, home board providers, Interchange families, Adolescent Community Placement caregivers, YASS caregivers, Cottage Parent spouses/partners, co-habiters in foster care, private board, Adolescent Community placements, YASS placements; Family Options caregivers, lead tenants, all adult co-habiters in home based and residential care (including spouses/partners and children aged 18 and over), and other providers of home based care funded through Protective Services and/or SAAP.
- volunteers, including Honorary Probation Officers, Youth Attendance Order Program, Sessional Supervisors, Youth for Christ volunteers, Special Friends at Institutions, hosts, volunteers from community support groups and local citizens visiting human services facilities who take clients/patients on outings, Mental Health Auxiliaries, volunteers during strike action.
- any staff from a contractor who is contracted to provide services in Human Services facilities where there is contact with the specified client and patient categories, such as security staff and cleaners.