General Data Protection Regulations:
Any personal data, supplied with this application, will be reviewed by interview panel members for selection purposes, and may be retained for auditing purposes. Should you be selected, the data will form part of your personnel file. Please note that equality and diversity monitoring data is anonymous and is not shared with panel members or third parties. This data is highly restricted, held securely and individuals are not identifiable.
To progress this application we may need to disclose the information we receive from you to others, (including other public bodies, other central government departments, or our authorised agents). Information (including personal data) may also be released on request, but will only be released if permitted by law.
Privacy Statement/GDPR:
The NSTA is required to keep and process information about you for normal recruitment and employment purposes. The personal information we hold and process will be used only for our management and administrative use, or to comply with our legal obligations. We will hold and use it to enable us to run the company and manage our relationship with you effectively, lawfully and appropriately.
Much of the personal information we hold for recruitment and selection purposes will have been provided by you. The information we may collect and hold includes:
- Your application which includes your personal details such as name and contact details.
- Your curriculum vitae with details of your work experience to date
- Correspondence with, or about, you, for example letters to you confirming the outcome of a stage in the process
- Recruitment and selection assessment forms
Where we have collected your personal information for the purpose of your employment by the NSTA, we will normally retain it for a period of 6 years after you have left the NSTA. Personal information collected in the course of job applications will be held for up to 12 months from the date of application.
We also collect anonymised information that, under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, is deemed to be special category personal data. This includes:
- For the purposes of monitoring equality and diversity: disability, age, gender, nationality, race/ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation.
We may also need to share your personal information with the third-parties who are involved in the recruitment and selection process.
As set out in our general Privacy Notice, if, in the future, we intend to process your personal information for a purpose other than that for which it was collected, we will provide you with information on that purpose and any other relevant information.
Further personal data is required for employment and if you are successful in joining the NSTA we will also use your personal data to:
- comply with the terms of the employment contract we have with you
- perform our statutory functions
- comply with our legal obligations (for example, with respect to tax legislation) and to protect our legal position in the event of legal proceedings
- monitor and improve our performance as an employer (including with respect to diversity).
If you require further details of our data retention and processing policies please contact: nstarecruitment@nstauthority.co.uk