Employer Case Studies

How the SCQF helped Aberlour Child Care Trust's Recruitment Process

Aberlour Child Care Trust is a Scottish Charity who work with and for children, young people and families who need additional support, to promote their development and well being. When the organisation was undertaking a job evaluation exercise they found the SCQF to be a beneficial tool in assisting with the process.

A representative for the organisation said,

"Within the recruitment process, Job Evaluation Panels have found the SCQF Framework useful in helping to understand how different qualifications relate to one another (SVQ and HNC for example). In addition, it has also been used to identify the level of qualification for each post advertised.

The SCQF Framework has also been used in the layout for job descriptions; all job descriptions for jobs with specific qualification requirements that can be measured using the SCQF Framework use the Framework levels.

"Prior to the job evaluation project, job descriptions might have said something like 'educated to degree level', or 'must have HNC in Social Care or SVQ 3'. They now read like this; 'qualified to SCQF level 7 (followed by an example of a relevant award at this level -such as HNC in Social Care)"

"Job descriptions are used in Aberlour not just for recruitment, but also for performance management, appraisal, job evaluation, identification of training needs, grievance/disciplinary matters, and workforce planning."

Arberlour Child Care Trust