Your CV and cover letter will be reviewed by the Manager and their decision to progress you to the next level will be based on the information you provide in your application form and CV.

Preparing your C.V. please ensure it contains the following information:-

• Personal details: - name/title/address/contact number/email address

• Educational qualifications: stating the grades obtained and where and when they were attained. 

• Where a post has a specific qualification requirement and you possess an equivalent qualification please explain and provide evidence of how your qualification equates to meet that requirement

• Employment history – names and addresses of current and previous employers, employment dates, reasons for leaving and reasons for any gaps in employment, current salary.

You will be required to provide two referees on your application form.  The first referee must be your current or most recent employer or tutor if you are in full time education. 

References will be taken up if you are offered the role, unless you indicate otherwise on your application form.  If you have indicated a referee is not to be contacted, we will only make an approach once you have been offered the position and you have given your consent to contact them.

Please provide an email address for your employer/tutor.

Canvassing of Members, Officers or any Committee of the Council, directly or indirectly, for any appointment under the Council shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment under Douglas City Council’s Standing Order 121. 

This does not prevent an applicant from seeking further information on the post from Officers of the Department/Section or from contacting Members of the Council for reference purposes, other than those serving on the Committee or the Department involved.  No Member will seek support for any person for any appointment with the Council.

Douglas City Council is an equal opportunities employer, and we ask that you complete an equality and diversity form.  This information is anonymous, separated from your application, and used only for statistical purposes.

It is not part of the selection process and completing this section is optional and your participation helps the Council monitor the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policy, and we would appreciate your engagement.

Following the interview process the successful candidate will receive a formal Letter of Offer, which may be subject to any outstanding pre-employment checks i.e., medical examination, pre-employment screening, references, checking of qualifications.

Any offer of employment will only be made in writing.  No indication of any such offer will be inferred at interview.

Under the provisions of the Control of Employment Acts and the Regulations made thereunder, any person who is not an Isle of Man Worker requires a work permit issued by the Department of Enterprise before taking up employment or self-employment in the Isle of Man, except in the case of a few exempted employments.

There are nine separate ways that a person can be an “Isle of Man worker”.  An “Isle of Man worker” is an individual:

 a) Who was born in the Isle of Man

 b) Who has at any time been ordinarily resident in the Isle of Man for an unbroken period of at                              least 5 years’

 c) Who is the spouse or civil partner of an Isle of Man worker and is entitled to remain in the Island under           immigration law

 d) Who was the spouse or civil partner of an Isle of Man worker, was living in the Isle of Man immediately           before the death of the Isle of Man worker, and has lived in the Island ever since

 e) Who was the spouse or civil partner of an Isle of Man worker, had lived in the Isle of Man for an                    unbroken period of at least 3 years immediately before being divorced and has lived in the Island ever            since

 f) Whose parent is (or was immediately before death) an Isle of Man worker, if at the time of the child’s birth      the parent, or the parent’s spouse or civil partner, was serving in the armed forces

 g) Whose parent was born in the Isle of Man and lived in the Isle of Man for his or her first 5 years

 h) Whose grandparent was born in the Isle of Man and lived in the Isle of Man for his or her first 5 years

 i) Who:-

       (a) Was for an unbroken period of at least a year:

                     (i) under 23 years old

                     (ii) ordinarily resident in the Island

                     (iii) in full-time education

         (b) Has lived in the Isle of Man since the end of that period

         (c) Is the child of a person who during that period was:

                    (i) An Isle of Man worker

                   (ii) An exempt person in regular full-time employment

                 (iii) The holder of a work permit. References to relationships in this section of the guide include                              adoptive and step relationships

 Further information and contact details in relation to work permit queries can be sought from the following Isle of Man Government Work Permit website :

 Website -                Isle of Man Government Work Permit

 Telephone:             (01624) 682393

 Email:                    workpermit@gov.im

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 2001 (the Act), allows certain convicted persons who have not been reconvicted after certain lengths of time, to consider their convictions ‘spent.

The following paragraphs briefly summarise this legislation.  However, they should not be taken as an exhaustive explanation of the position and an applicant who received a sentence or was made subject to an order which is not included below should refer to the full text of the Act.

Under section 10 of the 2014 Act special rules apply where a person has been convicted of an offence and sentenced (anywhere in the world) to a term of custody where —

•  The sentence is excluded from rehabilitation by section 2 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 2001     (e.g. custody for a term exceeding 30 months);

•  The conviction is not a ‘spent’ conviction for the purposes of that Act; or

• ·The employment in question is excluded from the operation of that Act (e.g. doctors, accountants).

Any such conviction will be taken into consideration by the Work Permit Committee when determining an application for a Work permit.

A conviction may become spent when a specified period of time has elapsed since the conviction was originally imposed. This period of time, otherwise known as the rehabilitation period, varies depending on a number of factors.  

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Further information on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 2001 can be obtained from the:

Department of Home Affairs

Tromode Road

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man

IM2 5PA

 Tel.: (01624) 694300 or Website: www.gov.im/dha