Guides
How each application form works, what shortlisters look for, and where every fact comes from. Each guide opens the free check set up for its form.
NHS
- Band 3 supporting statement: what NHS Band 3 roles ask for
What Band 3 person specifications ask for in clinical support and admin roles, from NHS adverts and job profiles, and how to show each line.
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- Band 6 nurse supporting statement: show leadership
Plan a Band 6 nurse supporting statement with evidence of supervision, teaching and team responsibility, using a named specialist NHS pack.
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- Healthcare assistant supporting statement: cover each criterion
What healthcare assistant person specifications ask for on NHS Jobs, with the structure of an answer per criterion and where your evidence can come from.
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- Mental health support worker statement: role evidence
Plan a mental health support worker statement around therapeutic relationships, boundaries, teamwork and evidence from a named CAMHS advert.
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- NHS admin supporting information: cover each criterion
What NHS admin and clerical person specifications ask for, how NHS Jobs shortlisters use the boxes, and where your admin evidence can come from.
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- NHS Jobs supporting information: the 5,000-character boxes
How the essential and desirable criteria boxes on NHS Jobs work, what each box asks for, how answers are scored, and how long they can be.
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- NHS supporting information word count and character limits
5,000 characters per box on NHS Jobs, 1,500 words in two Trac guides, 500 and 250 words at NHS Lothian: the sourced limits for NHS applications.
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- NHS values in a supporting statement: show your evidence
Connect NHS values to actions from your experience, distinguish England's Constitution from local wording and plan evidence for your application.
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- Nurse Band 5 supporting statement: what posts ask for
What four Band 5 staff nurse person specifications ask for, with the NMC Code and the Band 5 profile, and how to show each line with an example.
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- Nursing associate supporting statement: define your role
Plan a nursing associate job statement with evidence of your training, responsibilities and care experience, for trainee or qualified posts.
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- Phlebotomist supporting statement: evidence for the role
Plan evidence of patient communication, accuracy and training for a phlebotomist supporting statement, with separate prompts for trainee posts.
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- Physiotherapist supporting statement: evidence for a job
Plan a physiotherapist job statement around assessment, rehabilitation and teamwork, with qualification, registration and placement evidence.
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- Trac supporting information: what to write and how long
The supporting information section on Trac application forms: where it sits, the word limits some employers set, and how to cover each criterion.
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Schools
- Cover supervisor supporting statement: classroom evidence
Plan a cover supervisor supporting statement with evidence of classroom routines, behaviour, safeguarding and feedback from a school pack.
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- Early years practitioner statement: evidence for a job
Plan an early years or nursery practitioner job statement with examples of play, development records, family communication and safe practice.
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- HLTA supporting statement: evidence for a school vacancy
Write an HLTA job supporting statement with evidence of class cover, learning support and teamwork, using a school pack to plan your examples.
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- Midday supervisor personal statement: what schools ask for
What midday and lunchtime supervisor person specifications ask for, the safeguarding checks, and how to show each criterion with an example.
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- School admin supporting statement: cover each criterion
What school office and admin person specifications ask for, the checks schools record for every member of staff, and how to show each line.
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- School business manager statement: finance and leadership
Plan a school business manager supporting statement with evidence of budget decisions, staff management and resources, matched to the vacancy.
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- SEN teaching assistant supporting statement: what schools score
What SEN and learning support assistant person specifications ask for, the SEND terms schools use, and how to show each criterion.
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- Teaching assistant supporting statement with no experience
How to evidence a teaching assistant person specification when you have not worked in a school: where your examples can come from and what counts.
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- Teaching assistant supporting statement: what schools score
What school person specifications ask of a teaching assistant, the Teaching Vacancies word limit, and how to show each criterion with an example.
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- Teaching job personal statement: the Teaching Vacancies form
The personal statement on the Teaching Vacancies form: the 1,500-word limit, the Teachers' Standards, and how to cover each criterion.
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Care and support work
- Care assistant supporting statement: cover each criterion
What three care assistant and care worker documents ask for, the checks they name, and how to show each criterion with your own example.
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- Residential support worker statement: children and care
Plan a residential support worker statement for work with children and young people, using a named council specification to organise evidence.
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- Senior care assistant statement: supervision evidence
Choose senior care assistant statement evidence for supervising staff, care planning and handovers, with clear limits on your responsibility.
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- Support worker supporting statement: cover each criterion
What a support worker person specification asks for, using one council's pack, the checks care employers in England must make, and how to show each criterion.
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Councils
- Council job supporting statement: how councils shortlist
How councils ask for a supporting statement, how they shortlist against the person specification, and how to cover each criterion.
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- Housing officer supporting statement: tenancy evidence
Plan a housing officer supporting statement with evidence of tenancy support, records and partnership work, using Torbay Council requirements.
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- Library assistant supporting statement: public service
Plan a library assistant supporting statement with customer service and digital help evidence, using application marks in Lambeth's pack.
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- Social work supporting statement: social workers and assistants
What councils ask of social workers and social work assistants, registration with Social Work England, and how to show each criterion.
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Universities
- Lecturer supporting statement: teaching and research
Plan a lecturer supporting statement around academic criteria, using an Essex teaching-focused template to plan evidence and documents.
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- Research assistant supporting statement: research evidence
Choose research assistant statement evidence for literature searches, methods and data, with application criteria from a Norland specification.
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- University job supporting statement: cover each criterion
How universities ask for a supporting statement, how panels shortlist against the person specification, and how to show each criterion.
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Any form
- AI in job applications: what UK employers say is allowed
NHS Employers, trust pages, Civil Service rules and Teaching Vacancies advice on AI in job applications, with the dates the pages give and the exact wording.
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- Career change supporting statement: transfer your evidence
Plan a career change supporting statement by matching previous work to new criteria, explaining your motivation and being clear about gaps.
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- Essential and desirable criteria: what they mean for shortlisting
What essential and desirable criteria are, how NHS Jobs and other employers score them, and how to show each one with an example from your own work.
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- How long should a supporting statement be?
What UK employers publish on length, by form: NHS Jobs, NHS Wales, Teaching Vacancies, the Civil Service, a university and a council, each with its source.
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- How shortlisting is scored: NHS, councils and the Civil Service
How shortlisters score a statement: the NHS Jobs tick, scales from two trusts, a council and a university, and a Civil Service scale of 1 to 7.
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- How to write a supporting statement for a job application
Read the person specification, answer each criterion with an example, keep to the limit: the steps, sourced from UK employers' own guidance.
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- Police staff supporting statement: evidence for the form
Write a civilian police staff supporting statement using the force role requirements, your own examples and the instructions in the application.
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- STAR method for a supporting statement: plan one example
Use situation, task, action and result to plan evidence for one supporting statement criterion, with prompts to clarify your own contribution.
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- Statement of suitability: the Civil Service personal statement
What the Civil Service asks for in a personal statement or statement of suitability, word limits some employers publish, and how it is scored.
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- Supporting statement vs cover letter: what each one is for
A supporting statement answers the person specification; a cover letter goes with a CV. When employers ask for each one, and what goes in it.
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- Supporting statement with no experience: find evidence
Write a supporting statement for your first job using evidence from study, volunteering and home responsibilities, while naming genuine gaps.
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- What is a person specification? Two real ones, annotated
A person specification lists what the employer scores at shortlisting. Two real NHS examples, with line counts and the assessed-by codes explained.
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