Information about employers and higher education institutions (HEIs) registration responsibilities.
Employers and higher education institutions (HEIs) have responsibilities for supporting registration.
This includes nominating signatories to act on their behalf, verifying and endorsing applications, and assessing competence through employer assessment.
What are signatories?
Employers and HEIs must nominate appropriate people to act as signatories. Signatories endorse applications and help keep the Register up–to-date.
There are three types of signatories:
- lead signatories – someone in a senior role with access to HR records. This role will have overall responsibility for the registration process on behalf of the organisation, including endorsing any application.
- additional signatories – nominated by a lead signatory, they can endorse applications sent to them.
- competence assessors – registered managers, or if there isn’t a registered manager at an organisation the Responsible Individual can nominate somebody. A lead or additional signatory might have this role too.
Find out more about signatories, and what signatories need to do at each step of the registration process.
Endorsing and verifying applications
Lead and additional signatories can endorse and verify applications.
Endorsement
Endorsement means checking that an applicant’s information is accurate. As a signatory, when you endorse someone, you’re confirming you don’t have any issues with their character, competence or fitness to practise, and they’re suitable for registration.
Find out more about the endorsement process, why endorsements are necessary and what steps endorsers must follow.
Verifying documents
Verifying means that you check an applicant’s original documents, such as their ID or qualifications.
To verify, you should write the following on photocopies of each document:
- write your full name, job title, email address and the date
- sign your name
- write “I have seen the original and this is a true copy”.
The applicant should then submit the verified photocopies to us through their SCWonline account.
Employer assessment
One of the routes to register is called employer assessment. We ask registered managers to confirm the suitability of an applicant, having assessed them against a list of competencies.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to questions employers and signatories often ask on our FAQs page.
Recruitment agencies
Take a look at our useful information for recruitment agencies.