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Background screening for schools and academies

Ease the burden of slow, manual background checks

Automated background checks enabling schools and academies to complete verify candidates in days!

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Automated, fast and global background checks

Compliant

Basic, standard and enhanced DBS checks

DBS checks are vital for companies looking to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students. It's important to carefully consider what check is appropriate for each role.

LEss Manual admin

Education and qualifications checks

Verify that the people you’re interested in hiring have the qualifications they say they have with our instant HMRC check.

A seamless hiring process

Integrations

Integrating directly with your ATS and HRIS, we ensure a swift, efficient journey from initial application to final approval, getting top-tier talent starting faster.

“Zinc has saved MyTutor an equivalent of 13 business days worth of time in a 6 month period.”

Mike Cole

People Operations & Experience Lead

Save time

Simple hiring journey

Getting potential employees through the recruitment process can be time consuming. Using an automated background check provider streamlines this process, saving you precious time.

Basic DBS checks take on average 5 days and our Enhanced DBS checks take on average 8 days. This simplified verification process could save you over 100 hours compared to standard processes.

Checks for all trusted education institutions

Our range of 12 off-the-shelf background checks are a simple and easy starting point for HR teams.

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regulation & compliance

No need to fear regulation

By using Zinc your organisation maintains a robust single central record and adheres strictly to safer recruitment standards to support schools and educational institutions in safeguarding children and young people effectively.

Zinc ensures compliance with the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) to ensure that any candidate applying to work within your institution meets the suitability criteria within the regulation and by providing thorough background screening services.

Candidate experience

Simple hiring journey

Zinc’s automated candidate friendly journey, provides a quick and easy way for candidates to be verified.

This not only speeds up the hiring process, it also fosters a positive candidate experience, helping universities, schools and academies attract the right people.

Zinc is a certified IDVT (Digital identity document validation technology) provider

What are the benefits of IDVT to you?

Almost instant validation of ID and current address

Speeds up the hiring process compared to manual ID verification

Supports your legal obligation of checking applicant's right to work

Loved by education institutions

“Hiring managers are genuinely excited about the move to Zinc. It’s already transforming the way they work, making processes simpler and more efficient. Very few IT systems at Busy Bees have landed so smoothly — iCIMS and now Zinc stand out as real success stories.”

Natalie McGuinness

Head of Talent Acquisition

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“When you’re in HR, there are so many things that need your time. I don't have to worry about background checks which are so compliant heavy, especially if you’re doing right to work checks in the UK. Zinc takes away the work and makes it easy.”

Becca Okyere

People Operations Manager

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“My favourite thing about Zinc is its seamlessness. The combination of the automation, the time saving and the fact that once I click send to the person, I know they'll understand what to do. It's clear and the user experience is great, both for the person who's being checked but also for us on the other side.”

Lauren Benson-Armer

People Lead

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“Given the size of the company is 250 and the number of people looking after referencing is 2, it’s really important to us that our tech stack works efficiently so anything we can automate we usually do. And the way that Zinc has helped with that is brilliant.”

Mike Cole

People Operations & Experience Lead

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I needed something that I could rely on to do thorough background checks. You can't cut corners on recruitment in education. If you can't do the safeguarding at recruitment, then you're letting unsafe people into the organisation. I needed something that I could depend on, and I’m 100% confident Zinc is that.