Enhanced DBS Certificate Nurse & Advanced Practitioner

In order to meet our criteria, your original paper DBS certificate issued by Disclosure & Barring Services must be:

• An Enhanced DBS certificate, meaning 5 fields are all requested.
• Issued within the last 3 years. If you are on the DBS Update Service, we still need to see the original certificate. If you’re on the Update Service, please tick the consent box when you upload your DBS to Lantum so we can check your certificate number.
• From England, not Scotland or Ireland. This is due to other countries, including Scotland and Ireland, keeping their own Children's and Vulnerable Adults' Barred Lists. You will be working in England, so it must be relevant to England.
  
• Clear and with readable image(s), showing all 4 corners of the page. We cannot accept certificates where part of the page has been cropped.

If you have convictions or cautions on your DBS certificate, this will need to be reviewed with further information. For example, we will need to see two references if your DBS states a caution or conviction before we can accept this. We may also need you to provide evidence from the NMC that they are aware of any caution or conviction.

Please see example below:

DBS certificates stating Covid/Covid-19:

All DBS certificates that state 'Covid/Covid-19' in the 'position applied for' section are no longer acceptable, regardless of when they were issued, and expire on 31 December 2022. We no longer offer Covid-19 sessions and the Coronavirus Act 2020 provisions are no longer enforced. This means you will have to apply for a new enhanced DBS or upload one that does not state Covid/Covid-19.  

Applying for a new Enhanced DBS certificate

Lantum is not an employment agency nor your employer so it might be quicker to request a new Enhanced DBS from your employer. However, our Clinical Governance Team does offer to help you with an Enhanced DBS application via uCheck. This is for GPs who are registered with a Lantum account and are able to go through the Digital ID verification process. 

For more information, please read our FAQs here.

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DBS Update Service

The DBS Update Service was introduced on June 17th 2013 by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

When you receive a new DBS certificate, you can pay for a subscription to be on the DBS Update Service within 30 days of receiving it. When you are on the Update Service, you no longer need to apply for a new DBS every 3 years, as long as you keep your original certificate. 

When you have registered, this means you can:

• take your certificate from one job to the next
• give employers permission to check your certificate online, and see who has checked it
• add or remove a certificate

We recommend you use a reliable payment method, as the Update Service has a yearly fee. If you do not pay the fee, you will have to apply for a new DBS certificate.

Please note, the Update Service does not keep a copy of your original certificate and only gives a brief overview of whether anything has changed. Therefore, the original certificate is still needed alongside the Update Service to show what information was included in the original check, e.g. all 5 fields were requested.

To read more about the DBS Update service, click here.

To perform a status check on DBS Update Service, please click here.

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When all three of your core documents (CV, passport and DBS) have been approved, the Clinical Governance Team will check any relevant governing body you are registered on for account approval.

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Customer support

If you ever experience any technical issues or have questions, please don't hesitate to contact the Customer Support team here at Lantum