Will a police caution affect job in hospital?

[feliwpy]

I received a police caution 6 years ago for shoplifting during a time when I was under a lot of emotional and mental stress and had family problems. I was caught for taking some makeup from a store. Obviously since then, I have never reoffended and it is something that i am really not proud off and truly regret. However, I am applying for the position of a junior doctor in an NHS hospital and will need to undergo a CRB check. Do I need to diclose this caution ?
Will it show up on my CRB check, especially since it was 6 years ago? Also I am really worried whether a police caution will automatically disqualify me from being employed as a doctor? would be grateful if anyone can offer any useful information or advice. Thanks

[Ice.Maiden]

Cautions are now covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 so will become spent immediately (apart from conditional cautions which will become spent after 3 months). This means that if you are asked on an application form if you have a caution you can reply 'no'. For conditional cautions it would be after 3 months since the caution was issued, up until that time you would have to reply 'yes'.

This applies retrospectively so applies to anyone who has ever had a caution, irrelevant of when it was given.

However, this does not mean that it will not be disclosed on a CRB check. It will not normally be disclosed on a standard check but maybe disclosed on an enhanced check and on a subject access request - see below for more information.

Depending on the type of offence cautions are 'stepped down' after a set period of time (5 or 10 years). This basically means that they will only be visible to police staff and not other agencies who do checks. The exception to this is if a person is the subject of an Enhanced Disclosure and then if relevant it will be disclosed.

Even after five/ten years the caution can still be disclosed if you apply for certain types of jobs, i.e. police, teacher, or jobs working with children and vulnerable adults. It will be disclosed if it is relevant to the job you are applying for.

[Ice.Maiden]

Unfortunately, I think the last paragraph answers you, since you'd come into contact with the very people that the caution intends you to stay away from.
Personally, because of the nature of why and when it was issued, I think it's best to own up to it, before in-depth checks reveal it. It'd be far worse to start a job, and then to be found out and dismissed for falsifying your application.
I'm sure that prospective employers would consider the circumstances fairly. x

[bednobs]

hiya, are you training or working as a doctor at the moment? if so, how have they dealth with this on previous crb checks?

[tolia5]

how did you manage? I have similar situation and would like to know, thanks