On contacting one of our administrative staff, you will undergo a short telephone interview to find out your background. After reviewing your application form, you will then be invited for a face-to-face interview and asked to bring along with you evidence of all professional qualifications, professional and mandatory training, details of health record to verify your physical and mental health as well as immunization status and history. We also ask for a proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. All staff must undergo an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure which must be kept as part of their record before any assignment is undertaken. No staff will be employed unless all relevant documentations is in place. We will also require 2 references, one being a current or most recent employer of not more than three months duration.
Finally, you will be required to provide 2 recent passport sized photographs (1 for your file and the other for creating your ID badge). We encourage you to be as honest and volunteering at all times when providing us with information. All staff will be required to sign up to and adhere to our terms and conditions of employment. You are required to keep us regularly updated of any changes in your circumstances especially those that will affect your employment with us.
Upon the successful completion of the recruitment process, you will be issued with an identity badge that must be worn at all times. It is our requirement that all staff attend shifts normally in the agency’s uniform where appropriate. This is for identification purposes and should be worn with your ID badge at all times. Essentially, our service users and clients should expect to deal with an appropriately dressed, clean polite staff who arrives for his/her shift on time and carries out their tasks as stipulated.
Notice of Changes
Staff must contact the agency immediately for any discrepancies with their shift, i.e. double booking, cancellation or any changes that occur when you arrive for duty. Staff must notify the agency before leaving a shift if the decision is taken to send them home, for whatever reason.
Equal Opportunity at Work
Health Personnel is committed as an equal opportunities employer and we Practice the Equal Pay Act (1970), recognise the Sex Discrimination Act (1975), the Race Relations Act (1976), the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000, and the Disability Discrimination Act (2000). We require that all our staff do not discriminate on the grounds of Creed, colour, race, political preference, sexual preference, ethnic background, Disability of whatever nature, age, marital status or gender. Health Personnel’s administrative functions will not require information about staff, or service users that will form the basis for discrimination on the grounds mentioned above. Any information of a potentially discriminatory nature will only be sought and kept if it is of a legal requirement.
Electronic Payslip (Saving our planet campaign)
Due to the devastation caused by deforestation to our environment, our payroll department has taken the initiative to provide pay advice to all our staff by electronic mail. We pay our staff every two weeks on the basis that they submit their time-sheets before 11 a.m. every Monday to be paid that Friday. All staff are required to provide us with their email addresses on the application form.
Timesheet Endorsement
Health Personnel Limited has implemented an ongoing system of internal controls in order to minimise the processing of invalid or inaccurate timesheets. We require that time sheets be completed at the end of each shift worked and signed by a senior member of your nursing staff. Please retain your copy of each time sheet for your records and return the other copies to the nurse. Any falsification of time-sheets by staff is regarded as a disciplinary offence.
Recommend a friend
You can get a taxable bonus of £50 when you recommend a friend who works a minimum of 5 shifts within a 60-day period. We will pay you a bonus of £50 each time you recommend someone. If you recommend more than 5 people within 2 months and each works a minimum of 5 shifts within a 60-day period, you get a taxable bonus of £75 for each one that meets the requirements. There is no limit to the number of people you can recommend to us. All you need to do is ask them to call us on 02088815958, or fill in our application form quoting reference ABX50 with your name on the last page of the application form.
Health Personnel is a member of United Kingdom Home Care Association.
