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Published by iainja001, 2018-09-12 07:33:53

Quarterly Newsletter September 2017 in pdf

Again, it is an expectation at Healthcare Plus that you
know and incorporate these codes into your everyday
work. They must be remembered and adhered to at all
3. Your PVGs Healthcare Plus Recruitment
times and again, you could well be asked by a Care
Inspectorate Inspector if you know these!
A few carers PVGs will need to be updated later on
this year (2017) for those carers whose PVGs are
6. SSSC News - Open Badges
coming up to 2 years old, and we will contact those
In the last edition of our quarterly newsletter, we wrote of you who will need to complete a PVG update
to advise you about the Open Badge Scheme, a new form, allowing enough time for you to complete
initiative from the SSSC. these, as we will need to countersign and send off
for you.
The Open Badge Scheme is an opportunity for you,
once registered with the SSSC, to continue with your We have the forms in the office and we can post
learning and development and whereby you will be able these out to you. This task needs to be completed,
to obtain digital certificates, recognising your learning as part of the Safer Recruitment Practice Policies
and achievement within the Care industry and with the and Procedures recently produced by the Care
SSSC. If you can demonstrate that you've learned from Inspectorate, and which Healthcare Plus
the materials produced by the SSSC, you can earn an Recruitment adhere to, to ensure that you and we
Open Badge. remain compliant in the work that we carry out.

There are 110 Open Badges to be earned by yourselves 4. Forthcoming events
through the SSSC, managed online by yourselves and
We mentioned in our last newsletter that we would
your learning experiences can also be uploaded onto
like to have a get-together one afternoon with you
the internet.
all and I would like to know how many of our carers
I have included with this newsletter an example of the would like this to happen. We don't often have a
Safer Administration of Medication Modules, for you to chance to do this due to everyone's busy work and
look at and consider. life schedules, but it would be great if we could all
meet up for a drink and food if you would like to!
If you would like to start your Open Badge Scheme with
the SSSC, please visit: www.badges.sssc.uk.com for One suggestion is for me to hold a barbeque at our
further information on how to register yourselves and house in the garden in the summer (and I hopefully
start the process. Good luck! won't poison you all!) or if you would prefer, we
could meet in a public house for a few hours. Your
PVG Disclosure Scotland choice!

The PVG Disclosure Service has recently altered their Please can you let me know if you would like for us
opening times and contact numbers and these are: to hold a social event and I will happily organise this
with you all. Please let me know your preferred
Telephone Number: 03000 2000 40
month and any possible venues that you think
would be suitable. We need to try and find a venue
Opening times:
that would be suitable for all and centrally located, if
Monday-Thursday 8.30am to 5pm possible.

Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm

If you would like to contact the PVG regarding your
certification, please also see their website:

www.disclosurescotland.co.uk or you can email them
on: [email protected]

If you need to discuss any issues regarding your SSSC


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