All employees can access great savings from monthly discounts on high street shops and restaurants, pubs, holidays, and 2-for-1 cinema tickets.
You can park your car in provided spaces outside our homes, where available.
If you recommend a friend for a support worker role (such as in activities, maintenance, domestic and catering) you will both receive a payment of £150.
All employees receive free uniforms for the job, apart from employees in management and administrative roles.
Exemplar Health Care’s pension scheme is offered through the Government's auto-enrolment scheme which sees everyone aged between 22 and the state pension age automatically enrolled after their first three months on the job.
The scheme, NOW Pensions, sees colleagues have up to 5% of their earnings (depending on their salary) put into their pension. Exemplar contributes an additional 3%. This combined saving will go into your pension pot for when you reach retirement.
Each new starter has a DBS check paid for by Exemplar Health Care.
Exemplar Health Care offers various leadership programmes, and apprenticeships through the Government levy scheme. We also have a trainee nursing associate programme for carers who wish to progress in their care career.
All registered nurses with Exemplar get access to the RCNi training platform, which aims to improve the skills and knowledge of nurses and nursing. The platform contains more than 200 RCN-accredited clinical CPD learning modules.
All Exemplar colleagues can access immediate counselling services, free of charge. Our wellbeing partner, Care First, gives confidential, professional telephone counselling, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Colleagues can also access tips and guidance on wellbeing and occupational health on our staff mobile app, MyExemplar.
Before starting work, all new employees attend a four-day induction programme, which includes theory and practical sessions on health, safety, and Exemplar’s own procedures.
Exemplar reimburses nurses for the cost of renewing their Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration (NMC PIN) once they have been employed by the company for 12 months. Here’s a form to claim back your NCM PIN cost.
View claim formAll registered nurses with Exemplar get access to the RCNi training platform, which aims to improve the skills and knowledge of nurses and nursing. The platform contains more than 200 RCN-accredited clinical CPD learning modules.
Find out more£500 will be paid to the referrer when the referred nurse completes their three month induction and training period. £1,000 will be paid when the referred nurse completes a successful six month probation period. Here’s a form to claim your referral.
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Updated: 13 May 2020
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues, the safety of our residents and colleagues remains our number one priority.
We’re continuing to implement precautionary measures to reduce the risk across our homes, which you read about here on our website.
Our Home Managers are in regular contact with their local IPC team and we’re reviewing our guidance and policies daily, in line with the Government’s advice.
We understand that this is a worrying and unprecedented time and we will aim to keep you up-to-date and fully informed with all of our plans and procedures.
Visits
We continue to limit visitors to our homes to essential staff only. We appreciate that this might be difficult for many of our residents and their family and friends, and our colleagues are working with them to keep in regular contact. Wifi is available in all of our homes and we’ve purchased 60 new iPads so that people can keep in touch via video calls.
Infection control
We continue to implement strict signing in and out procedures across our homes, and all colleagues have received up-to-date training about infection prevention and control, including specific training about Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Our homes have increased their daily cleaning schedules and are equipped with adequate supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the coming months, to ensure that everyone living and working in our homes stays safe and well.
Supporting our residents
Our colleagues are doing a fantastic job of ensuring that our residents can continue to live as fulfilled lives as possible.
Each of our homes is supported by a dedicated Activities Team, that is working creatively to plan meaningful activities for our residents.
We’ve also launched our ‘Every Day Letters’ campaign which asks school children to send letters, poems and drawings for our colleagues and residents. We’ve had an incredible response so far and they’re really brightening up people’s day.
Supporting our colleagues
We know that we couldn’t do any of this great work without our incredible colleagues, which is why we’ve created 'We Care' - a package of additional support at this difficult time.
It includes free meals for all colleagues during their shifts, a free food ordering service, financial support for colleagues whose children get free school meals, travel assistance and flexible holiday arrangements.
We hope that this additional support will help our key workers to continue to come to work and ease some of the additional stress and worries at this unprecedented time.
Making a referral
Many of our homes are still taking referrals, where possible and appropriate, and we hope that this will help to ease the pressure on the local NHS and wider system.
For more information or to make an enquiry, please contact our friendly Referrals Team on 01709 565777 or email referrals@exemplarhc.com.
Further information
If you have any questions or concerns about Coronavirus, please contact your home manager in the first instance, or email us at enquiries@exemplarhc.com (Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00).
John Whitehead
CEO
Helen Baxendale
Clinical Director
