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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As Coronavirus (COVID-19) becomes more widespread, we want to assure you that the safety of our residents, colleagues and visitors is our number one priority.
As experts in specialist care for those with complex needs, our service users fall into the higher risk category within the general population, and we are therefore taking every possible step to minimise the risk to them and our colleagues.
We’ve implemented a number of precautionary measures, some of which are shared below, and are closely monitoring the situation and following the Government’s guidelines and 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.
For the latest advice, please visit the Government website.
Visits
We are asking for your help in having no visitors, except healthcare professionals, into our homes without prior agreement from the home manager, which will be assessed on a case by case basis.
We appreciate that this might be difficult for many of our residents and their family and friends, and we will continue to work with them to ensure that they can keep in regular contact. Wifi is available in all of our homes and new iPads are being rolled out so that people can keep in touch via video calls.
Anyone entering an Exemplar Health Care building must complete a screening questionnaire and wash and dry their hands before entry. We will not allow entry to anyone who is displaying the symptoms of the virus, has a temperature of above 37.8 or has recently travelled to a category one country.
Infection control
We have put measures in place to ensure that all colleagues have received up-to-date training about infection prevention and control, and specific training about Coronavirus. This includes an awareness of the necessary precautions to help prevent the spread of the infection, such as regular hand washing and covering coughs or sneezes with a tissue.
Our homes have also increased their daily cleaning schedules and we’re providing extra supplies of cleaning products, to ensure that everyone living and working in our homes stays well.
Staffing
We have set out a contingency plan should our staffing levels be affected by the virus.
We are confident that we have plenty of resources to ensure that our residents can continue to receive the care that they need, should staff be absent from work due to Coronavirus.
We have a large reliable team of bank and agency staff, as well as non-direct care and central team colleagues, who are in place to support our homes if needed.
Further information
Each of our home managers is in regular contact with their local IPC team and we’re checking Government guidance daily and cascading any updates.
There is also a Coronavirus Information Board in each home which shares the latest updates and news.
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