Staff Handbook

• Overview
• What Can We Offer You
• Your First Placement
• Documents and Information Required
• Criminal Records Bureau Disclosures
• Immunisation Requirements
• Timesheets and Payroll
• Your Responsibilities
• Health and Safety
• Moving and Handling
• Safeguarding Children
• Dealing with Allegations of Abuse
• Reporting Handling and Management of Complaints
• Additional Information
• Useful Contacts

Code of Practise When Lone Working

If a situation arises where you are required to work on your own with a member of the public, try and follow the suggestions below:

• Always carry a means of contact, i.e. mobile phone or pager and let someone know where you are going, how long you will be and how you are getting there and back
• If you are in a building on your own, use the door lock to ensure that no one could enter the premises without your knowledge. Make security staff aware you are in the premises
• If you will be working in a Trust where no other member of staff would be situated, let someone know where you are and what you are doing, how long you are going to be on your own and try to carry a means of contact i.e. mobile phone. Consider pre planning an incoming mobile call to check you are alright
• Before beginning your job, check the hospital procedures