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UK Agency Medical Staff Renewal of Important Documents

Renewal of important documents

It is vitally important to ensure you compliance documentation is up to date, and valid. This ensures that we are able to assign shifts to you. With the use of the staff shift app, navigating compliance documentation is easier than ever. Please login to your staffshift profile, click compliance passport, and follow the guidelines.

We have included tips and information here to ensure you have everything you need to stay 100% current.

Summary of documents that need to be renewed for UK candidates

Below is a summary of the annual renewals required, we do break them down a bit futher into this blog:

  • Documents which need to be renewed

  • Proof of Professional Registration

  • Right to Work

  • DBS Check and Certificate Process

  • Practical Life Support (Basic Life Support and Immediate Life Support)

  • Manual Handling

  • Additional Online Training

Proof of professional registration

Our Compliance Team is able to handle your NMC (The Nursing and Midwifery Council) and GMC (The General Medical Council) admin for you, check your status, and book your training. 

Contact our Compliance Team instantly via WhatsApp 0772 3559 602 or email them at advisors@a24group.com 

RTW (right to work)

UK & Irish Citizens 

Please provide evidence of RTW upon registration. We recommend that you keep us updated with your latest proof of RTW. 

New uIDentify - Digital ID 

Complete your RTW effortlessly with the New uIDentify - Digital ID verification service.  

This is a new secure service, approved by the home office available to all British and Irish citizens holding a valid passport.

How does it work?

You will be provided a link with temporary access to a secure Application (Android & iOS) that you will be able to download on your personal mobile phone (This information does not get stored on your mobile device once the validation is completed). 

The app will prompt further actions that will allow you to: 

  • Validate your passport authenticity 

  • Check your Liveliness 

  • Summary Report – Review 

Request a digital ID link from your consultant via WhatsApp or Email

Foreign Nationals (BRP card holders or EU settlement status holders)

Send us a color copy of one of the following documents: 

  • Passport 

  • Visa 

  • BRP (Biometric Residency Permit) 

  • Please provide us with your share code that is no older than 30 days 

Please take a clear picture of all documents and send is to us instantly via WhatsApp 0772 3559 602 

DBS check and certificate process

DBS Check and Certificate Process. Find out how the DBS Certificate Process works and how to submit your DBS Certificate to our Compliance team.

  

DBS (CRB) Annual Enhanced Disclosure Certificate

Due to the nature of work being applied for (with vulnerable adults/children), all agency applicants are required to evidence an Enhanced Criminal Record Check (if they reside in England they will require a DBS.

To uphold your active DBS registration and ensure portability, you have to maintain your DBS update service by logging into your DBS update service registration portal to check payment/bank information is accurate and correct.

If in Scotland they will require a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

To uphold your active PVG registration, please ensure you have registered your disclosure on the PVG scheme and have added A24 Group as an interested party.

We are required to sight the original documents (physical sighting) and therefore this could be done by either receipt of: 

Or, upload via your Staffshift profile.  

Or, send us your certificate via WhatsApp  

Note: We will not be able to accept e-mailed copies of a DBS certificate if it is not verified.

Practical life support

  • Basic Life Support 

  • Immediate Life Support

    We require evidence of Immediate Life Support training completed within the last 12 months. This is a client specific training required in line with your job profile where restrictive interventions may be required

If you have not supplied this information then you can submit these documents via Staffshift by uploading it Here or WhatsApp.

Manual Handling

Manual Handling includes Patient handling including the use of moving aids (equipment). 

Our training and qualification records should include as many certificates as possible - the more certificates we have on file, the broader your employment opportunities are. 

Please take a picture of all care-related certificates and send is to us instantly via WhatsApp 0772 3559 602 

Practical Training

Health & Safety Group, Nationwide

Train Healthcare, Nationwide

Trained-up, London

Additional online training - practical manual handling

In order to meet the demands of most of our clients, the A24Group of Companies have negotiated preferential rates/fees with bespoke training companies, which offer training aligned with the UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF).  

These courses include Mandatory, statuary training, and clinical and course training/care certificate.

If you require assistance or guidance do not hesitate to contact our trained compliance team: 

Tel: 0871 873 3309 | WhatsApp: 0772 3559 602