Candidates benefit from superb support and high-quality training
All Verve Health candidates are fully vetted and undergo a full enhanced DBS check annually. We also make sure that each candidate’s recruitment compliance is kept up to date for their duration of employment with us.
Every Verve Health candidate benefits from extensive, ongoing training and development programmes to equip them with the very best knowledge and ensure all skills and practices are up-to-date and in line with the needs of our clients.
In other words, the quality of our candidates is more than a claim. It’s a quantifiable fact.
By getting to know your needs in depth, we make sure that we match the individual skills, experience and expertise of our candidates with your specific job requirements.
By working with Verve Health, you’ll be working with a team who all share the same belief that your staff should be:
- Compassionate
- Committed
- Empathetic
- Non-judgemental
- Understanding
- Dedicated to helping people live as independently
as possible
Ultimately, we all have the same aim: to provide a very high standard of care. Always.
Training with Verve
It is our minimum requirement that all our staff are trained and certified in the following:
- Mental Health Awareness
- Basic Life Support
- Safe Handling of Medicines Level 2
- Activities of Daily Living
- Safeguarding Adults Level 2
- Equality and Diversity
- Health & Safety Awareness
- Lone Working
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Move & Assist
- Food Hygiene & Nutrition
- Fire Safety
- Dysphagia Awareness
- Data Protection
- Challenging Behaviour
- Learning Disability Awareness
- Mental Capacity Act including DOLs
From this base of certifications and competencies, we then tailor any additional requirements to the needs of each of our clients. Some examples of these include, but are not limited to:
- CPI Safety Interventions Foundation training (led by our in-house certified instructors)
- Dementia Awareness
- End of Life Care
- Autism Awareness
- Sepsis, NEWS & Vital Signs
- Prevention and Management of Pressure Sores
- Tracheostomy Care
- Diabetes Awareness
- Safeguarding Children
- Oral Health
- Allergy Awareness
- Stoma Care
- Catheterisation
- Stroke Awareness
- Epilepsy Awareness
- Bipolar Awareness
- PEG Feeding
- Parkinson’s Awareness
- Wound Care and Management
Recruitment Process
STAGE ONE
Pre-screening stage
- CV sent
- Pre-screen CV
- Telephone conversation
STAGE TWO
Interview and assessment
- Telephone interview
- Application form completed, including work history and right to work documentation
- Face-to-face interview
STAGE THREE
Pre-employment checks
- Verification of professional registration qualification (if applicable)
- DBS application
- Reference checks
- Right to work checks
STAGE FOUR
Clearance received
- DBS clearance received
- References received
STAGE FIVE
Training
- Enrolled onto our tailored training course
FINAL
Registered with Verve Health
- Training complete
- Able to request work
- Ongoing support and monitoring from the Verve Health management team
- Ongoing training as and when required
