Nottinghamshire Carers Association
Carer Friendly Employer Quality Award | Nottingham
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The Carers in Employment Initiative
The Carers in Employment initiative is commissioned by Nottingham County Council. Our Carer Friendly Employer Quality Award is achieved by considering your organisation’s current understanding of unpaid Carers and how you can better support them to remain in work.
Working towards the Award
We will look at your current:
Understanding & Identification of Carers and caring
- Gain an understanding of what caring can look like for the individual as every Carer’s experience is unique to individual circumstance
- How Carers are identified at work, or how could they be
- What are the barriers discouraging Carers from identifying themselves
Policies & procedures to support Carers at work
- Is there a recognition of Carers in policies & procedures
- Carers involved in discussions surrounding support in the workplace
- Compliance with current statutory obligations
- Managers and supervisors aware of organisational policies and support
- Carers Passport
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Support for your organisation
- Training your Carers Champion and Managers
- Resources to support Carers Champions
- Peer-to-peer support/Carers Network
- Access to information about support at work
- Access to external support and services
How workplace support is communicated
- Workplace support, policies & procedures communicated to all staff
- Communication tools
- Promotional materials
- Wider business community
On Completion Of The Award You Will Receive
- A Carer Friendly Employer logo
- A certificate to display in the workplace
- Promotion of your achievement to local media and via our social media channels
- A case study for inclusion on our website
- Support materials – to promote your Carer friendly status and engage your employees
- Local & national signposting to help in the community
- Networking with other Carer champions
- Monitoring to review how the organisation and staff are benefitting
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Testimonial
Emma Alder (third left), Quality and Clinical Governance Lead Nurse and Named Nurse for Safeguarding receiving the Carer Friendly Employer Quality Award from Jayne Davies (centre) said: “Thank you to Jayne and NCA for all their training and support. At PICS our core value is that we care, and for us that means caring about our colleagues as much as we care about our patients and communities.”
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