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

Documents and Information Required

Medacs Healthcare provides Locum Doctors to the NHS in England and Wales through the National Framework Agreement for Medical Locums, negotiated by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency. A key responsibility of an approved supplier to the agreement is adherence to the strict compliance criteria that allows a risk managed service to be provided.

To enable you to be put forward for work we must have received:

• A fully completed Medacs Healthcare Registration Form
• Original documentary evidence of eligibility to work in the UK
• 2 Recent photos
• Evidence of immunisation status
• Your up to date CV
• 2 references from your most recent jobs in the last 12 months
• Any basic and higher qualifications
• Evidence of your recent GMC/GDC certificate
• An Enhanced Medacs Healthcare CRB Disclosure
• A fully completed Medacs Healthcare Occupational Health Declaration Form.

As we appreciate that original documents are very important to you, please be assured that all certificates etc. forwarded to us by post will be returned to you via registered mail.

Changes to Personal and Professional details

In order to ensure that all your personal and professional details held by Medacs Healthcare remain up to date, you must inform Medacs Healthcare in writing of changes to any of the following:

• Name
• Address
• Bank details
• GMC Registration/Fitness to Practice

We will regularly request updates of the following:

• Additional Qualifications
• Employing History
• Referees
• Career Progression/Training
• Appraisal Details
• Right toWork
• CRB Disclosure
• Occupational Health

Sickness and Absence

If you accept work from Medacs Healthcare but later discover you cannot attend, you must inform us immediately to enable us to advise your place of work and search for alternative cover. If you have to leave the clinical area before the end of a shift, you must ensure you inform both Medacs Healthcare and your supervising Consultant/Senior Doctor. For your own health and for those in your care, it is important that you are fit to practice on each assignment. You are required to declare you are fit to practice before each assignment. You must not declare that you are fit to practice if you are suffering from any of the following conditions:

• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Rash

Always inform Medacs Healthcare if you become injured or diagnosed with any condition.

Pregnancy

If you are pregnant and believe there may be a risk that your pregnancy could be adversly affected by you carrying out the duties of the post we request that you inform Medacs Healthcare as soon as possible.

Personal Professional Indemnity Insurance

The NHS Clinical Negligence Scheme pays only for cases of medical negligence that arise in NHS Hospitals. It does not provide support in a variety of other situations, including criminal cases, GMC or disciplinary hearings and good Samaritans acts. Also, there are positions which Medacs Healthcare may offer you for which personal indemnity insurance is mandatory. In all cases we strongly recommend that all Doctors take out and maintain their own Medical Insurance.