A Voluntary Sector Care Home
Recruitment
Here at Anderson’s our mission is to provide excellent care services for older people, ensuring that they have a good quality of life and that their safety and wellbeing is a priority.
- We strive to maintain a culture that is positive, healthy and supportive where all staff feel valued and can contribute to the development of Anderson’s.
- We provide comprehensive and ongoing training programmes so that staff are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to adequately care for our residents.
If you are looking for a place that is supportive, friendly and maintains high standards then Anderson’s could be the place for you. Whatever role you seek whether it is caring, housekeeping, catering or administration, and you are someone who is caring and has empathy with others, always carries out tasks with a positive attitude to a good standard and with a smile, shares our passion for enriching the lives of our residents, we will welcome you to Anderson’s with open arms!
At Anderson’s we strive to be as supportive and flexible as we can be when it comes to a career with us. We have people who have changed careers and moved into administration or housekeeping. Indeed, our own Home Manager commenced life at Anderson’s as a kitchen domestic!!
Caring is at the heart of what we do at Anderson’s, so why would you want to work in care?
Working in a care home as a carer is not an easy role, but it is an essential one and carries considerable responsibility. It involves a broad range of duties and tasks from client care responsibilities such as personal care to assisting in activities and even providing emotional support or simply companionship for the resident. Providing direct care to residents can, at times, be quite challenging both physically and mentally, and you can guarantee that two days will never be the same. When you have tough days, you always have your team around you to encourage and support you. The real joy that comes with the responsibility is the reward and satisfaction of making a positive difference to someone’s life and that is not just the resident themselves but their families and friends who feel happy and content that their family member is being very well looked after.
Anderson’s is a non-profit charity, to that end our funds are limited when it comes to showing our permanent members of staff our appreciation in ways other than a good “thankyou”. However we are always looking for opportunities to provide our employees with some benefits. In recent times we have been able to commence the following non-contractual benefits to our permanent employees, who become eligible to join after completion of their probationary period:-
Employee Assistance Scheme (EAP)
An EAP is a confidential employee benefit designed to help employees deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting their home life or work life, health and general wellbeing.
In addition to counselling support and advice, the EAP also offers a virtual library of wellbeing information with informative articles and self-help guides which provide support on a range of health and advisory issues, as well as instant guidance to aid an employee’s physical and mental health.
The EAP portal offers:
- Interactive health assessment providing personal tailor-made dietary tips and fitness plans
- Fitness and lifestyle advice, such as detoxing methods
- Four week self-help programmes
- Mini health checks
- Financial wellbeing articles
The EAP service operates 24/7 and is completely confidential.
Length of Service Award
The length of service award is to show recognition and appreciation to our employee’s for their commitment to Anderson’s. Through this award, we hope that our employees feel valued and appreciated.
Flowers
We know that all birthdays are “special” and we have great pleasure in sharing and celebrating (or commiserate depending!) those memorable milestones with a bouquet of flowers. We send flowers on an employee’s 21st, 40th, 50th … etc birthday.
We also send flowers as part of celebration of birth or, sadly, as an expression of sympathy at the sad loss of a loved one.
We advertise our vacancies on Indeed or Anderson’s Facebook page. Please refer to these sites for current vacancies. Click either logo below to go the website.
If you do have any queries with any of our vacancies advertised please contact:
Katie Anderson, HR Administrator
office@andersonselgin.co.uk / 01343 542281
Diane Hampton, HR Manager
hr@andersonselgin.co.uk / 01343 542281
As part of any recruitment process, the Employer collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The Employer is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
What information does the Employer collect?
The Employer collects a range of information about you.
This includes:
- your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number.
- details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history.
- whether or not you have a disability for which the Employer needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.
- information about your entitlement to work in the UK.
The Employer may collect this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or resumes, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews.
The Employer may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers, information from employment background check providers and information from criminal records checks.
The Employer will seek information from third parties only once a job offer to you has been made and will inform you that it is doing so.
Data will be stored in a range of different places, including on your application record, in HR management systems and on other IT systems (including email).
Why does the Employer process personal data?
The Employer needs to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It may also need to process your data to enter into a contract with you.
In some cases, the Employer needs to process data to ensure that it is complying with its legal obligations. For example, it is required to check a successful applicant’s eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.
The Employer has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows the Employer to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate’s suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job.
The Employer may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
The Employer may process special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation or religion or belief, to monitor recruitment statistics. It may also collect information about whether or not applicants are disabled to make reasonable adjustments for candidates who have a disability. The Employer processes such information to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
For some roles, the Employer is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences. Where the Employer seeks this information, it does so because it is necessary for it to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
The Employer will not use your data for any purpose other than the recruitment exercise for which you have applied.
Who has access to data?
Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy.
The Employer will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment.
The Employer will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
The Employer will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
How does the Employer protect data?
The Employer takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties. All candidate data is stored either in locked filing cabinets within locked offices or held on our restricted access database. All candidate information is controlled by HR and small Admin team, no one else has direct access to this information.
For how long does the Employer keep data?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the Employer will hold your data on file for six months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. At the end of that period your data is deleted or destroyed.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
Your rights
As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:
- access and obtain a copy of your data on request.
- require the Employer to change incorrect or incomplete data.
- require the Employer to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
- object to the processing of your data where the Employer is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing.
- Withdraw your consent at any point, where processing is based upon your consent.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact:
Diane Hampton, HR Manager.
Anderson’s, 2 Institution Road, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1RP
or e-mail hr@andersonselgin.co.uk.
If you believe that the Employer has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.
What if you do not provide personal data?
You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the Employer during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the Employer may not be able to process your application properly or at all.
Automated decision-making
Recruitment processes are not based solely on automated decision-making.