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| Training at Socialwork 2000 |
Mags Walker has taken on the mantle of organising our in-house training programme and is currently working hard to put together an interesting series of events which will be relevant to your needs.
The season kicks off with
Working with Complex Behaviours in Children Workshop
The workshop will help participants have a better understanding of:
- The nature of complex behaviours
- How complex behaviours arise in the home and work place
- Their personal reaction to and perceptions of complex behaviour
- How to manage complex behaviours
For more information, click here. Please email Shelli to book your place.
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| Please get your timesheets in early for Easter |
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All this talk of holidays! Please remember that in order to be paid in time for Easter we need your timesheets in by
- Monday 7th April 5.30pm latest.
- Payroll will be run a day earlier on Tuesday 8th April in order that
- We can get the money to your bank on Thursday 10th April.
- Good Friday is of course a Bank Holiday.
Any late timesheets will be paid the following week.
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| Increased Holiday Entitlement |
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 Great news for Social Work locums !!
From 1st April 2009 locums who are paid by PAYE are entitled to the equivalent of an extra 4 days holiday a year. At SocialWork 2000 locums receive their holiday pay by accruing a holiday allowance for every hour that they work. Currently that is at a rate of 10.17%. From 1st April it goes up to 12.07%. This amounts to a pay rise. This will happen automatically so there is no action required by you. You will be able to claim this extra holiday pay when you take your Annual Leave.
For more information, click here.
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| One minute in the life of Alison Moore... |
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 Welcome to a new feature in the SW2k newsletter telling us a little bit more about the locums who work for us. Please email Vicki if you would like to be featured.
What 3 items would you take with you to a desert island? Tweezers (so when I am found I don't look like Hagrid) huge bar of Green and Blacks, my mobile (textaholic / music).
Are you an indoor or an outdoor person? Indoor in Winter, outdoor anywhere hot.
Where is your favourite place to eat? A nice clean restaurant!
What is your favourite Disney film? Cinderella (it gives me hope!)
Are you a cat or a dog person? I was regarded a dog (Poodle) for many years, due to a very bad perm in the eighties. I like dogs best, particularly my Paddy.
Do you eat cold cereal at night? No cereal at night - only chocolate
Kill the spider or let it out? Let it out at a distance as I am terrified, no matter what its size.
If you could be someone else for a day who would you be? Being someone else - A lady of leisure
Where is your favourite place? Spain
What do you do on Friday nights? Telly and chocolate normally hit the spot!
Performing arts, fine art or sports? Performing arts.
What makes you laugh? Nighty Night series one type humour.
Riding horses or riding dolphins? Horses.
Boat or bus? Boat with sickness tablets!
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The first 3 months of the year seem to have passed so quickly. It feels that the profession has come under a great deal of scrutiny and criticism over the last few months. That experience is mirrored in the conversations we have with our locums who are working in the front line.
The Lord Laming report has attracted considerable publicity to our profession recently. A number of locums have asked if we are able to supply a copy of the report. Here is a link which enables you to