Health Firm To Provide Access NI Checks

LUCAS Love Healthcare is fur-ther delivering for employers and job seekers with the announce-ment that it will be providing Ac-cess NI support services to organisations across Northern Ireland.
The agency, which specialises in the provision of permanent, temporary and contract recruit-ment of healthcare profession-als across Northern Ireland, is now an official umbrella body for Access Northern Ireland and as such will process Access NI checks for other employers.
Access NI checks are required to make sure that organisations are able to make safer recruit-ment decisions and check that applicants are not barred from working with vulnerable groups. In most cases this would be a legislative require-ment of many businesses.
Director and Registered Nurse manager, Sinead Polland said: “Access NI criminal histo-ry checks are necessary for an increasing number of the roles across the province.
“We believe that this initia-tive is ideal for some of the smaller organisations that we work with as it will not only en-sure peace of mind when it comes to the applicants’ suit-ability, but also means that companies will not have to pay the fee to become a registered body with Access NI. Access NI is also encouraging businesses that would process a relatively small number of checks annual-ly to work in partnership with one of their approved umbrella organisations.
“Through this initiative we have expanded the assistance we can offer. Our details are on the Access NI website under umbrella organisations. As such clients can be ensured that we are a regulated, approved body, they can rest assured that we will deal with their Access NI clearance needs efficiently.
” Lucas Love Healthcare will provide form completion and disclosure tracking as well as its premium recruitment consul-tancy services for £15 per appli-cation [This doesn’t include costs charged by Access NI].
By using the service, employ-ers will not be directly subject to the requirements of the Ac-cess NI code of practice, includ-ing participation in compliance audits and will not have to meet the minimum threshold of sub-mitting 20 applications per year. They can be assured that Lucas Love Healthcare meet all legislative requirements.
Lucas Love Healthcare also offers free Access NI to their own new staff, making register-ing for agency work with them completely free of charge.