Apply for a job at Carers in Hertfordshire

Please give name and contact details of two people who can provide references for you. They must be your last two employers. If you aren’t currently in employment please see the enclosed guidelines on completing this form. Crossroads Care reserves the right to contact other previous employers. We do not approach referees until after interview.

Your answers to this section will be kept anonymously and helps us to be an organisation that is open to all.

Due to us working with carers and their loved ones, the successful applicant may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). Applicants for positions requiring a DBS check must declare all criminal convictions or cautions, whether they are spent or unspent. Carers in Hertfordshire aims to promote equality of opportunity and therefore only relevant convictions will be taken into account. All successful applicants will be asked to supply references for their last two employers, once an offer of employment is made. If this is an applicants’ first role, they will be asked to provide details of a person who knows them in a professional capacity e.g. through education, volunteering or a governing body. This cannot be someone related to them. Please note that any offer of employment is subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and DBS checks.

In our work supporting carers, we aim to be:

Passionate

• We are committed to making sure carers are valued, supported and have their voices heard
• We are tenacious about making sure carers are on everyone’s agenda

Kind

• We give carers time to talk and are there to listen
• We support staff to embrace change

Carer led

• Services should be designed and delivered with carers
• The voices of carers are central to the way we plan our future

Inclusive

• We involve carers in everything we do
• We proactively look for barriers that prevent carers using our services and reduce them

Open

• We are open about mistakes, admit to them and learn from them
• We give one another constructive feedback and support one another to learn and develop

Resilient

• We help carers to see a positive future and support them to adapt as needed
• We encourage everyone in the organisation to take care of their own wellbeing, take time for a break and support one another to do this
• We use systems and processes that are able to adapt to changing needs or the way we do things is able to adapt to changing needs