YB then thanked SSSC for arranging the first meeting in Dundee. It was agreed that in future meetings were likely to be arranged in different parts of the country and will commence at 10am rather than 10.30am to allow more time for the meeting whilst still concluding around 12.30pm Registration – introduction and overview – Cheryl Campbell, SSSC 3.1 CC presented a PowerPoint about registration, mandatory registration, the different parts of the Register and explained about MySSSC. 3.2 CC explained that for the part of the Register for Support Workers in Care Home Services for Adults, we are expecting 23,000 applications. 3.3 A few questions were then raised and answered: QUESTION ANSWER What if support workers in People may still be registered if they apply care home services for adults late but we cannot give any guarantees. have not applied to register An employer can continue to employ before 30 September 2014? support workers who are not registered until 30 September 2015. What if support workers in Employers would be committing an offence care home services are not if they continue to employ unregistered registered by September workers beyond 30 September 2015 2015? unless there is a reasonable excuse. What if they are not They will have 5 years to achieve the qualified? appropriate qualifications. Will relief and bank staff be Yes all workers carrying out these roles are required to register? required to be registered. They will also Will these staff require the have 5 years to achieve the qualifications. same qualifications? Would a member of staff on Yes, if a person is looking to change to a the Housing Support part of different part of the Register after 6 Register, who moved to Care months, they will have to Register again at Home in just over 6 and pay a new fee. (If a person is on 2 months have to register parts of the Register at the same time again? there would only be one fee). Can staff apply to register on The system developers are working on this both the Care at Home and – UPDATE – since the meeting this is Housing Support parts of the now possible on the online system.
YB then thanked SSSC for arranging the first meeting in Dundee. It was agreed that in future meetings were likely to be arranged in different parts of the country and will commence at 10am rather than 10.30am to allow more time for the meeting whilst still concluding around 12.30pm Registration – introduction and overview – Cheryl Campbell, SSSC 3.1 CC presented a PowerPoint about registration, mandatory registration, the different parts of the Register and explained about MySSSC. 3.2 CC explained that for the part of the Register for Support Workers in Care Home Services for Adults, we are expecting 23,000 applications. 3.3 A few questions were then raised and answered: QUESTION ANSWER What if support workers in care home services for adults have not applied to register before 30 September 2014? People may still be registered if they apply late but we cannot give any guarantees. An employer can continue to employ support workers who are not registered until 30 September 2015. What if support workers in care home services are not registered by September 2015? Employers would be committing an offence if they continue to employ unregistered workers beyond 30 September 2015 unless there is a reasonable excuse. What if they are not qualified? They will have 5 years to achieve the appropriate qualifications. Will relief and bank staff be required to register? Will these staff require the same qualifications? Yes all workers carrying out these roles are required to be registered. They will also have 5 years to achieve the qualifications. Would a member of staff on the Housing Support part of Register, who moved to Care at Home in just over 6 months have to register again? Yes, if a person is looking to change to a different part of the Register after 6 months, they will have to Register again and pay a new fee. (If a person is on 2 parts of the Register at the same time there would only be one fee). Can staff apply to register on both the Care at Home and Housing Support parts of the The system developers are working on this – UPDATE – since the meeting this is now possible on the online system.
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