Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd is committed to eliminating modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and similar human rights abuses.

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Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd is committed to ensuring that its staff and any workers it supplies (directly or indirectly) are not subject to behaviour or threats that may amount to modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and similar human rights abuses

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Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd provides appropriate training and awareness information for all of its staff. In particular:

• All of our staff receive awareness-raising information around issues involving modern slavery and human trafficking, so that they can bring any concerns they have to the attention of management.

 

Any staff, workers or other parties are strongly encouraged to report any concerns or suspicions that they might have to Director.

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Reports surrounding these issues are taken extremely seriously by our senior leadership team, who are committed to ensuring that all investigations shall be investigated thoroughly 

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• Working with the appropriate organisations to improve standards,

• Removing that organisation from our preferred supplier list,

• Passing details to appropriate law enforcement bodies.

 

We regularly monitor our risks in this area through the use of relevant key performance indicators, including:

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• Getting all supplier to provide their own modern slavery statements,

• Provide modern slavery training and awareness amongst our staff.

 

As part of our efforts in this area, we publish a modern slavery statement on an annual basis.

 

We would also recommend reading this in conjunction with our other policies, including our:

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• Anti-bribery / corruption policy, and

• Whistle-blowing policy.

• Payroll standard operating procedure.

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This statement is made as part of Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd’s commitment to eliminating the exploitation of people under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the Act). It summarises how Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd operates, the policies and processes in place to minimise the possibility of any problems, any risks we have identified and how we monitor them, and how we train our staff.

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Our Business 

Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd is a limited company operating in the recruitment sector. We supply temporary workers in the Private and Public healthcare sectors. Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd is an independent business.

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Who we work with?
All of the hirers that we work with, and all of the work-seekers we provide, are known to and identified by our staff. All of the temporary workers we supply are identified by our staff.

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Policy development and review
Pro Assist Healthcare Ltd’s policies are established by our Directors, based on advice from HR professionals, industry best practice and legal advice. We review our policies annually, or as needed to adapt to changes.

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Our Processes for Managing Risk
In order to assess the risk of modern slavery, we use the following processes with our suppliers:

•When engaging with suppliers, we ask for evidence of their processes and policies, including commitments around modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, human rights, and whistleblowing.

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After due consideration, we have not identified any significant risks of modern slavery, forced labour, or human trafficking in our supply chain. However, we continue to be alert to the potential for problems.

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Our Performance

Based on the potential risks we have identified, we have also established the following key
performance indicators, which are regularly assessed by directors:

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• Getting all supplier to provide their own modern slavery statements,

• Provide modern slavery training and awareness amongst all our staff.

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We carefully consider our indicators, in order to ensure that we do not put undue pressure on our suppliers that might increase the potential for risk.

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Our Training

All of our staff receive training and support that is appropriate to their role. In particular:

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• Our leadership team receive detailed training in identifying and resolving concerns around modern slavery and human trafficking.

• Our staff involved in our procurement and supply chains undertake training courses that include guidance around modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as other wider human rights issues.

• All of our staff receive awareness-raising information around issues involving modern slavery and human trafficking, so that they can bring any concerns they have to the attention of management. As part of this, our staff are encouraged to discuss any concerns that they have.
  Training is refreshed annually.

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