We have secured an exclusive deal with Pure Gym for all care staff across Essex. Simply follow the link to sign up with no joining fee and 10% off all membership.
Provider Support & Offers
Essex County Council's Care Market Offer
Essex County Council are working in partnership with Care England on a wide number of initiatives. This is to support the Care Sector Nationally and within the County of Essex.
There are a number of opportunities, offers designed to assist the care sector in dealing with current and/or future challenges. Among the below there are themes of which we are looking to create focus groups to provide further insight. We welcome providers to step forward to join pilot schemes with the overall aim to deliver efficiencies and savings.
Free EV charging infrastructure
Believ is an electric vehicle charge point operator dedicated to delivering cleaner air for everyone. We will install, operate, and maintain all speeds of charge points at no cost to you or the taxpayer. With the expertise of our in-house teams and our delivery partner, Virgin Media O2, we will collaborate with you to provide a comprehensive, reliable, and accessible EV charging solution for you and your visitors.
Key benefits:
- Receive income - Gain secured income from your parking spaces
- Easy process - work with our team of experts as we take on the workload to plan, install, operate and maintain EV charge points
- Zero costs - We cover the costs thanks to our strong financial backing for long-term partnerships
- Enhanced experience - give your patients and guests one less thing to worry about with a charging solution arranged on-site, which are fairly priced and highly reliable
- Sustainable - deliver 100% renewable energy and support your ESG profile
Linked page: Believ | Publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure (https://www.believ.com/businesses/)
Kwik Fit Club is a premium subscription service which puts you in control of your vehicle
maintenance needs.
TYRES – Whatever the reason you are coved and we only fit premium tyres
WORN DAMAGED PUNCTURED ABNORMAL WEAR
MOT – option to add your MOT to your subscription
SERVICE – Kwik Fit annual full service can also be added
10% Discount on products outside of your subscription
Offering piece of mind motoring with one convenient monthly cost. (Care Sector staff offered 15% discount to Kwik Fit Club subscription)
Giving you access to all 650+ Kwik Fit Centres nationwide, with the majority open 7 days a week.
With Kwik Fit Club you will never need to worry about your vehicle again, the experts at Kwik Fit will
look after you.
Keeping our customers safe on the road and providing piece of mind motoring
ESPO Smart Solution's
Provides customers with the supply of a comprehensive range of PPE & clothing including workwear, schoolwear and body armour.
The agreement is essentially a select list of suppliers, all with a proven and successful track record of supplying PPE & Clothing, including workwear, schoolwear and body armour, from whom customers may set up supply arrangements quickly and simply.
Call-offs can be made via direct award or further competition.
The agreement also offers additional services on a price on application basis.
Benefits
- The framework contains supplier price lists enabling you to purchase directly without the need to run a further competition unless you wish to do so.
- The suppliers have quoted a fixed percentage discount off their list price for each lot/sub-lot in which they are awarded, and this discount can be applied to all products the suppliers can supply with the category and is not just limited to those products listed in the pricing schedule.
- Suppliers listed on the framework were assessed during the procurement process for their financial stability, track record, experience and technical & professional ability.
- What you see is what you pay – there are no additional charges.
- Pre-agreed terms & conditions to underpin all orders so no need to worry.
- Social value benefits can be obtained.
For further details on how to sign up for free follow this link
YourHippo.com is an award-winning eLearning and Learning Management System created for the Health and Social Care sector.
Standard pricing for their services is £25+VAT per active user per year. Note that the active user count excludes any leavers on the system.
They have an exclusive offer for anyone within Essex: a 20% discount, reducing the price to £20+VAT per active user per year. Please ensure you state ECC2024 when booking you demonstration with your hippo.
All users of the LMS gain access to their continually expanding course library, which currently includes over 50 eLearning courses and the entire Care Certificate.
You can set up a hierarchy of permissions to determine who can access the real-time Matrix Report, Compliance Report, Management Dashboards, and many other features.
To access further information, or to arrange a no-obligation demo of the LMS, head over to their Contact Us page on their website.
Care Providers currently using "Your Hippo" said......
"Our staff enjoy the training, the modules are very interactive and engaging. The presentation of the system is straightforward and well presented.
There is a big variety on offer for staff, the “Your Hippo” team have a great response rate when we raise a support ticket and recommend this supplier.”
Kelly Head of Learning & Development at Oakland Care
"YourHIPPO LMS is a great system. We have been using it for over 2 years. The system is user friendly for team members. Super speedy when creating reports, listing mandatory & statutory training records. All records update 24/7! Simple to create new starters/absent and leavers along with reinstating leavers. It is all joined up with additions to preset your reporting and/or develop your own bespoke e learning training module to upload as a SCORM file. Well worth booking a Demo"
Emma Learning & Development Manager at Hallmark Care Homes
"We have been using Your Hippo for a number of years now after spending some time searching the market for a comprehensive e-learning platform. After testing many systems, we decided to use Your Hippo primarily because of its range of courses, regular updates and ease of use. Equally we find the reports that the system generates, enable us to maintain oversight of our compliance at each of our services and across the group, at the touch of a button. In our experience Your Hippo is the gold standard of e-learning platforms, and we are yet to come across any other system that provides us with a package that enables the development of our staff in the way that Your Hippo does."
CEO Advina Health Care
We are excited to offer employees* of care providers in Essex a range of employee benefits from our health and wellbeing partner Vivup. These are designed to improve physical, financial and mental health. We have commissioned this service in partnership with Care England. For further information follow the EAP link
FREE ENERGY RENEWAL
BENCHMARKING REVIEW via Care England
We are troubled by the unnecessarily high energy renewals rates offered to care providers, often by their existing energy supplier, and have seen too many situations where care providers are being blatantly overcharged, incurring penalties, excessive VAT and seeing incorrect discounts applied. Too often providers are renewing their contracts with existing energy suppliers at extortionate and unnecessarily high renewal rates favouring energy brokers and some energy suppliers.
Care England has therefore established a FREE services to help all care providers have their renewals checked by a professional energy consultant to verify if they are being charged correctly (subject to availability).
If you wish to be considered for a future Care England energy tender, please contact Care England to find out how other care providers have benefitted and to register an interest.
As the UK’s largest business support group, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is the voice of small businesses and the self-employed. Established over 40 years ago, FSB is a non-profit making and non-party political organisation that’s led by its members, for its members.
It offers its members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise, support, and a powerful voice heard in government, (not just on behalf of its members but all small businesses).
The most popular services are FSB Legal Hub, (an online library of 1,400 legal documents and templates), and FSB Legal Protection, (24/7 helpline and up to 100k legal protection per case).
Services also include debt recovery,business banking, a funding platform, payroll/pensions services, payments, crisis comms support, tax investigation service and much more…
Alongside its membership benefits and services, the FSB offers a range of free support to small businesses, including webinars, networking, and business guides.
Care England
For further information this link will show the discount and free support offering from Care England. The range of offers have saved millions of pounds for both members and non-members of Care England.
26 discounts and free support offers which include:
- Free audits and reviews which have already saved millions of pounds for care providers
- Discounts to reduce costs by thousands of pounds
- Free support and advice to increase recruitment and retention
- Free and Discounted legal advice
- Free workforce helplines, training, and diagnostic reviews
- Free trials to stimulate and support residents, boost activity, and reduce falls