Make A Wish
One of our tooth fairies, Aurea, is raising money for 'Make A Wish UK'. Make-A-Wish UK grant magical wishes to enrich the lives of children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions. Granting their wish provides seriously ill children with hope for the future, strength to cope, and resilience to fight their condition. They’re given quality time away from the daily realities of...
GDC changes to your CPD
As you know (I hope you do), the 'Enhanced CPD' scheme is starting for Dental Nurses in August. You can read more information about this on the GDC website by clicking here. In summary, the new 'Enhanced CPD' is easier and is based around core subjects and personal development plans. If you are at the end of your 5 year cycle you will be automatically put onto the new system and will only be...
Afternoon Tea for Two
Big news for you all! Back at the end of February we launched a competition on Facebook for a chance to win afternoon tea for two. It was simple really, all you had to do was like, share and comment on the post. This has been circulating for 2 weeks now and we have chosen a winner at random. Well, technically Google has. It is amazing how much you can do online! Before I reveal the winner...
Workplace Pension Update
From 6th April 2018, the total minimum amount being paid into your workplace pension by both you and I, is increasing from 2% to 5% of your qualifying earnings due to a change in workplace pension regulations. This is a nationwide change, involving millions of people and their employers. The good news is, Cavity are paying 2% of this! It really does pay to invest in your future. It pays...
Wear A Hat Day
Now we are in March (almost) I can reveal the plans we have in store for our latest charity venture. As I have already said or technically written, we are raising money for Brain Tumour Research, I was truly shocked reading through the statistics of how many people this cancer has impacted and how little funding they receive. If you want to familiarise yourselves with these facts...
Valentine’s Day Love
Wow! We are definitely feeling the love here in the office after reading through all of the nominations for our Valentine's Day competition. We have had so many nominations and found it impossible to choose 7 winners. As much as we would love to, we can't afford to send flowers to you all but we want to make sure you are all feeling the love... Here are all of the nominations we have had in...
Happy Valentine’s Day
Whether you love or hate it, celebrate or avoid it, whenever February comes around there is one thing that we all think of... Valentine's Day! It's that time of year again and to make it more interesting and spread the love amongst our dedicated locums and clients we have launched a competition for our lovely nurses! Cupids arrow might just be coming your way. We have 14 bouquets of...
Help Fund The Fight – Charity Event
Here we are at the start of 2018 and we have decided to raise money and awareness for Brain Tumour Research. This is a charity that is very close to one of our long-standing team members, Janine. Sadly, Janine’s uncle was diagnosed with a brain tumour and after a short battle, lost her uncle to this cancer. As a family they are trying to reach a target of £5000 to donate to this great...
WE HAVE A SHINY NEW REWARDS SCHEME
A brand new rewards scheme will replace the reward cards and stickers we are currently using. We are now set up with Flok. What is Flok you ask? Well, Flok is a nifty website that will allow us to send you digital stamps to collect and claim back rewards at the click of a button. I’m sure you are all thinking how much more convenient this is? And no more worrying about accidentally...
The Big Pink
On Thursday 5th October the whole Cavity team went pink for Breast Cancer Care! This is a charity close to our hearts and we had great fun doing The Big Pink. We've raised over £300 for far with more to come in. A huge thank you to everyone who has got involved and donated money. If you want to go pink this October then check out the Breast Cancer Care website for...