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As a leading nursing agency, we specialise in the staffing and recruitment of international educated medical staff. We enable our candidates to take control of their nursing career by choosing when and where they prefer to work. With thousands of shifts available in the NHS and private sector for general and specialist nurses, healthcare assistants, operating department practitioners and nurse practitioners, find out how we can support our clients and candidates to provide outstanding care in UK and Europe.

Our clients and candidates are the most important to us and therefore we constantly strive to improve the service they receive through hiring highly trained staff and continually improvising their professional development.

Our purpose is to provide ‘The best Care for You’ by living a set of values created by our staff that embody who we are and what we are here to do:

  • We focus on what matters most
  • We treat others how we would like to be treated
  • We are passionate and creative in our work
  • We do what we say we are going to do
  • We are one team and we are best when we work together

If you want to work in an environment that's interesting, rewarding and challenging, a career in nursing has plenty to offer. Nurses form the largest group of staff in the NHS and are a crucial part of the healthcare team. Nurses work in every sort of health setting from accident and emergency to patient's homes, with people of all ages and backgrounds.

So, if you're caring, compassionate and have a commitment to helping people, you'll find a role that suits you. You'll also need to be able to communicate difficult health issues effectively and courageously.


Adult nurse

Adult nursing is a rewarding career where you have a real chance to make a difference to people's lives. As part of your training, you can expect to learn new skills and procedures that help patients.


Why choose adult nursing ?

There are many reasons why you should consider a career as an adult nurse. It offers you the chance to make a difference, a high degree of flexibility and a career with excellent employment prospects.


Working life

You will learn how to observe patients and assess their needs. You will plan and deliver the most appropriate care for them, and evaluate the results. Your nursing career will mean working with adults of all ages. They may suffer from one or more long or short-term physical health conditions. This might include injuries from an accident, heart disease, pneumonia, arthritis, diabetes or cancer.

Building a trusting relationship with each patient is essential. Your aim is to improve your patients’ quality of life, whatever their situation. You’ll need to take lots of factors into account and juggle many priorities to get the best possible results for your patients.


Where will I work?

You might be working in a variety of institutions :

  • hospital wards, outpatient units or specialist departments
  • the community , patient’s home, a clinic, GP surgery, walk-in centres or nursing homes.
  • the prison service
  • the police
  • the voluntary or private sector

Adult nurses are a key part of the multidisciplinary teams that look after patients. You will be at the centre of teams that can include occupational therapists, pharmacists, radiographers and healthcare assistants. You'll also work closely with patients families and carers.


Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) work in hospitals or community settings, such as GP surgeries, under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional.


Working life

As a healthcare assistant (HCA), you'll work under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional, usually a nurse. Sometimes staff working in HCA roles are known as nursing assistants, nursing auxiliaries or auxiliary nurses.

The work varies depending on where you're based. In a hospital for example, you may be

  • washing and dressing patients
  • serving meals and helping to feed patients
  • helping people to move around
  • toileting
  • making beds
  • talking to patients and making them comfortable
  • monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight

In health centres and GP surgeries, you may

  • sterilise equipment
  • do health checks
  • restock consulting rooms
  • process lab samples
  • take blood samples
  • do health promotion or health education work

As well as nurses, HCAs work with doctors, midwives and other healthcare professionals. They have a lot of contact with patients.


Entry requirements

There are no set entry requirements to become a healthcare assistant. Employers expect good literacy and numeracy and may ask for GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and maths. They may ask for a healthcare qualification, such as BTEC or NVQ.

Employers expect you to have some experience of healthcare or care work. This could be from paid or voluntary work.

Skills and personal characteristics needed to be a healthcare assistant.

  • caring and kind
  • cheerful and friendly
  • willing to be hands-on with patients
  • willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
  • able to follow instructions and procedures
  • able to work in a team but use their own initiative

You'll also need

  • communication skills, including listening
  • organisation skills
  • observational skills

We recruit for a wide range of medical staff:

  • Acute Nursing
  • Adult Nursing
  • Community Nursing
  • Critical Care Nursing
  • Mental Health Nursing
  • ODP and Theatre Nursing
  • Primary Care Nursing
  • Prison Nursing

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