Thursday, July 30, 2015

Birmingham Nurse Recruitment Open Day Coundown Sat 1 Aug









Concept Care Solutions (Dolphin Care) are delighted to invite you to attend a Nurse Recruitment Day which is due to be held on Saturday 1st August 2015. The event will run all day from 9am-5pm. Our Recruitment Day is focused on undertaking an interview on the day and collecting/copying a number of documents (listed further down) in order to make you compliant to work with us as soon as possible. Food and drink will be available and activities will be provided for any children accompanying you to keep everyone occupied.
Concept Care Solutions (Dolphin Care) is one of the UK’s leading nursing agencies and has built a reputation for consistently exceeding expectations, by recruiting a large volume of high caliber, highly specialised healthcare staff and placing them in some of the country’s leading healthcare providers. 



We are currently working with a large number of NHS Trusts and private healthcare settings across the East Midlands, West Midlands and North West of the UK, whom we have strong, ongoing and professional relationships with. Maintaining these professional relationships means that a high number of shifts become available to Dolphin Care, thus our nurses get access to shifts where they want and choose to work when they want. 



We have nursing jobs and work all over the Midlands and North West so if you could make it to the open day in Birmingham as a one off, we can put you out to work elsewhere at a location that suits you.

http://conceptcaresolutions.com

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Immigration Matters: Recruiting International Nurses 'Frustrating And E...

Immigration Matters: Recruiting International Nurses 'Frustrating And E...: An NHS Chief has branded the recruitment of overseas nurses as "distracting, frustrating and expensive" despite employing 300 n...

Recruiting International Nurses 'Frustrating And Expensive' NHS Chief Claims

An NHS Chief has branded the recruitment of overseas nurses as "distracting, frustrating and expensive" despite employing 300 nurses from the Philippines and the EU in the last year, the BBC reports.

Dr Keith McNeil, the Chief Executive of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, called for NHS officials to "figure out" what resources were needed to improve UK recruitment and train more home grown nurses.

Last year more than 7,500 international nurses were recruited and registered to work in the UK from countries such as Spain, Croatia and The Philippines.

The majority of overseas nurses coming to work in the UK are from the EU, while the number of nurses from outside of Europe has declined. EU nurses (apart from Croatian Citizens) do not need Tier 2 Work Permits and can generally gain NMC PIN numbers without the need to undergo addition ONP training.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures confirm that the recruitment of overseas staff to the UK is on the rise as severe shortages hit NHS hospitals and Nursing Home groups.

In the last year, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has taken on 303 foreign nurses - half from the Philippines and the rest largely from Italy, Spain and Portugal.



Candidates at recruitment event in Portugal

In an interview with the BBC Dr McNeil said: "Nurses are the backbone of the NHS. You can't run services effectively in an acute hospital like this without adequate numbers of trained nursing staff.

"It's distracting, frustrating and expensive to do international recruitment. It would be nice not to have to do it... [and] to have a more targeted approach."

He added: "We don't have enough home-grown nurses, but we know the demographics. The health service has to figure out what resources are needed for our activity. We need proper planning; I think the people at Health Education England are doing that now.

"At least doing it now means avoiding having to do this in the years to come."

Nursing experts fear that shortages could be fuelled in the coming years by retirement among the baby-boomer generation, and limits on the number of skilled workers from outside the EU who are allowed into the UK.

NHS Employers has issued guidance to hospitals Trusts who may be considering international nurse recruitment.

Addenbrooke's estimates that it costs £3,000 to recruit each nurse from the EU, plus new arrivals are awarded £400 their first month's accommodation, so long as they stay for 18 months.

EU nurses had to be sent on a language course if they need to boost their conversational skills in English, as well as being given 10 weeks of mentoring support in the hospital to help their technical and clinical language.

On the plus side, the hospital admits that the overseas recruitment drive is paying dividends, because it is now using fewer temporary staff from agencies and saving hundreds of thousands of pounds.

A number of large Trusts regularly spend several million pounds every year on agency staff to cover shifts they cannot fill from their own staff bank.

The head of nurse’s union, the Royal College of Nursing, Dr Peter Carter, said: "Last year there were 57,000 applicants for 20,000 nurse training posts.

"Isn't that a matter of huge regret that you've got people in the four countries of the UK who want to train as nurses. They're being turned away, while we're going off and raiding the often impoverished workforce of other countries."

He added: "It's hugely regrettable and the UK is not exactly covering itself in glory in this."

But the organisation now in charge of nurse training, Health Education England, says it has increased places by 14% in two years.

A spokesperson said: "The number of nurses in the NHS is a matter of public and political comment, and HEE has responded to those concerns.

"HEE increased adult nurse commissions significantly in its first year and increased them again the following year.

"And we launched the Return to Practice campaign which has already started 1,300 experienced nurses on their journey back into the NHS. [Some] 160 of these have successfully completed training and are now employed."

Nursing agencies, such as Dolphin Care and Concept care Solutions have been supplying both temporary and permanent nurses to the NHS and private sector for many years.

A spokesman said: “The staffing crisis is similar to the shortages experiences in 1999-2000 when we recruited international nurses in their thousands from The Philippines and India.

“Whilst the initial cost may be high, international recruitment is a more permanent solution than using expensive agency staff, which the government wants to reduce.

“Of course we need to train more UK nurses for UK nursing jobs, but this will take years and in the meantime thousands of nurses are retiring, gaining promotion or going abroad to take higher paid jobs in the Middle East, Australia or the USA and Canada.”

Concept Care Solutions is on the LPP Framework to supply International nurses to the NHS. They are currently supplying nurses from Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and The Philippines.


Friday, July 24, 2015

Immigration Matters: UK Universities need International students who co...

Immigration Matters: UK Universities need International students who co...: UK higher education brings billions of pounds into the economy with thousands of international students coming here to study and, for man...

International students needed by UK Universities and they contribute billions to the UK economy

UK higher education brings billions of pounds into the economy with thousands of international students coming here to study and, for many, to make a life in Britain.

Immigration Rules allow university students to work under a student visa while studying in the UK and apply for a Tier 2 work permit after they graduate with a UK degree. 

But under new proposals announced by Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, graduates will be required to leave the country and re-apply for a UK visa to come back and work.

The government must balance the need to control immigration and keep the economy moving in the right direction. Figures show that thousands of students are remaining in the UK after their studies putting more pressure on Home Office net migration targets.

Putting it in simple terms, an international student from a less affluent country can make more money in the UK as a care worker than he can back home as a lawyer or accountant. 

The problem is, a low paid care worker on minimum wage is not contributing to the economy - many will pay hardly any tax and if they have children at schools will be a net drain on the system.

Employers want a more open UK visa system for foreign students and Tier 2 workers, as this gives them a wider choice of available talent.

On the other hand, the country is facing a huge shortage of housing which is forcing prices beyond the reach of young people trying to get on the property ladder.

UK universities argue that they are competing with countries, like Australia, which welcome the best students and allow them to stay on to find and obtain working visas.

International students are important to the UK’s economy, contributing billions of pounds every year and creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

Many UK universities appear in the top of world’s league tables year after year, and need the best national and international talent to stay ahead of the competition.

For overseas students and migrants, the UK remains a huge draw because of its strong economy, flexible business laws and money making opportunities. Frankly, Britain needs their energy and drive.


Immigration Matters: New National Living Wage Will Boost Care Worker Pa...

Immigration Matters: New National Living Wage Will Boost Care Worker Pa...: A new National Living Wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 or over will be introduced from April 2016, the UK Chancellor George Osbo...

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...: The NMC   (Nursing and Midwifery Council), the body which regulates and registers nurses and midwives in the UK, has launched a consultati...

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...: The NMC   (Nursing and Midwifery Council), the body which regulates and registers nurses and midwives in the UK, has launched a consultati...

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...

Immigration Matters: NMC consultation on English language requirements ...: The NMC   (Nursing and Midwifery Council), the body which regulates and registers nurses and midwives in the UK, has launched a consultati...

Immigration Matters: Croatian Care Worker and Life in the UK

Immigration Matters: Croatian Care Worker and Life in the UK: Croatian Care Worker tells her story of life and work in the UK. Croatia is in the EU, however, there is a 7 year restriction on work...

Croatian Care Worker and Life in the UK




Croatian Care Worker tells her story of life and work in the UK.

Croatia is in the EU, however, there is a 7 year restriction on working, which means Croatians need a permit to work in the UK.  Croatians can also study (and obtain courses funded by government-backed student loans) or become self-employed by setting up a business.

One method for Croatians to come the UK is to study and work on a YELLOWCARD permit, which allows full-time work provided the course is vocational and the work relates to the course – e.g. care work with a diploma course in health and social care. 

If you are interested in a study course and paid work placement, provided you are willing to do care work, I can help with a job and the YELLOW CARD paperwork. See: http://how2cometotheuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/immigration-information-for-croatians.html 



Thursday, July 09, 2015

Immigration Matters: New National Living Wage Will Boost Care Worker Pa...

Immigration Matters: New National Living Wage Will Boost Care Worker Pa...: A new National Living Wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 or over will be introduced from April 2016, the UK Chancellor George Osbor...

New National Living Wage Will Boost Care Worker Pay From April 2016

A new National Living Wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 or over will be introduced from April 2016, the UK Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Budget Statement yesterday.

The National Living Wage will replace the National Minimum Wage pay rate (for over 25's) - currently £6.50 per hour and is set to rise to £6.70 per hour on 1 October 2015 - next April, and will rise to over £9 an hour by 2020.

Some workers will lose a benefit called 'tax credits', which means the pay rise is not as exciting for them, but for most the new living wage will be a welcome boost to their take home pay, especially with the reduction in tax for the lower paid.

The UK government wants to make it more attractive to work than live off benefits.

Colin Angel, Policy Director for the UKHCA (United Kingdom Care Home Association) said:

"UKHCA supports measures which improve the terms and conditions of low-paid workforces. We note that Government's announcement on a National Living Wage for workers aged 25 years and above is offset to some degree by changes to employers' National Insurance contributions. However, due to the age profile of the social care workforce this announcement will have a significant impact on the cost of homecare."

Most home care providers and nursing agencies already pay their staff above the minimum wage and is currently recruiting Care Support Workers to work in Hertfordshire, Northampton and Southend-on-Sea. The company has also recruited overseas Nurses, Doctors and Health Care Assistants (HCA's) from EU countries, such as Spain, Ireland, Greece and Croatia, to work in UK NHS hospitals and care homes.