Are you a nurse currently living Kerala interested in moving your nursing career to the UK? HCL Permanent is a trusted and experienced recruitment agency helping international nurses to start their career in the English health system. We have working relationships with NHS Trusts across the UK who are looking for talented general nurses, mental health nurses and midwives. We are hosting a recruitment event to talk to you about everything you need to know about nursing opportunities in the UK. When is the event? The event will be taking place 15th-19th August 2022. Please contact us via the co ..read more

We’ve helped thousands of candidates over the years, many of whom have stuck with us for a long time! As well as the incredible clients we work with, it’s our people who keep healthcare professionals all over the UK coming back to us again and again, as you’ll see below! Interested in joining the scores of health and social care professionals working with us? Submit your CV to us online using our Quick CV Drop, or submit your availability to work for a call back with urgent roles! Trustpilot The post We’re proud of our Trustpilot score! appeared first on HCL Workforce ..read more

We are absolutely delighted that our HCL Workforce Solutions social care team will be exhibiting at this year’s Compass Jobs Fair Birmingham.   What is it? Taking place in the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre on 14th March 2022, the Compass Jobs Fair is the ultimate way to meet employers face-to-face for those working or wanting to work in the social work and social care sector. Who’ll be there? We’ll be there alongside local authorities (including our Master Vend clients Birmingham Children’s Trust and Sandwell Children’s Trust), universities, voluntary services and ind ..read more

Today we celebrate National Care Day, a day to celebrate the successes and achievements of children and young people with experience of care and acknowledging those that work within the profession. The theme this year is ‘It takes a village to raise a child’, which focuses on how different people in communities can have a positive influence on children and young people and how important these relationships are in shaping the lives of our care experienced community. Out of the 12 million children living in England, just under 400,000 (3%) are in the social care sys ..read more

If you recently landed a job interview, although in-person interviews aren’t quite a thing of the past there’s a big chance that it won’t be in person. Interviews are one of the many things that companies are now conducting virtually and are quickly becoming the new norm. There is every chance your next interview will be a video interview, taking place on a platform such as Zoom or Skype. With this rise comes the need to iron out the right protocol surrounding a video interview, which is different from face-to-face and phone interviews. Our experienced team has put together these five top ..read more

HCRG is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards in the category: The Grant Thornton, Specialist Recruitment Company of the Year. The Tiara Recruitment Awards celebrate the best of the best in recruitment. They identify the UK’s top performing recruitment companies in the industry and the people and organisations who have made a stand-out contribution to recruitment in the past twelve months. Gary Taylor, Group CEO commented, “It’s an honour to have been shortlisted as a finalist in the TIARA Recruitment Awards in the Specialist Re ..read more

Gezz Van Zwanenberg has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer for HCRG’s health and social care division, where he will play an instrumental role in helping the team meet ambitious growth targets. Gezz has a background of leadership in both operational and strategic roles in the military, health and business settings. He served as a squadron leader in the RAF, and as a consultant nurse in Critical Care, Gezz was awarded the Ambulance Service Institute President’s award for Critical Care Air Support to patient care during Operations in Afghanistan while leading the CCAST teams. He h ..read more

HCL Nursing are very excited to have just won a new contract with one of the UK’s largest group of private hospitals. This has opened up lots of new opportunities for RGNs, ITU nurses and ODPs nationwide, with excellent new rates! Our new rates will be as follows PAYE or LTD (inside IR35) RGN rates before WTR and employers NI Days – £34.39 ph Nights – £41.14 ph Sunday – £47.26 ph ITU/Specialist/ODP before WTR and employers NI Days – £40.60 ph Nights – £50.30 ph Sunday – £55.33 ph We also have lines of work available in some areas with guaranteed work, and ..read more

This International Recruiters Day, I just wanted to say a few words of thanks to all of those who have worked tirelessly over what has been a challenging 12 months for the recruitment sector. I want to start, by thanking my incredible health and social care recruitment teams, across the HCRG portfolio. From the locum AHP, Doctors, HSS, Mental Health, Nursing, Social Care and Clerical recruitment teams who rallied together to provide essential workers to the NHS and Private Hospitals throughout the pandemic; to our permanent recruitment team who, faced with closed borders and no travel zones, s ..read more

The Department of Health and Social Care have released an update to the code of practice (CoP) which sets out how UK health and social care employers can ethically recruit from overseas. The announcement includes an update to the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguard list, widening the global market from which the UK can actively recruit. The previously held list of 152 countries from which the UK had recruitment safeguarding restrictions, but has now been replaced with a new list of just 47 countries. This means employers are now able to actively recruit from over a h ..read more