The international nurse recruitment market is incredibly competitive at the moment. Many western countries are struggling with clinical shortages, and are offering increasingly generous incentives to tempt international nurses to their organisations. The majority of nurses are given offers before applying to the NMC to ensure their registration expenses will be covered by their new...
In early July 2018, Tier 2 sponsors may have seen a message pop up in SMS – the sponsor management platform, stating that nurses can now be assigned an Unrestricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) in addition to a Restricted CoS. This change would seem to be positive: Although nursing was already on the Shortage Occupation...
According to the Migration Advisory Committee (2016), 10% of the nursing budget is currently spent on agency staff – equating to £1bn per annum, or 1% of the NHS total budget. That’s a huge figure! So what does that look like per nurse? MAC (2016) estimate that the average agency locum gets paid £39 per hour,...
When we refer to an English Language Bootcamp at My Healthcare Recruit we are referring to an intensive, immersive residential English Language course, where nurses are removed from their day-to-day work and family obligations, in order to pursue their study full-time for two months. At My Healthcare Recruit nurses are welcomed into a “UK themed”...
There’s a lot to coordinate when your international nurse arrives in the UK: accommodation; flights; orientation; induction; integration. However, like the famous line “It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings”, the relocation process isn’t complete until your nurse has passed their Objective Structured Clinical Examination – better known as the OSCE. Nurses that are...
So you know that your international nurse has to pass either the IELTS or the OET before they can even start the NMC registration process, and you know they’re probably going to need some sort of English Language support – but what does that look like? And how do you know which features will help...
The Immigration Skills Charge which was introduced in 2017 on the advice of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), now requires healthcare employers to pay £1000 upfront for every year of a nurse’s visa that they sponsor. So if an international nurse is being sponsored for a three year visa, a fee of £3000 is payable....
The English Language competence test is widely regarded as the greatest challenge when it comes to international nurses being eligible to practice in the UK. In order to register with the nursing and midwifery council, nurses must first achieve either Level 7.0 in every area of the IELTS test, or a level B pass in...
When it comes to finding an appropriate recruitment agency, you’ll likely ask them all the obvious questions like “how much do you charge?”, “how do you source your nurses?” and “how long does the process take?”. But when it comes to finding a specialist international nurse recruitment agency, you may also want to ask them the...
If you would like to become a Tier 2 Visa Sponsor, allowing you to sponsor nurses from outside the EEA then the process can seem daunting. However, it doesn’t have to be. We’ve put together the key information you need to know below, and also where to go for more help. Can you give me...
