Live Life Team
Many UK hospitals, nursing homes, medical centres, clinics and other medical care, entities need experienced nurses. Medical facilities contract with nursing care agencies to recruit staff for general nursing and medical care specialties. They offer temporary, fulltime and part time nursing jobs and day-to-day contracts.
All the agencies carefully screen nurses before offering a contract; they interview candidates and check all references. They also run criminal record checks and verify the candidates work history. Agencies seek the best-qualified people to fill nursing positions. The Nursing and Midwifery Council regularly checks nurse ‘Pin’ numbers.
The agencies prepare weekly invoices, including the nurse’s name, hours worked, travel allowance, holiday pay, NI contributions, VAT and any commission charged by the agency. Nurses usually receive weekly payments.
Nurses in the process of becoming registered in the UK can complete a profile and register their CV online with one or several agencies specialising in contract work.
A sampling of available jobs in the UK follows:
Trauma and orthopaedic theatre scrub nurses
Assessment and rehabilitation;
Elderly care/Residential
General theatre nurse
Stroke specialists,
Palliative and oncology nurses
IV therapy nurses
ITU and neonatal nurses
IV therapy
Some agencies can assist nurses in finding appropriate living quarters and in some cases, hospitals provide free accommodation or subsidise weekly payments, especially when the patient is in a private hospital. Contract freelancing is another form of contract available to nurses registered to work in the UK.
