Have you been looking for professional, highly trained agency HCAs to cover shifts at your nursing or care home? As the demand for quality healthcare services continues to rise in the UK, the need for reliable and competent healthcare assistants has never been greater, and it can be hard to find cover able to provide the quality of care your residents deserve.
Residential homes require skilled HCAs who are compassionate, understanding, and able to provide care in a professional and respectful manner. Medilink Nursing is proud to offer top-quality agency HCAs to residential homes throughout the UK.
What are Agency HCAs?
An agency HCA is a healthcare assistant who is employed by a staffing agency rather than a specific residential home. They are able to work at multiple locations as required, providing flexible staffing solutions to meet demand and cover shortfalls in Homes’ regular staffing levels. Agency HCAs offer a range of benefits to residential homes, including:
Flexibility
Residential homes often experience fluctuations in staffing needs, with busy periods requiring more staff and quiet periods requiring fewer staff. Agency HCAs offer a flexible solution to this problem, providing additional staff when needed and reducing staffing levels during quieter periods.
Quality Staffing
Medilink Nursing takes pride in selecting only the best HCAs to work on our behalf. All of our agency HCAs undergo rigorous background checks, including DBS checks and employment history checks (all our staff must have a minimum of 6 months’ UK-based experience within the past 2 years, or 2 years’ within the past 5). We also ensure that all of our HCAs receive regular training and are up-to-date with the latest standards & techniques of the industry.
Cost-Effective
Employing permanent staff can be expensive, with additional costs associated with recruitment, training, and any extra perks your home offers. By using agency HCAs, residential homes are able to reduce these costs while still maintaining the quality of care provided to their residents.
Why Choose Medilink Nursing?
At Medilink Nursing, we understand the importance of quality care. We are dedicated to providing residential homes throughout the UK with the best agency HCAs available. Our agency HCAs are compassionate, professional, and experienced in providing care to the elderly and those with complex healthcare needs.
We take pride in our stringent recruitment process, which ensures that only the best HCAs are selected to work on our behalf. Our agency HCAs undergo continuous training and development to ensure that they are up to date with the latest healthcare practices and procedures.
Our agency HCAs are available to work in a range of settings, including nursing homes, care homes, and hospitals. Whether you require short-term or long-term staffing solutions, we are here to help.
Contact Us Today
If you are looking for reliable and quality agency HCAs to support your residential home, look no further than Medilink Nursing. We are dedicated to providing the best care possible, and our agency HCAs are the perfect solution to your staffing needs.
We offer a range of booking options, allowing you the flexibility to sort the cover you need with no hassle. Moreover, we pride ourselves in our ability to regularly secure last-minute cover, so we’re a great choice in case of short-notice staffing emergencies.
For more detail about the specific services we offer, click here to take a look at our services page.
If you’ve any questions, or would like to make some more involved arrangements, please get in touch, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you! You can reach our team on 0113 877 6383 (between 6:00am and 10:30pm every day of the year), or email us at care@medilinknursing.com – we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
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