Find Agency Nursing Staff Near You With Medilink Nursing!

If you’re looking for agency nursing staff to provide cover at your Residential Home, then you’re in the right place! At Medilink Nursing, we have hundreds of agency nursing staff on our books, eager to help out at your Home.

What Are Our Agency Nursing Staff Like?

All of Medilink’s agency nursing staff are experienced, skilled, DBS-checked, and have up-to-date, CPD-accredited training.

Just how experienced? Whilst some nursing agencies provide staff without experience in the UK, we insist that all our agency nursing staff have a minimum of:

6 months’ UK-based experience in a Residential Home or Hospital setting within the past 2 years.

OR

2 years’ UK-based experience in a Residential Home or Hospital setting within the past 5 years.

What’s more, we have to be able to verify this experience with their former employers before we offer our staff their first shifts. Then, before they can start working, we make sure all our staff are up-to-speed with the latest training in areas such as People Moving and Handling, Infection Control, and Safeguarding.

Because of this vetting, training, and experience, we can guarantee that our staff will slot right into your Home’s working environment with minimal introductory/procedural training. You can be sure that you’re getting quality staff, and that your residents are in capable hands.

What Kind of Agency Nursing Staff Services do we Offer?

What kind of services do we offer, though? You can take a look at our Services Page for more detail, but we’ll sum it up here:

Ad Hoc Cover – We can provide nurses for you as and when you need them, for single shifts. No matter how little notice, we’ll always do our best to find you the support required.

Short-Term Cover – This is cover for a fixed period of time, including anything up to a year.

Long-Term Cover – If you need anything longer than a year, we can provide staff on a semi-permanent contractual basis.

Block Bookings – If you have a repeating pattern of shifts you need covering for the foreseeable, (Maybe you need extra staff every Monday or on every other Friday), our block bookings service means there’s no need to make a new booking every time that shift comes around.

Specialised 1-to-1 Care – Our staff are trained in a range of areas where 1-to-1 care might be required, such as palliative care, dementia care, and more.

Last-Minute Shift Requests Getting last-minute cover can be an absolute nightmare, but like we say, we specialise in getting you a fast answer in an emergency.

What Situations Call For Agency Nursing Staff?

Many Homes try their hardest not to use agency nursing staff, viewing it as too expensive, or a failure condition. But neither of those are true! Making use of agency nursing staff is a great way of optimising your Home’s staffing levels. Any time your home could use some extra hands, you can simply employ them temporarily, for the exact amount of time you need, rather than having more staff than necessary on your payroll year-round.

And, of course, there are emergencies to consider. Having a post-it behind the desk with a number to call in case the night-shift doesn’t turn up is something you’ll thank yourself for one day!

Summary

Now that you’ve reached the end of this blog, what do you think of Medilink’s services? If you’ve any questions, or would like to make a booking, just give our head office a call on 0113 877 6383, or email care@medilinknursing.com, and our Operations Team will sort things out – we’re available from 6:00am to 10:30am every day of the year!