Healthcare
SCP Recruitment has been placing healthcare staff into hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare organisations since 2006. With a large and growing database of skilled and experienced professionals, along with a wide variety recruitment tools, we have the ability to secure the most suitable healthcare staff to meet our clients’ temporary and permanent needs. SCP Recruitment also has an array of contacts throughout Europe and Australia providing us with further access to the best talent and opportunities.
Nursing
Our success is based on the long-term relationships we have with our nurses and clients. Our 24-hour service enables us to provide suitably skilled nurses at any time of the day or night, across a range of specialisms. All our nurses are interviewed and assessed by a nursing professional to ensure their skills and knowledge are up-to-date and relevant.
General Nursing
Our nurses operate within a wide variety of settings including hospitals and nursing homes. Through our detailed and thorough recruitment process we assess the experience, expertise and competence of all our nurses prior to any assignment. This strict process allows us to properly match to the needs of our clients.
Mental Health Nursing
Our team includes a dedicated registered mental health nurse to ensure the staff we provide have the skills, experience and competencies needed to work within a variety of acute and community mental health settings.
Community Nursing
With our experience delivering community services, we understand what it takes to provide the most suitable people to work out in the community. We find and train appropriately skilled and experienced community and district nurses, health visitors, and other specialists to meet the local community needs.
Critical Care Nursing
We carry out detailed clinical competency-based interviews and take the greatest care to match the skills of our nurses to the needs of our clients. We provide highly-skilled clinicians for A&E and intensive care, including paediatric and neonatal intensive units.
Theatre Nursing
We provide nurses and operating department practitioners with a high level of technical skill who can provide care throughout the course of operative process. We ensure that skills and knowledge are up to date and relevant to the setting and that our theatre staff work well within a team and under pressure.
Paediatrics nursing
Our team includes paediatric and neonatal nurses with extensive clinical experience. We’re skilled at finding nurses who can work well as part of a team, and who can comfort, reassure and gain the trust of patients as well as their families.
Specialist Nursing
With a variety of recruitment sourcing tools at their disposal, our consultants are adept at finding those professionals for roles where a specialist skill is required. Whether it’s an emergency nurse, sexual health nurse or any other specialist, our team have the skills and resources to find them
Permanent Nursing
Our team of dedicated permanent placement consultants are committed to finding the right people who will add value on a long-term basis to our clients. Our team are skilled at matching skills and knowledge to detailed job specifications and take time to understand the environment and personal attributes required to ensure a suitable team fit within the organisation.
Allied Health & Health Sciences
With a specialist team, we have a detailed and thorough understanding of each profession and work closely with our clients to understand the unique skills required for each role.
We source and place:
- Dietitians
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Radiographers
- Speech and Language Therapists
- Podiatrists
Specialist Recruitment
Whilst SCP Recruitment is an expert within the Health and Social Care marketplace, our expertise also extends to those situations where a slightly different approach is required.
Senior and Expert
There are situations where there is a need to recruit for a specialist role or where specific skills and experience are required. That may be a Director or Senior Manager or a niche skill for a particular requirement. Our consultants work with candidates and clients to form an individual strategy, to suit individual needs and always in the strictest confidence.
We understand how difficult it is to find professionals with a unique skill-set or to find that next great career move to put specialist knowledge to good use and our team will go the extra mile. Using a variety of recruitment and selection tools with a proactive approach, our dedicated team aim to deliver results that add significant value to any organisation or career path.
International Recruitment
The job of all of us here at SCP Recruitment is to find great people and great organisations and put them together and we are able to do that across the globe.
We have a wealth of overseas partners in Europe and Australia enabling us to source the very best candidates through an international network and find the best opportunities for those professionals wanting to use their skills outside the UK. Many of our team have worked overseas and understand the logistics of relocation and working in another country and that understanding helps for a smooth transition for both candidate and client.
Coupled with our overseas partners, we also attend overseas job fairs and have a strong social media strategy to put us in touch with the very best across the world. With technological advances, we can communicate regularly and face-to-face with potential candidates, helping them to understand and feel comfortable with the process and making the world seem a smaller place.
Relocation and After Care
Once we have introduced a candidate to a client, we don’t just stop there. We know there will be worries and concerns and our aim is to guide, support and ensure everyone feels comfortable about the exciting opportunity ahead. We put together local guides to help familiarise with the new local area:
- Accommodation providers
- Local Doctors and Dentists and how to register
- Shops, Supermarkets and Pharmacies
- Local Buses, Railways and Taxis
- Tourist Information and local landmarks
We keep in touch and support candidates and clients after the start date to ensure all parties are happy and can get on with the job of delivering their service.
Tailored Recruitment Campaigns
There will be times when a campaign approach is required, perhaps for larger numbers for a new opening or a strategic approach to address skills shortages. With our Health and Social Care expertise and access to wider group resources we have the ability tailor a campaign specific to organisations and project manage to deliver results when they are needed. This expertise also extends to large overseas recruitment campaigns where we manage the whole process on behalf of our clients ensuring a quality, trouble free service to deliver resources on a large scale.
Permanent Recruitment
The SCP Recruitment team have well over 30 years combined experience of placing permanent candidates within health and social care. We understand that recruiting good quality staff can prove time consuming and costly and our mission is to make that process more efficient and cost-effective.
Our comprehensive recruitment service delivers a full end-to-end solution from identifying specific requirements, sourcing suitably qualified candidates through to a job offer and post-placement review.
The Benefits
- All roles are advertised using professional sources such as local press, online job boards and specialist journals, as well as by drawing on our vast database of applicants
- Our ‘After Care Service’ ensures the best possible start, keeping in touch with both candidate and client throughout the first 3 months
- We screen all applications and only pass over those that meet the required specification
- Our competitive introductory fees include a rebate scheme if the placement is unsuitable (terms apply)
Interim
There are occasions where an interim placement is required such as maternity leave or long-term sickness. Depending on the length required, our team will ascertain the requirement and put together a cost-effective solution. Additionally, when a permanent appointment is required or has been made, there may be an interim solution required until the suitable candidate starts. Our temporary staffing team are able to facilitate, working closely with permanent team to ensure staffing capacity is maintained throughout the process.
The Candidate Experience
Searching for a new opportunity can be stressful and our aim is to make the experience enjoyable and hassle-free. Our approach is to work on an individual basis, understanding needs, wants and where skills and experience are best suited.
- We will always communicate when it’s convenient
- We will ensure that all communication remains in confidence
- We will help with CV preparation
- We will never exert undue pressure to attend an interview or to take a position
Social Care
Since we started in 2006, social care has been at the heart of everything we do at SCP Recruitment. We have built a strong reputation based on quality and value for money, working closely with our clients and workforce to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Our areas of expertise include: