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We take great pride in matching the ideal staff in the most suitable settings and are passionate about the professional and supportive service we provide our clients and candidates.
Because our job roles involve staff working with vulnerable adults and children, we have a duty to ensure that all the staff we supply have been vetted appropriately, and we will ensure our vetting service matches your specific requirements.
Should healthcare candidates require additional qualifications to increase their skillset for a particular role, we provide a range of courses using our bespoke e-learning programme.
We put our success down to our excellent knowledge of the sector, rigorous quality and safeguarding standards, superb consultant training and a commitment to helping both our staff and candidates grow and develop as professionals.
Our consultants have a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector and are passionate about providing solutions to fulfil all clients’ requirements, no matter what time frame is agreed.
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September 20,2017
Britain is now the eighth largest industrial nation
Despite the persisting uncertainty of Brexit, growth has returned to the British manufacturing sector, and it has climbed up to the world’s 8th largest industrial nation.
The UK has climbed one place since last year, and according to the EEF, annual manufacturing output is worth more than £183 billion.
The manufacturer’s group said that the largest sector is food and drink (16%), while the chemicals and pharmaceuticals and transport sectors account for 14% of output each.
Lee Hopley, Chief Economist of EEF, said: “With the focus on industrial strategy, this year we highlight the varying strengths we see across manufacturing sub-sectors, from the strong R&D performance of pharmaceuticals and transport to the high export intensity of machinery and chemicals.”
Manufacturing is spread across the country, with the biggest regional powerhouse in the North West, and strength across the West Midlands and East Midlands across the aerospace and automotive sectors.
Manufacturing currently generates 44% of total UK exports, meaning it is vital for the nation’s future source of income, and will increasingly provide Britain’s link to the world post Brexit.
There are currently £2.6 million people working within the manufacturing sector across the UK, and average earnings have increased from £31,489 to £32,047 which is £3,748 more than the whole economy average pay.
A Business Department spokesman said: “The UK is the fifth largest economy and manufacturing is an important part of our global success as we prepare to leave the European Union.
“Our industrial strategy is supporting the sector, ensuring it can continue to grow and share its success through the creation of good jobs across the whole of the country.”
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September 14,2017
New NHS Ambulance Response Targets Start Across Four Trusts
The roll out of new ambulance response target times has begun across four of England’s ambulance trust services, and more will be moving to the new standards in October.
Trusts in the North West, Yorkshire, West Midlands and South West are delivering the new ARP which Health secretary Jeremy Hunt approved in July this year.
Under the new targets, ambulances will be expected to reach the most seriously ill patients in an average time of seven minutes (previously eight), and the clock will stop only when the most appropriate response arrives on screen, rather than the first.
The new targets apply to every single 999 patient, and could put an end to the “hidden waits” that some patients, including the frail and the elderly, are put through.
In the past, patients with severe issues waited as the vehicles sent to them were unable to transport them to A&E. Not only this, but half the calls received classed as ‘green’ were not covered by a national target, and patients had to wait up to six hours for care.
Chair of NHSCC’s National Ambulance Commissioners Network (NACN) Yvonne Rispin, said: “This change is an important step in enabling the ambulance service to provide patients with the best care possible, within an appropriate timeframe, while also making the most effective use of its resources in the face of rising demand.”
Due to the previous system, not only were the targets largely not being met across the country, a growing number of patients were being turned away from emergency departments due to a lack of capacity.
Trials revealed that the new system could bring faster treatment for patients, saving 250 lives a year, giving 750,000 calls a year an immediate response as well as drive improved care for stroke and heart attack patients.
Professor Jonathan Wenger, NHS England’s national clinical director for Urgent Care, said: “From now on, the bar will be set at 90 percent of calls to be reached in the target times, rather than 75 percent under the old system.”
NHS England have calculated that there will be up to 14,500 occasions each week in England where an additional ambulance is freed for response to the most serious of cases, which will ensure that those in the most need get to an emergency department quicker.
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September 06,2017
CITB buys 16 simulators to help train the next generation of operators
The Construction Industry Training Board has spent £1.2m on 16 plant simulators, in order to fill the operator skills gap.
The investment is part of a wider challenge to find 5000 new plant operators over the next five years.
Trainees and apprentices will be able to test drive excavators, cranes, crawler dozers, telehandlers, tractors, and dumper trucks amongst the wide range of plant machinery.
The simulators have been set up in a dedicated virtual training centre, the National Construction College in Bircham Newton, Norfolk, and were made in Sweden and Canada.
Graham McPhail, Head of Education and Training at CITB, said: “This is the first large scale investment into plant simulator technology anywhere in the UK.
New methods of technology are playing an increasingly important role in construction and this investment will help us modernise the way we train.”
Not only can trainees experience the machinery virtually to gain some practice and familiarity, they can also experience them in all weather conditions. The simulators minimise health and safety risks before a trainee moves onto real machines.
The machines record and analyse how users behave in different situations, and therefore can be helpful in tailoring help to individual needs.
Josh Missin, a 24-year-old plant apprentice from Wisbech, was one of the first to train on the new simulators. He said: “As someone who had never used any form of plant machinery before, I was quite nervous before doing so.
“However, the simulators allowed me to quickly learn how certain controls worked, which meant I felt much more confident when using machines in real life."
Mr Missin believes that they should be used in everyone’s plant apprenticeship training.
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August 23,2017
NHS Digital backs ‘Every nurse is an e-nurse’ campaign
National Health Service IT organisation backs e-nurse campaign with the launch of its first e-nursing week. The RCN's campaign launched in 2016 following previous calls from the RCN to increase nursing input into IT and provide more IT training.
Anne Cooper, chief nurse at NHS Digital, said: “The RCN is absolutely right to be placing such a priority on ensuring nurses across the NHS have the tools, skills and resources they need to make the best use of technology and act as effective e-nurses.”
NHS Digital has pledged to play a supporting role in realising the campaign’s ambition. It will now highlight various elements of e-nursing, to promote effective use of information and digital technologies, including use of technology at bedsides, data-sharing, digital security and the role of apps and wearables in changing care.
In July 2013, a RCN survey of 1000 members found the majority of nurses had no influence on the way technology was used in their workplace. The campaign aims to equip nurses with the skills and tools needed to take advantage of digital technologies.
Janet Davies, chief executive and general secretary at the RCN, said: “Technology and data are transforming healthcare, presenting huge opportunities to improve treatment, patient safety and wellbeing. It’s vital that nurses have the skills they need to make the most of these opportunities, and that’s what this project is all about.”
One University that have been paying attention to technology in healthcare is the University of Manchester. They began training student nurses to record patient observations digitally in 2016. Using a system called Patientrack, allows students to patients’ vital signs at the bedside, and enter them straight into a tablet device.
The RCN congress passed a motion last year that by 2020 every nurse in the UK should have the appropriate digital skills. The areas from the joint report with Health Education England that need to be improved are:
Digital identity, wellbeing, safety & security
Communication, collaboration and participation
Teaching, learning and professional development
Technical proficiency
Information, data and media literacies
Creation, innovation and scholarship
The recent ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack in May 2017 was a wake-up call to the NHS, highlighting that serious attention is given to cyber security from now on. The RCN and NHS Digital spearheading this campaign could potentially bridge the digital skills gap within healthcare, and ensure the NHS is as secure and innovative as it can be.
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August 16,2017
Employer engagement can inspire future engineers
Engineering businesses should offer engagement programmes to primary school students in order to tackle the skills gap, says Simon Biggs, the Education Outreach Officer at global engineering company Renishaw.
Too few young people are deciding to take subjects related to engineering careers, meaning they lack the skills needed for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers.
STEM expertise is crucial in tackling important issues that the climate, economy, and medicine will face in the future, yet not enough young people actually understand what engineering really involves.
It has been forecast that the UK requires 265,000 skilled entrants each year in order to meet employer demand for engineering enterprises.
This doesn’t spell completely bad news though, and perceptions of engineering as a whole have actually grown more positive over the last five years, with the proportion of 11 to 16 year olds who would consider a career in engineering rising from 40% in 2012 to 51% in 2016.
Companies who want to close the impending skills gap may find it difficult to find skilled apprentices because of the lack of outreach to young people about what careers are available to them. For this reason, businesses are beginning to try and improve the profile of engineering to young people, through employer outreach.
School engagement programmes inspire young people to consider a career in engineering, and if companies start with children at a young age, it could solve the skills shortage.
Renishaw hold engagement programmes for year six students aged ten and eleven, to improve perceptions of STEM subjects and encourage pupils to think about STEM careers early on. They also run ad-hoc activities and even a Brownies group.
Evidence from the Education and Employers Taskforce demonstrates the positive role that employer engagement plays in helping young people make good career decisions, as well as impact on future earnings.
The onus for change must be a joint responsibility, by the government, employers, schools and parents, and initiatives like the IET’s Engineering Open House Day can play an important role in sparking an interest in engineering, encouraging children to want to find out more.
Several companies are already offering this kind of outreach, offering school visits, career talks and work experience opportunities, in order to reinforce what a creative and exciting field engineering is to work in.
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August 09,2017
Industry calls for Govt to deliver an industrial strategy for all Brexit scenarios
EEF have published a new strategy named Making the Industrial Strategy Work for UK Manufacturing, following a survey carried out by YouGov which demonstrated a public desire for the UK to be a top five manufacturing nation by output.
The report urges the government to fill in industrial strategy gaps, as an industrial strategy will be a crucial component in managing economic change, regardless of the final Brexit deal.
The data revealed that:
70% of the public think that the UK should aim to be a top five manufacturing nation
82% of adults say a strong manufacturing base is essential for UK economic growth
65% of women would be proud to work in UK manufacturing
8% of manufacturers say the UK has supportive policies for manufacturing, compared to 65% who say Germany does
Steps the Government must take to achieve the strategy:
Set out a clear vision of what a successful outcome for Britain looks like, including clear metrics to track progress
Include a focus on the cost of doing business, which is missing in the strategy.
Provide guidance on the Sector Deals process to clarify the rules and ensure SMEs can engage
Set out a plan to roll out Devolution Deals to all areas in England
Outline how cross-government policy consistency will be achieved, to avoid different departments undermining the objectives of the strategy and each other
What could the strategy help deliver?
Close the productivity gap
Grow businesses with more turnover
Reduce our trade deficit
Increase the diversity of markets we sell to
Keep the UK as an innovation leader in Europe
Catch up with competitors in automation technology
A greater economic growth
Ms Lee Hopley, EEF Chief Economist, said: “The UK is facing a potentially game changing point as we leavr the EU whilst the sector is also on the cusp of massive technological change and grappling with long-term investment decisions.
Industry will have to be nimble in navigating challenges and quickly grasping new opportunities in order to fulfil public ambition for Britain to be a dominant manufacturing nation.”
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August 01,2017
REC promotes agency worker engagement
Partnering with the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA), the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) have published a report regarding how employers should promote workplace engagement amongst temporary staff, by applying the same approach as they do with permanent employees.
The report, called ‘Tune into temps: how employers and recruiters can support agency worker voice in the workplace’ provides innovative recommendations about promoting employee voice and staff engagement.
To deliver business benefits such as a rise in productivity, reducing sickness absence and conflict, the following recommendations to employers have been revealed:
Ensure agency workers receive a proper induction
Foster relationships with agency workers by giving regular feedback, or even formal appraisals for those on longer assignments
Make sure agency workers are treated as part of the team when on assignment, receiving informal benefits like inclusion in staff activities and social events
Understand the motivations for someone working in a temporary way and place them in assignments that support their needs
Make sure workers feel comfortable about raising concern about a placement without fear of penalty
Ensure workers are supported with their professional development throughout their employment with access to training and placements that provide an opportunity to develop skills and progress
Kevin Green, REC chief executive, said: “It’s about treating people with respect and extending the same approach managers would take with permanent staff in terms of giving inductions, providing feedback and making sure temps feel welcome and included.”
Patrick Brione, head of policy and research at IPA, said: “Too often in the past regarded as ‘second class’ members of the workforce, agency workers and their hirers have sometimes missed out on the benefits of a highly engaged workforce. This report shows why this does not have to be the case.”
The report reveals that 1.2 million workers are placed into temporary/contract jobs every day, and agency workers are becoming a key part of the workforce, with the average length of assignment being 17 weeks.
According to the latest JobsOutlook by the REC, 45% of employers are expecting to face a shortage of suitable candidates over the next year. The report suggests that businesses may be turning to temporary workers to meet demand as permanent hiring becomes more difficult.
Flexible working is a great success story in the UK economy, and as employers strive to meet peaks in demand and access key skills in the short term, engaging the temporary workforce should be a business imperative.
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July 25,2017
Being funny is the most important teacher trait
Humour and wit make a lasting impression. They reduce stress and frustration, and give people a chance to look at their circumstances from another point of view. A great teacher develops a strong rapport with students and establishes trusting relationships.
Perhaps this is why the top characteristic primary and secondary students’ value the most is for their teacher to be funny. TES asked more than 3,000 students from primary, secondary and special schools about what makes a teacher truly great, and the results were truly interesting.
Although the surveys suggests that both primary and secondary children think the perfect teacher requires a mix of personal touch and essential teaching skills, ‘funny’ came out on top for all ages.
In a time where pupil wellbeing is under the microscope, it is worth admitting that student-teacher relationships are integral to learning, and the question on academics lips is, should we take their thoughts on this seriously?
It may be easy, as they are young, to dismiss these claims as immaturity or not vital to teaching, yet it has highlighted a huge factor of what teaching is all about – being ‘human’ – and why should that be ignored instead of celebrated?
Humour, when used in conjunction with a strong behaviour management system, can be liberating for stressed out students, can be important in diffusing difficult situations, and highlights a certain amount of respect for the students, which in turn can help them to relate to the teacher.
Here are the Primary and Secondary pupils’ ranking of the characteristics that every teacher should possess:
Primary
Funny
Helpful/supportive
Good listener
Friendly
Fair
Approachable
Kind
Passionate
Inspiring
Knowledgeable
Patient
Organised
Fun
Rewarding
Trustworthy
Respectful
Happy
Understanding
Creative
Genuine
Believe in you
Reliable
Good at explaining
Strict ‘at the right time’
Generous
Secondary
Funny
Fair
Understanding
Helpful/supportive
Good listener
Inspiring
Knowledgeable
Patient
Passionate
Fun
Respectful
Good speaker
Trustworthy
Confident
Reliable
Approachable
Organised
Kind
Rewarding
Friendly
Gives chances
Accepting
Calm
Good at explaining
Adaptable
All is not lost if you’re a teacher who considers themselves lacking in the comedic department, and humour can be as easy as making light of familiar things that we notice about life, to strike a chord with the students. Nobody is saying you need a long list of ‘Knock Knock’ jokes here.
It all comes down to discipline - and if you can be an expert in your field, maintain a level of control, and make the kids laugh every now and then, it should not undermine your authority.
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July 20,2017
NHS Remains The Number One Healthcare System
The NHS, which celebrated its 69th birthday on 5th July, is currently experiencing serious understaffing, disruption, and a long serving budget squeeze, yet it has clung onto the top spot and has been named the best, safest, and most affordable healthcare system out of 11 countries.
It is the second time in a row that the UK has finished top, in the recent US think tank research by the Commonwealth Fund, which is undertaken every three years.
Each nation’s healthcare provision was revealed through questionnaires completed by doctors and patients, and ranked through five different quality measures – ease of healthcare, equality of access, administrative efficiency, results, and the quality of the care process for patients.
The rankings
UK
Australia
Netherlands
Norway
New Zealand
Sweden
Switzerland
Germany
Canada
France
United States
The UK came first in four out of 11 categories, being judged to deliver the safest care, be the best at care processes, provide the most affordable care, and offer the most equity.
In the US, 44 per cent of people on low incomes were found to have difficulty accessing healthcare, compared to just seven per cent in the UK.
Jeremy Hunt, England’s Health Secretary, said: “These outstanding results are a testament to the dedication of NHS staff, who despite pressure on the front line are delivering safer, more compassionate care than ever.”
The experts however did conclude that the UK does poorly in healthcare outcomes – in which the UK came tenth. This covers general health of the population, early deaths and cancer survival among other measures.
An NHS England spokesperson said: “This international research is a welcome reminder of the fundamental strengths of the NHS, and a call to arms in support of the NHS Forward View practical plan to improve cancer, mental health and other outcomes of care.”
PM Theresa May has told the chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens, to ensure that the service uses its £120bn annual budget more efficiently.
News & Blog
July 12,2017
Why nurses want more hospitals to use animal therapy
Hospitals are set to receive guidance about using animal therapy in hospitals in a move that aims to encourage healthcare settings to enable patients to see their pets, after research shows how animals can improve patient care.
University Hospital in Southampton have already been offering animal therapy for five years, and Amanda Cheesley, who is leading the new initiative with the RCN, says that it is about more than just having a pet to stroke.
The NHS Foundation Trust is helping to shape the future of animal assisted intervention, by running the pilot project with Pets as Therapy and The Humanimal Trust, finding out first-hand about the effects of animals on patients’ health and wellbeing.
The study has been led by dog handlers with their therapy dogs, one of whom is golden retriever Leo. “Leo has worked with young people who are terrified of needles; he’s there until the child goes to sleep, and is there when they wake up.
“It should be more of the norm rather than the exception. In particular settings, like mental health and children’s settings, it can be really, really beneficial,” said Cheesley.
The RCN recently carried out a study of 750 nurses, and 60% of participants in the study thought that the presence of animals could help speed up physical recovery.
Although the attitude towards the initiative appears positive, currently 60% also said that animals were not allowed in their workplace, signalling risk-averse hospital staff.
Nine out of 10 nurses who took part in the study believed that animals can improve the wellbeing of patients with mental health problems such as depression.
Animals can have a profound effect on the health and wellbeing of the people who care for them, so every nurse should consider this when compiling patients’ care plans, according to mental health training team leader Bronwen Williams, for 2gether Foundation Trust.
As animals are often a great support in helping their owners feel secure, happy and relaxed, Williams feels that nurses should do their best to understand what has meaning in patients’ lives, including their animals.
Lyndsey Uglow, who has been visiting patients at Southampton Children’s Hospital, said: “We know from the constant anecdotal feedback we receive from patients, families, staff and members of the public just what a positive impact our visits have on patients and their families, and that in itself provides an immense feeling of satisfaction.”
The RCN organisation is in the process of drawing up guidelines for medical institutions regarding how to use animal therapy safely and efficiently. It will require animals and their handlers to be properly trained, covering basic protocols such as health check-ups and inoculation.
New guidelines are set to be published in September/October this year, and according to Cheesley it doesn’t need to be unique to dogs, and there are other animals who could be appropriately trained. For hospitals who already have protocols in place for guide dogs, the new guidelines should be easy to follow.
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