Appoint Healthcare and Bupa Healthcare have enjoyed a long and prosperous working partnership, with Appoint Healthcare serving as their primary supplier for permanent clinical positions in the UK.

After the initial wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bupa encountered an unprecedented shortage of caregivers and nurses, a challenge mirrored across the healthcare industry.

They approached us with a business-critical task: recruiting 150 nurses and caregivers within 3 months and on an exclusive basis. This project spanned various locations throughout the UK, including some of their most remote and challenging service areas to find suitable applicants.

Time was of the essence, and the consequences of not meeting this demand were significant.

Appoint Healthcare rose to the challenge… After extensive consultations with Bupa’s recruitment team and decision-makers, we meticulously crafted a proposal that was approved by their procurement team.

Our proposal involved a substantial reallocation of our internal resources to ensure we had the necessary team to ensure the projects was successful. At its core, this project was a testament to our ability to attract and engage with Bupa’s desired talent pool. But its success was also dependent on a harmonious partnership with Bupa’s internal recruitment and onboarding team.

This undertaking marked a considerable increase in activity for Bupa’s talent acquisition and onboarding efforts. To ease this added workload, our offering included comprehensive embedded recruitment process outsourcing, extending to outsourced onboarding procedures.

The Challenge: Exemplar Health Care struggled for four months to fill a crucial home manager role before the opening of a new care home. With time running out and the right candidate still elusive, they turned to us for help.

Our Approach: Recognizing the urgency, we prioritized this role, focusing on candidates with extensive management experience and a deep understanding of the care sector. Despite the pressure, Exemplar commendably maintained their high talent acquisition standards and expectations, as we worked quickly to deliver. Within three weeks, we provided a shortlist of top-tier candidates, aligning with Exemplar’s interview schedule.

The Results: Following a two-stage interview process, one of our candidates was hired and started in time for the care home’s grand opening, ensuring a smooth and successful launch.

The Challenge: Rushcliffe Care Group, a specialist provider, faced the challenge of staffing their newly commissioned acute mental health hospital. With only one ward operational and more to open, they needed a full multidisciplinary team, including permanent Nurses and Support Workers, and sought a trusted partner to manage this large-scale recruitment.

Our Approach: Appoint Healthcare was brought on exclusively. We developed a comprehensive candidate attraction strategy to source the high-quality talent needed.

Over the next 9 months, we utilised a mix of targeted sourcing methods, including a dedicated advertising campaign and building a custom referral network.

This resulted in an impressive hit rate of just 2 CV’s submitted for every placement made and started, highlighting the quality of candidates we presented. Special emphasis was placed on saving Rushcliffe’s team time during the recruitment process, so they could focus on the operational aspects of running the hospital and delivering exceptional patient care.

The Results: Within 9 months, we successfully made 58 permanent placements at Rushcliffe’s new hospital, consisting of 16 Staff Nurses and 42 Support Workers. Our efforts filled the vast majority of their required vacancies (the others being filled directly), facilitating the opening of additional wards and continued delivery of high-quality mental health services.

The Challenge: In early 2022, Elysium Healthcare needed to fill 8 critical nurse vacancies for a new CAMHS and eating disorder hospital set to open in April. These specialised roles required urgent recruitment of highly experienced candidates in a challenging sector.

Our Approach: As Elysium’s exclusive recruitment partner, we quickly identified the required qualifications and experience. Using our extensive network and targeted sourcing strategies, we provided a shortlist of top candidates within four weeks. All 8 vacancies were successfully filled, ensuring the hospital opened with a full nursing team.

The Results: Our swift and effective recruitment filled the nurse positions on time, supporting the hospital’s successful launch and maintaining Elysium’s high standards of care.