so in today's video i'm going to be sharing with you the step-by-step process of how
you can relocate into the uk as a health care assistant or a senior carer via the health and
care visa routes even if you do not have any else background like you don't have a health background
yes it's possible and you can i've got a lot of people asking me about this visa route how
to go about it and all that but i wanted to get my facts right and at the moment i've got some people
coming into the uk like anytime soon they've already gotten their certificate of sponsorship
that is the cos and they are coming into the uk as healthcare assistant even though they did not
study anything relating to nothing or relating to health so it is something that you are interested
in please keep watching please don't forget to like this video leave your comments below
and share this video with your friend i'm sure there's somebody
somebody in your circle that is interested in relocating into the united kingdom
as a healthcare assistant and as a bonus i've put together a checklist that will help you
and serves as a guide to you in this journey to coming into the uk as a healthcare assistant
so just go through the link in the description box below it'll be the very first link that you'll see
in my description box just down there click on the link and you'll be able to download this
checklist and you can just tick off the things on the checklist as you get them done so basically
in this video i'm going to be talking about the requirements for being a healthcare assistant
here in the united kingdom the cost implication the agencies that you need to be talking to the
agencies that i have seen doing these and they have results do you even need an english exam
do you need to have your eye held what's the cut-off what's the band what branch will you be
aiming for all of these are many more i'm going to be talking about in this video so sit tight
grab your daughter and your pen and keep watching you here hello my name is victoria and i am a
nurse i'm a blogger and i'm a nigerian currently residing in the united kingdom on this channel
i share my nigel lifestyle here in the united kingdom and i love to give useful information
just like this so please make sure to stick around so if you are watching this i want to assume
that you know what a healthcare assistant does but if you don't i'm going to give you a quick
overview so healthcare assistants work as part of the nursing team and they work to give care
and support to people usually in the care homes they work in the nhs also but i haven't really
seen um cos being generated from the nhs i haven't i don't say that it's not possible it hasn't been
going on but i have not most of the series that have been seen are from care homes or supports or
agencies that recruit support worker so basically what you've been doing is giving support and care
to people especially people who are vulnerable the elderly children giving care and support to them
as part of the nursing team so basically that is what a healthcare assistant or senior carer does
if you want to learn more about that you can check on google and be able to get more information
about that so what are the requirements basically you need to be educated the minimum education
requirement that i have seen is that you must have a senior school living certificate that
is you must have passed through secondary school basically there are some agencies that say oh they
only accept graduates the only ones graduates and there are some agencies that you don't really need
to have a higher education just be educated like minimum education ssce and you are good to go
of course you need to have a passport you need to have your nigerian passport or whatever country
that you are in you need your passports i mean your nationality passports is that even correct
but you need your passport sir another major thing that you need is work placement um
requirements so you are coming into the uk to work as a healthcare assistant as a senior carer you
need to have um experience of what you are coming in to do so if you are already in the healthcare
system probably you trained as an auxiliary nurse or you are an healthcare assistant already
in a hospital in your country you already have your work placement experience so that experience
is what they need now let's say that you do not have any of that what you need to do is to attach
yourself to a hospital go to a hospital to meet them and say oh you want to train as a healthcare
assistant or as a carer is there another name we call it in nigeria i'm not sure there's another
name that's we call it in nigeria or in other african countries but i think it's still that
health care assistance yeah so just let them know that i want to train as an healthcare assistant
of course many of them will ask you to pay to be trained which you should be ready to do so train
as an healthcare assistant because this experience is important and you'll be needing a reference
from that hospital to say that yes you have trained and worked as a healthcare assistant
for so so number of months in their hospital and usually i think the current requirement
is that you have at least 300 hours as a healthcare assistant in your own country
if it is different i'm going to put it on the screen so you need to have at least 300 hours
as a healthcare assistant by time you get this training or by the time you start this training
and you'll be able to have an idea even though it's not everything you'll be doing in the uk and
niger health system or other consciousness system might it's kind of different in some ways
but at least you have an idea and if you cannot cope with you know being an healthcare assistant
in your country there's no way you'll be able to cope in the uk so i think that is a good
way for you to actually um assess yourself and know whether or not to be able you know to do this
kind of job another thing that you need and it's important is eye health that's your english exam
like i said earlier see some of these requirements they are agency based i don't know why honestly
because i believe everybody is coming to this same uk they are coming to do the same work and still
one agency will say this another agency will say this i don't understand but really there are some
agents you know like i said earlier that there are some agencies that only accept graduates they
just said they want to graduate now for those kind of agencies i've noticed that they don't request
for ielts they don't ask you for english exam but for agencies that accept the minimum
educational requirements such as ssce they require you to have your eye health
so for the ielts the band the minimum band that you should be aiming for is 4.5 that's the minimum
band of ielts that you need to have another thing that some of these agencies require of you
is your driving license they expect you to be able to drive because most of the times
when you get to the uk you'll be working from home to home you'll be giving support and care
to people in their homes and usually you move from one home to another they expect you to have
a driving license or at least other international driving permits which will help you to be able to
drive in the uk at least for the first year when you get into the uk so this will make it easy
for you to move from one home to another home but this i don't think this is a deal breaker
but if you can it is something i should aim to have another thing that you will need
is please clearance it is similar to what we call dbs here in the uk so it's um like i said
you'll be working with vulnerable adults so they want to know that you are not a criminal
that you do not have offenses to your name in your country or any other country that you have
so you need a police clearance and you will also need a tuberculosis test clearance because you'll
be coming into the uk to work for more than six months and the law is we are staying more than six
months in the uk at any point in time you've got to do the tb tests you know to be sure that you
don't have tuberculosis and another thing that you need to get together is your cv your curriculum
vitae put your cvs together i shared a video of your friend who showed how to do a cv recently on
this channel though it was a nursing cv but you can actually use that also as your cv template
when um making this application so you know these are like the main job requirements that
is expected that is required of you if you want to work as a senior carer or as a health care
assistant in the united kingdom and like i said different agencies with different requirements
but basically that's like the baseline of the requirements that's the requests from you so in
the description box below also i'm going to be linking some of these agencies so make sure to
check them out and by the time you contact them of course they will give you their own specific
requirements which will most likely not be so different from what i have already talked about
in this video now to the costs let's talk money getting your certificate of sponsorship
to come into the uk to work as a senior carer or a care assistant comes with a cost
and you're going to spend money yes you're going to spend money let's start from the agencies
the agencies they'll collect their own money they'll collect like their uh their feeding
their agency fees for trying to help you because they are like middlemen between you looking for a
job and employers looking for employees so they are made women they are going to collect money
from you and from what i have seen so far the average that agencies collect is around 2 000
pounds it doesn't mean that you're going to pay this at once boom most of them actually
give you an option to spread the cost across three months six months you know as the case may be just
have it at the back of your mind that agency fee is on the average it's going to be around
2000 pounds and you can spread it across several months now apart from agency fee you need to put
into consideration the cost of the trading that you get in your own country that is in the country
that you will be in i mean in your particular country where you'll be training as a healthcare
assistant you need to put us into consideration they are also going to charge you they are going
to build you that you are coming to train as a healthcare assistant you need to factor that in
also if you be writing the ielts exam you'll be writing the um ielts uk vi and at the
present i think it costs around 80 000 naira um it might be different if you are not a nigerian
but you need to actually factor that also in getting your passport your driver's license
is going to cost you money also getting your tb test done is also going to cost you money i
think the tv test right now is around 50 60 000 naira it's going to cost you money also
getting your police clearance also might cost you money getting your police um certificates that
you're not a criminal you're of good behavior might also cost you money so all these costs
actually add up and like i said you are not required to actually put everything down bam
bam you know by time you start your process with any agency you choose to work with you you'll be
going they will also help you they'll support you you know go through it with you go through
the steps with you all through the way so it's not like you're putting everything down together
but to get started you need to have this idea that you're going to have something around 3 000 pounds
i mean you're going to be spending around 3 000 pounds for this and by the time you get
your certificate of sponsorship most of the employers don't pay for your flight tickets
they might pay for your visa they might pay for your cos which is certificate of sponsorship but
most of them will not pay for your flight and some will not pay for your accommodation when you get
to the uk some might pay for your accommodation for the first one month while some may not so it's
there's a lot of money involved just have that at the back of your mind i will estimate um with
the visa and everything i will estimate how much are going to spend to around four thousand pounds
yeah to around four thousand pounds so have that at the back of your it might not be up to that and
it might be more than that so this is just on the average you know as someone who has worked with
people who have already gone through this process so now that you know the requirements the costs
and the things that you need to do to get yourself a job in the united kingdom as a healthcare
assistant what exactly is the time frame how much time are we talking about from the time when
you decide i want to come to the uk as a healthcare assistant to the time when you get
yourself down here the time frame is around six months depending on whether or not you have that
healthcare experience already so if you have the health care experience already it will even be
shorter so the purpose for which i have made this video is to get you going so if you have
the intention of getting into the uk you know as a healthcare assistant or a senior carer
you already know the requirements now you already know what is expected of you now so start planning
start planning by starting planning i mean if you are not in the healthcare system yet
you need to get yourself attached to a hospital and start learning the ropes of being a health
care assistant at least that one will be out of the way so that by the time you are ready and
you're contacting agencies you're ready you are you are you you are you are you are approaching
them prepared you know you are approaching them with your certificate with this with that that
you are ready you know to go ahead and to go on i hope i really covered everything that needs
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