hello guys welcome back to my channel thank you so much for clicking on this video in today's
video i'm going to be sharing with you how to know and work with the best nursing and carer agencies
in the united kingdom so in one of my videos recently i shared a vlog of me going out for
an agency shift and i got some questions there and i also got an idea of this video you know
so basically in this video i'm going to be sharing with you awesome tips things
that you need to know before registering with an agency and also the common requirements of most
uk agencies whether you want to work with them as a nurse or as a carer so let's get right into it
you're new here hello welcome to my channel thank you so much for clicking on this video my name is
victoria i'm a registered nurse here in the uk and on this channel i share my niger lifestyle
here in the united kingdom and if you are already an existing subscriber or viewer
hey shop knuckle thank you so much for coming back thank you for your support i
really appreciate it so first thing first you need to know that a lot of agencies in the uk
a very old lot and choosing to work with the right set of agencies can be daunting like it can really
be a hard decision especially if you are new in the country so the first thing to know is that
most agencies in fact let me say all agencies i'm not sure because i haven't worked with all
agencies but let me say most agencies actually require you to work at least six months in the
capacity in which you want to work with them that is if you are applying to a particular agency to
work with them as a nurse that means that they require you to have worked as a nurse in the uk
for the past six months that is you have at least six months experience of working as a
nurse same applies to being a carer so if you are planning to work with an agency you know
as a carer they expect you to have at least six months experience as a carer in the united kingdom
make sure you watch this video to the very end because at the end of this video i'm going to be
sharing with you a list of curated agencies like allegiances don't you want me already
a to make sense and i'm going to be sharing them with you at the end of this video
the second thing that you need to know is that they need your trainings to be up to date
so mainly they will ask you they have got some trainings that you've done so you present to them
your training certificate but if you don't have they usually have some kind of in-house training
um center or in-house training website where you can actually go ahead and take trainings
before you can join them as a nurse or a carer another thing that you need to know is most of
these agencies actually work with care homes while some work with the nhs and there are some agencies
that actually work with boats they work with nhs and they work with care home so when you are
joining an agency when you are registering with an agency it is important that you ask questions like
ask questions ask us as ask questions so if you only want to be doing an extra sheet or taking up
agency shift in an nhs hospital it won't make sense for you to register with an agency that
doesn't have an affiliation with the nhs you know you need to read more about them online before you
actually proceed to registering with them another tip that i want to give you is before joining any
agency it's important that you go online and check out who they are here in the uk something that i
noticed that i have come to really appreciate is the power of reviews like people can leave reviews
there's hardly anything in this uk that people are consuming or people are buying or anything like
that that doesn't leave a room for review so on their website there are always a bunch of reviews
go to the website and look through check their reviews see if you are comfortable with what the
existing agency workers are actually saying about that particular agency so this will help you this
will give you an informed decision about whether or not you want to join us this is even much more
advisable that you get referred from a colleague that means the colleague is already working with
them converts for them knows how they do things wrong things and is actually comfortable with them
that is an even better way because by that you know that you're not just going to register with
an agency blindly so when you finally pass the registration phase of registering with an agency
you know you've passed the compliance um stage and everything the next thing will be for you
to actually be getting agency shipped and this is something that i really want to dwell on so when
getting agencies should be sure that you are going to somewhere that you are very very comfortable
with like i said during your registration they will have asked for your address and everything
so any hospital or care home they are asking you to go to will be within a reasonable mile
to where you currently stay i have a pro tip for you and that is always check google map before you
accept any agency [ __ ] like when they call you and they tell you oh it is five miles away from
you so so so and so and then you don't go and cross check on google map and then you you you
accept the shift and then to get there is now an issue because the thing is it might say oh it will
take you like 45 minutes by bus to get there and so and then you get it and then when it is time
for you to go you see that oh this thing is over one hour for me to get to this particular care
or nhs hospital they are asking me to go to this is why it is important for you to check
your google map before you actually accept any agency shifts because when you check your google
map and you impute the actual time that you plan on leaving your home for that particular
nhs hospital or care home it will give you the exact range of the time that you will spend
on the road and this will help you to actually make an informed decision to know whether you want
to spend such an amount of time on the road before you get to where you're going so it's important
that you check the room up every time another thing that i do before i accept agency shift
is that i check the name of the camera like i go online i mean google is just so oh my god oh god
who else is feeling what i am feeling like my my my soul my heart always blesses guru at
fact every time like anything you just go on google you search and all the information is
there like are we not so blessed i look through the sides i look through what they offer i look
through the reviews that people have left both the residence relative and the you know people working
there primarily i check for their reviews and see how the home is if i feel like the home is not
okay or there are a lot of bad reviews or people are complaining of a lot of things about them
if my spirit doesn't agree with it i just say no i cancel the [ __ ] and i don't go for it
another important thing when taking up agency shifts is that you need to be sure of the prices
before you go like most of them actually have an app yeah like a half way you can see the sheets
available and pick the sheets and sometimes they just call you directly and just tell you
oh this shift is available so so and so so don't think because you've worked there before and it
was let's say it wasn't 15 pounds an hour i just feel like oh it's 15 pounds an hour always confirm
the price per hour before you accept the sheet and if possible try and knot it down so that
even at the end of the day there's any uh misunderstanding or anything or when you
receive your pay sleep and it's not correlating with what you are told you'll be able to raise
a concern and let them know oh this is what i was told this wasn't what i was told that
and the thing that i love about this uk also is that everything like all of listings everything
they are calling you they are recording everything so nobody can lie don't just go back
to the recording and they will share kids and you know everything is sorted i mean that was helped
another pro tip that i would like to share with you is don't you ever ever ever
be co-asked into working in a place where you don't want to go like don't don't say oh because
because really i've noticed that the agency consultant i think is part of their training
the way they will talk to you when your phone they will talk to you like as if you are they are lost
or i think they are the only hope that they've got i mean like if you don't go the residents or the
patients will suffer they will know how they knows don't stop don't buy that don't buy it
if you don't feel fine or you feel that your schedule is tight you can't go for it
cucumber said that you can't go and decline genjarly don't go and collect it and at the end of
the day you're not able to go there you're telling them at five minutes to or something that you know
it is bringing out your reputation with them so only accept the shift that you're comfortable with
and you know that you have enough time to prepare yourself to actually go for the sheets because
there are usually a lot of impromptu calls you know oh we need you to cover this [ __ ] in the
next 30 minutes so only go for the ones that you are really really really comfortable with i know
that this video has been all over the place but i hope that all these things i have talked about can
help you and will help you in one way or the other and like i promised in the description box below
i'll be leaving you a link where you can see all my recommended agencies here in the united kingdom
tested and trusted it is um going to be on the google google google what is it called it's going
to be in the google document so you will have access to it however it will be an ongoing thing
so as i know about more agencies i'm going to be adding them to it and if there are complaints
about some agencies or i'm no longer sure about them i'm going to remove them from the list i
hope this video has been helpful thank you so much guys for watching if you have any more questions
please let me know in the comments section and also if you have any video requests please let
me know in the comments section thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in my next video
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