A fresh approach to healthcare recruitment

There’s a reason why Sanctuary Health is a trusted supplier to hundreds of healthcare employers nationwide and on framework to supply qualified staff through Crown Commercial Service (CCS), Collaborative Procurement Partnership (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe. It’s simple. We place people and clinical governance at the heart of everything we do. Our healthcare consultants have an exceptional understanding of frontline pressures and the need for robust compliance so that you can employ with confidence. When it comes to finding you high calibre candidates, nobody is better placed to help.

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Smarter healthcare recruitment starts here. Relieve your short-term resourcing issues today and build a more resilient long-term workforce for tomorrow.

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We always place people first. Yes, we are a large health and social care recruitment business, but we’ll never be too big to care.

Sanctuary Personnel were very helpful to Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP) over the last 18 months of their service operations. They supplied a number of very good quality candidates to the service in roles of nurses and recovery workers and worked with the service to bring candidates into roles in a timely way within the costs of the service. They dealt directly with the electronic NHS Trust infrastructure to arrange timesheets and invoices. The consultants established a very good knowledge of the service ad had very good understanding of the roles required to deliver services. They visited NRP to meet team leads to understand the changing needs and responded promptly if difficulties occurred.

Chris Strivens

Head of Clinical Practice

I have found Sanctuary to be fast, reliable and with a sound understanding of Substance Misuse and the qualities required in a candidate. The people they have supplied have been first class in terms of attitude, experience, knowledge and flexibility. They have sound processes around administration and respond to requests promptly and professionally.

Chris Ranson

Team Manager

We have worked with Sanctuary for a number of years and have an excellent working relationship. They have a high level of integrity as a recruiter and put forward only those fully compliant candidates who closely match our requirements. We would have no hesitation in recommending Sanctuary for their excellent, cost-effective service.

Clare Cripps

Temporary Staffing Bookings and Requests Lead

Sanctuary Personnel have been supplying AWP with nursing staff for some time and I can honestly say that they have been a pleasure to work with. They have a real understanding of the staffing pressures that we face and their help has been invaluable to keep our wards staffing at required level, consultants are diligent in finding us the dependable, reliable and knowledgeable staff both Qualified and Healthcare Assistants. I would certainly be happy to recommend Sanctuary Personnel.

Clare Pittaway

Bank Team Leader

Explore your recruitment options

We have an evergreen supply of healthcare candidates across every medical discipline, recruiting HCAs, nurses, doctors as well as allied health, health science, imaging and mental health professionals and non-clinical personnel. We match high calibre qualified professionals, with the rights skills, experience and attitude, to your exact needs. Whether you require an individual specialist or a multidisciplinary team, we know how to find just the right people, and fast.

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Healthcare Staffing Solutions

There’s a reason why we are a preferred health and social care resourcing partner to more than 400 public sector organisations, including the NHS, and high-profile charities and private organisations. It’s simple. We place people first. Our healthcare consultants offer an award-winning service. A service that appreciates frontline pressures and the importance of clinical governance. The healthcare candidates we support trust us to find them highly suitable positions. This is why we have one of the most comprehensive far-reaching communities of healthcare candidates in the UK.For our clients, this means we can recruit the right person, for the right role, every time. We do this whilst operating one of the most vigorous candidate safeguarding and compliance processes in our sector. Explore your healthcare resourcing options At Sanctuary Health, we believe in a sweet spot in healthcare recruitment; a place where client and candidate needs are met, without fail. Healthcare employers who chose to partner with Sanctuary Health value this. They trust us to resolve their resourcing pain points. This can be on a managed service basis or you might simply need a resourcing service you can plug into as and when you need support. Being an on-framework supplier to the NHS and a preferred supplier to public, voluntary and private sector organisations across the UK, we’ve made it as easy as possible to access our services. Locum healthcare recruitmentOur specialist locum healthcare resourcing teams have created trusted relationships with candidates throughout the UK, even in traditionally hard-to-resource localities.Whether you are a rural employer contending with the pull of out-of-county employers or you are a City-based employer caring for the rapidly increasing needs of a growing population, we can help.At Sanctuary Health, we love nothing more than a challenge. If you have contract or ad hoc healthcare roles you are finding difficult to resource, we have just the right answer. Permanent healthcare recruitmentOur 360-degree permanent healthcare recruitment service is an attractive option for healthcare employers looking to create the very best healthcare teams. We can quickly resource permanent professionals across the entire spectrum, from the most promising newly qualified healthcare professional to the most experienced specialists working in niche practice areas.Want to find out more? Contact us today!

Healthcare Compliance Services

Placing highly qualified experienced candidates doesn’t happen by chance. It only happens in a highly regulated, process driven environment. As one of the largest and well-respected health and social care recruiters in the UK, we know this. This is why our multi-point candidate verification process is one of the most robust in the industry. Without fail, we’ll always meet each candidate face-to-face before placement. When you outsource your compliance to Sanctuary Health, you’ll know each candidate placed is safe, suitably experienced and qualified. Let us take the pressure offIs compliance a bottleneck, with other departments competing for attention? Is it a headache getting a new team of healthcare workers on the ground?Whatever your onboarding pain points, we can make sure compliance isn’t one of them. We can handle your entire compliance process, even if we haven’t sourced the candidates.How does it work?Once we are provided with information about a candidate, our multi-checking process starts. By no-means an exhaustive list, most checks involve:Full employment historyPersonal references of employment and performance history Training and qualifications Professional registrationIdentity and original identity documents in person (face to face)Immigration status/Right to Work in the UKDisclosure and Barring Service and overseas police checks for new entrantsOccupational health screening for role/occupational health review for all clinical staffUp-to-date statutory and role relevant trainingOur approach ensures your compliance procedures adhere to the UK legislative requirements and NHS Employer Standards. As an on-framework supplier to the NHS, we strictly follow Crown Commercial Services (CCS), Collaborative Procurement Programme (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe (HTE) framework compliance terms.It means you can safely mobilise entire teams of healthcare professionals, without delay. Contact us today to find out how you could benefit from outsourcing your compliance services.

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Contract Healthcare Roles

Sanctuary Health is much more than a recruitment partner. We provide complete resourcing solutions to meet your exacting needs as a healthcare employer.Our community Our specialist healthcare resourcing teams have created trusted relationships with clusters of locum healthcare professionals. We have allied health, imaging, mental health, and health science professionals, doctors and nurses, ready to work across every pocket of the UK. This means, wherever in the world you are based, we can meet any and every resourcing demand you place on us, quickly and easily. With thousands of healthcare professionals registered with Sanctuary Health, we can manage larger scale projects, and swiftly relieve recruitment crises. Wide selection of candidatesWe recruit at all levels, from those new to their chosen profession, through to senior practitioners and those trained in specialist areas of expertise.Since we are on the approved frameworks, all our locum candidates can relax in their current role knowing we can supply into the future.On-framework recruitmentSanctuary adheres to the rules that cap and control agency spend, as set out by Monitor and the Trust Development Authority for all NHS trusts in England.We are proud to be appointed by the three main NHS frameworks (Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the Collaborative Procurement Partnership (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe. A trusted resourcing partner, this means we can supply the broadest possible range of healthcare professionals to NHS trusts across the UK.Read more about the frameworks we are on.Trusted, safe recruitment of locum healthcare professionalsWith our market-leading compliance and safeguarding process, you can be assured that all staff provided have been thoroughly vetted for your peace of mind.Let Sanctuary help with your resourcing requirements, register a vacancy today!

Safe Healthcare Recruitment

As a leading healthcare recruitment specialist in the UK, we place safe recruitment at the heart of everything we do. We believe, this is not just best practice, but our duty. A duty we take seriously as an on-framework agency and DBS umbrella organisation. Therefore, we operate one of the most rigorous compliance processes within the healthcare recruitment sector – so that you know that the professionals we place are of the highest calibre. Face-to-face vettingEvery candidate goes through a robust and thorough compliance checking process before they start their placement. This includes a face-to-face meeting, where original documents are seen and verified. Here, they are also interviewed to make sure they are suitable for the role.As a DBS registered body, Sanctuary physically checks and processes criminal record and safeguarding documentation to ensure each candidate is safe to work. We also have screening processes in place to check professional registration and employment history. Our compliance checks include:Proof of identity (provided in person)Full employment history Verification of professional registration Checking of professional referee details for the last 5 yearsVerification of training and qualificationsDisclosure and Barring Service and relevant overseas police checks Proof of eligibility to work in the UK Check on up—to-date statutory and role specific trainingOccupational health screening (for relevant services)This approach ensures our healthcare recruitment services are always compliant and that we adhere to the safe recruitment guidelines for those working with vulnerable people, as set out through local and national government, as well as the Crown Commercial Services, The Collaborative Procurement Partnership and HealthTrust Europe frameworks.Find out why hundreds of employers trust Sanctuary, contact us today.

Healthcare RPO

Depending on your recruitment needs, you may require more support than just acquiring and onboarding suitably qualified healthcare professionals. As a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Partner (RPO), Sanctuary Health becomes an extension of your HR team. We can manage every aspect of your recruitment and onboarding; from attracting to welcoming the candidate to your organisation. At the heart of each RPO partnership is a recruitment business strategy built on a bespoke methodology. We focus on placing the most able healthcare professional - in the right role - every time. The benefits of an RPO solution:Our solution can be delivered on or off-site. Your Project Manager ensures your resourcing needs are always met by carefully co-ordinating each activity. This includes:Analysis of resourcing needs with a comprehensive workforce plan Marketing campaign, including employer brand consultation Talent engagement and strategic sourcing 360° candidate communications Compliance and risk management Pre-employment screening, including interviews Vendor and supply chain management We’ll review your recruitment pain points and identify a cost-effective solution. Ultimately, this gives you a more robust workforce plan. To find out more about our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service, contact us.

Healthcare Frameworks

We are proud to say that Sanctuary Health is one of the largest on-framework health and social care resourcing agencies in the UK. Robust, safe recruitment that places fully compliant, qualified professionals is in our DNA. We are at our happiest working in an environment that is highly regulated. When the rules were brought into place to cap and control agency spend back in 2015, we were ready to supply high calibre candidates through the approved frameworks. Now we are on the three main NHS frameworks; Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the Collaborative Procurement Partnership (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe. A trusted resourcing partner, this means we can supply the broadest possible range of healthcare professionals to NHS trusts across the UK. NHS staffing solutions Working in partnership with our clients, we are driving further integrity into the recruitment process. We have evolved our systems to provide reassurance to our NHS Trust clients that every single contract is cap compliant. Our cloud-based timesheet and expense processing, payroll, billing, contract management and reporting system is one of the most streamlined in the market.To start your recruitment journey with Sanctuary, contact us today!

Clinical Governance

As a client, you can be assured the professionals we place deliver a high standard of care. To ensure this, we take a structured and considered approach to clinical governance. After all, it’s important that we have a true and in-depth understanding of the healthcare sector and how key nationwide developments impact the programmes we recruit into. Only then can we work with you on an informed and truly consultative basis. How do we do this?We directly employee highly experienced clinical governance leads. They work on-site within healthcare settings and have an in-depth knowledge of healthcare resourcing. They confidently inform our service review process to make sure the continuous improvements we make help you improve the quality of your service and safeguard high standards of care. The remit of clinical governance is wide, but where we offer greatest assistance is with recommending resourcing solutions that help address staffing pressures. We are at our best operating in a highly regulated environment. Read more about our approach to safe recruitment.

Permanent Healthcare Recruitment

Whether you are looking for permanent allied health, mental health, imaging, health science services professionals or qualified nurses or doctors, we can help.Tailored to your exact needsOur 360-degree permanent recruitment process will find you the most able candidates; not simply the most available. Our permanent Sanctuary Health consultants take the time to understand the intricacies of your organisation. We work with you. We look at your existing team structure, challenges and priorities. Our reachOur reach spans the entire healthcare profession, from newly qualified members of staff, to the most experienced professionals available. That means your vacancy is guaranteed to reach the people you are looking to attract.Mobile full teamsWe have developed trusted long-term relationships with hiring managers throughout England, Scotland and Wales and are often called upon to mobilise teams. We fully account manage the entire process, with both employer and potential employee, giving you back the gift of time.Attractive fee structureWith traditional recruitment methods, reaching the right people, of the required volume can be very expensive. But with our permanent healthcare recruitment service, it’s completely free, with a fee only payable when you recruit one of the practitioners we supply.That provides you with a completely risk-free opportunity to employ the right people for those hard-to-fill permanent healthcare roles in your organisation.Our recruitment experts are waiting to assist with your requirements, register a vacancy today!

Private Health Staffing

We are an innovative resourcing partner to hundreds of NHS trusts, private clients and local authorities throughout the UK.Private healthcare providers choose to partner with Sanctuary Health for our:Well-established community of high-calibre healthcare candidatesRobust compliance and onboarding processesQuick placement, even for traditionally hard-to-fill rolesCost-effective permanent and locum recruitment solutionsMost importantly, we’ll always find you the most able and experienced candidate so that you can feel confident in the care they deliver. Discover your recruitment optionsLocum recruitment We have built up an enviable pool of thousands of locum healthcare professionals across almost every specialism. A pool you can tap straight into through a dedicated consultant. This is why we are on many tier 1 preferred supplier lists, including Priory Group , Elysium Healthcare and BMI Group (amongst others). Shift work Many of our experienced locum healthcare professionals like to pick up shift work and have informed us of their availability. This makes it even easier for you to maintain patient safety at peak times or when an employee calls in sick. Permanent recruitment Our permanent division could save you thousands of pounds in recruitment costs. Our 360-degree permanent healthcare recruitment offering – either through UK or overseas recruitment campaigns – delivers every time. Our consultants, specialising in private healthcare recruitment, understand the type of highly experienced professionals you require, and know exactly how to attract them. Every day we are driving greater efficiencies into the recruitment process for our private healthcare clients. To find out how we could help you, contact us today!

NHS Staffing

Sanctuary Health is proud to be a preferred supplier on the main frameworks to supply allied health, mental health, health science services, imaging and nursing professionals to NHS trusts across the UK. Ensuring cap complianceWhilst it is exceptionally difficult to secure a place, it’s not simply being able to supply through these frameworks that sets us apart from our peers. It is how we have adapted our internal processes and procedures to assist our NHS Trust clients to ensure every single contract is cap compliant. Far from a box-ticking exercise, we are driving further integrity into our back-office systems and procedures for the benefit of our clients. Our cloud-based solution means we have one of the most streamlined, timesheet and expense processing, payroll, billing, contract management and reporting system in the market.Greater control over your agency spendThis real-time window to our business, enables greater collaborative working with both our clients and candidates, boosting efficiency and visibility. Crucially, as an NHS client, you are afforded instant up-to-the-minute access to management information. At the click of a button, you can check there are no breaches of the NHS Improvement approved caps, making it much easier to forecast and control your spend. As a hiring manager, you can see how far Sanctuary Health has reduced your margins to afford greater efficiencies. Responding to chronic staff shortagesWe break down our talent pools on a step-by-step basis to respond to chronic staff shortages. For our NHS and local authority clients, this has been hugely beneficial as we are able to mobilise teams anywhere in the country in a short space of time.To discover how you can drive greater efficiency into your recruitment process, contact us today.

A fresh approach to healthcare recruitment

Enhance visibility

Keep control

Hire well