Medical staffing services have become indispensable for healthcare centers and organizations.
It has become impossible to fill all medical staff positions by local advertisements. Medical talent has to be sourced from across the country and from international locations. A lot of research, investment, recruiting technology, outreach, and other endeavors are required to make medical staffing successful.
As healthcare companies worldwide prefer to outsource medical staffing or engage with a nursing agency to be able to maintain the required staff size for stable functioning, it is no wonder that the global medical staffing services market has grown to exceed USD 37 million.
Not all medical staffing agencies, however, offer the same services. Neither is the quality of support similar across agencies nor the value the employer gets. How to choose the right medical staffing agency?
We curated this blog to help your healthcare organization or clinic make the right decision about partnering with a nursing agency. If you are keen on improving your medical staffing quality and ensuring the right-fit hire per role, this guide will certainly generate the right insights.
Take The Right Steps To Correctly Define Medical Staffing Needs
You must have planned quarterly and yearly goals for your hospital, nursing home, geriatric care center, long-term care center, or private clinic. It will translate into talent needs.
What is the desired number of doctors and nurses you will need to meet your quarterly or yearly goals?
What are your plans to increase specialist doctors’ availability?
How much percentage of your staff will comprise locum tenens doctors and nurses?
Do you have the estimates about allied healthcare provider requirements? Physical Therapists, Radiology and Imaging Technicians, Biochemistry and Laboratory Professionals, and Nutritionists?
Based on the number of people you need per ward/team, document your staffing needs, including roles, qualifications, and expertise per role, functional experience per role, linguistic skills, and type of hiring models. Your list, curated in collaboration with a nursing agency or independently, can have many other parameters as well. List the primary requirements per role with clarity.
Research “Medical Staffing Agencies” With Nationwide/Global Outreach
A medical agency specialized in doctor or nurse staffing sources talent from locations where they have recruiters. Medical staffing agencies with talent outreach in a few cities cannot provide access to brilliant talent from across your country of operations. This means you are missing out on amazing talent that your competitors can easily possess.
Check Scope of Medical Staffing Solutions Provided By Agencies
How much medical staffing will your in-house team manage to meet all the goals you have set for patient care, wellness, hospital campaigns, or expansion initiatives?
You might need just the best-fit CVs for some staffing needs and virtual hiring support for others. You might want to explore more international talent sourcing for nurses and physical therapists or for medical consultant and doctor staffing. Choose a medical agency that provides a wide scope of solutions to meet all types of staffing needs that you may have.
Contracting with many medical staffing agencies leads to huge spending on medical talent sourcing and recruitment. On the other hand, having a staffing partner that can offer comprehensive support for all your staffing needs helps you save 30%-50% of overall recruitment costs.
Verify Reliability
Not every medical recruitment service provider can be trusted with confidential data about your hiring plans. Some agencies might have websites to gather information, which might be used for fraudulent practices.
To ensure that you are sourcing talent from the right medical recruitment agency, you should check the agency’s credentials. For example, if you are considering partnering with a medical staffing agency in India, you can find out if they have an ISO certification. You must also check the references they provide. A reputed agency will also have media mentions and recognitions.
Find Out About Flexibility, Support, and Guidance
Many healthcare providers make the mistake of not checking these key factors: flexibility to adjust to your needs and the quality of support provided during a recruitment project.
The cultural traits, salary expectations, and behavioral traits of medical professionals differ across geographies. Also, the level of support that candidates need varies. Some might need extensive guidance about work permits, tests, certifications to be acquired, the hiring process, the visa process, etc. If your medical staffing partner cannot fulfill these requirements, you might be losing the best talent across the roles for which you are hiring.
Assess Potential Partner’s Industry Knowledge
Medical professionals lose interest in recruiters who lack knowledge of their industry, their practice areas, and job roles. The ideal medical staffing partner has to be a recruitment agency with expert medical recruitment consultants.
Expert medical recruiters can ensure more meaningful interactions leading to fast closures. They can quickly identify the right candidates based on job roles and start a constructive dialogue with them. For instance, general recruiters might not understand that all oncology, cardiology, or nephrology nurse roles are not the same. Specialized medical recruiters do and can avoid misfit hiring scenarios.
Check Virtual Recruitment Expertise
Medical professionals lead a very hectic life. Unless your staffing partner has quality virtual recruitment technologies, your chances of getting access to the top talent in any job market are quite low.
Through virtual recruitment tools, medical recruiters can reach out to the target audience of doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, and diagnostic experts through mobile messaging systems. They can schedule preliminary interviews, pre-recorded interviews, and assessments in minutes. A lot of hiring tasks that took weeks can be managed in a few days with virtual recruiting systems.
When your medical staffing agency partner has virtual recruitment expertise, you can fill positions in half the time and costs compared to traditional methods.
Do Not Forget References and Recommendations
We suggest you never underestimate the power of references. Just getting emails from a client in the name of a reference is not enough. You need to check an agency thoroughly before entering into a long-term contract. Ask for more than 2-3 references. Check client reviews on reliable websites.
Final Thoughts
Finding medical staffing agencies or a nursing agency is not difficult. A simple Google search will get you 30-50 pages of results. It is not necessary that only the top-ranking ones are the best. Ensure that you are taking the right steps to identify the best staffing partner. The points we have shared are worth consideration to ensure the best results in medical staffing.
Alliance Recruitment Agency
Looking for the right global recruitment agency for your healthcare organization? Alliance Recruitment Agency has one of the best and most extensive networks of medical talent pools spanning 30+ countries. We have served more than 1,000+ hospitals, rehabilitation centers, private clinics, medical offices, and nursing homes.
The excellence you want in medical staffing will be a reality when you partner with us. Hire doctors, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals who have already proved their expertise and won the admiration of employers and patients. Contact us now to find out how we can help you get medical staffing solutions that are totally personalized to meet your talent needs.
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