About Us / Veteran Founded
Veterans Healthcare Staffing UK is veteran founded.
Our roots in the UK Armed Forces have helped shape the principles we bring to healthcare staffing: service, integrity, responsibility, teamwork, reliability and professionalism.
But being veteran founded does not mean being veteran only.
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Right Person. Right Skills. Right Setting. Right Match.
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We recruit healthcare professionals from all backgrounds who share our commitment to safe, compassionate, respectful and professional support.
Military service can develop qualities that remain valuable long after someone leaves the Armed Forces.
These can include:
Our founder’s experience in the UK Armed Forces helped shape an understanding that people depend on one another, responsibilities matter and standards must be maintained even when circumstances are challenging.
Those principles continue to influence how we approach healthcare staffing.
Healthcare and military service are very different environments, but both can involve a strong sense of responsibility towards other people.
For some veterans, working in healthcare can provide an opportunity to continue serving people in a different way.
Veterans may bring transferable skills and behaviours developed through military service, but military experience alone does not make someone suitable for a healthcare role.
Every applicant must still meet the recruitment, qualifications, training, competency, professional registration where required, and compliance requirements appropriate to the role.
There are no shortcuts to safer recruitment or workforce assurance.
Our connection to the Armed Forces community remains an important part of who we are.
Veterans Healthcare Ltd is a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, reflecting our commitment to recognising and supporting members of the Armed Forces community.
This can include:
Where appropriate, we want to help people recognise how skills and experience gained through service may transfer into healthcare employment.
Our commitment to service also extends to people who have served within the NHS and wider healthcare system.
Experienced healthcare professionals leaving substantive NHS roles may still have valuable knowledge, skills and experience to contribute through flexible, temporary, contract, specialist or permanent opportunities.
We recognise the value of that experience while applying the same recruitment, compliance, competency and professional standards expected of everyone joining our workforce.
Our veteran identity influences our values. It does not replace fair, evidence-based recruitment.
Whether an applicant comes from the Armed Forces, NHS, independent healthcare sector or another appropriate background, recruitment decisions are based on their suitability for the role.
Depending on the role and jurisdiction, our recruitment and compliance processes may include appropriate verification of:
Requirements vary according to the profession, assignment, setting, client and jurisdiction.
The standard applies to everyone.
Our veteran foundations sit alongside the wider values that guide Veterans Healthcare Staffing UK:
PRIDE is what we believe. The 6Cs are how we behave.
The MUM Test is not separate from our values. It is how we live them.
Together, these principles influence how we recruit, assess, match and support healthcare professionals.
Our history may have started with a connection to military service, but our purpose is much wider.
We support healthcare organisations and professionals serving:
You do not need to have served in the Armed Forces or NHS to work with us, request staff from us or become part of our wider healthcare community.
What matters is sharing the standards and values on which our service is built.
The MUM Test
Our veteran foundations are about service to people. The M.U.M. Test helps translate that principle into healthcare staffing.
When considering someone for our workforce, we ask:
For professionals working with children, the same principle becomes:
It keeps the person receiving care, treatment or support at the centre of the recruitment and matching decision.
Because behind every staffing request is a real person depending on the quality of the professional provided.
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Your loved one first.
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Understanding always.
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Protect privacy and respect.
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Our past helps shape our values.
Our standards determine how we work.
Our purpose is to help healthcare organisations access appropriately matched professionals while creating opportunities for people who want to make a positive difference through healthcare.
Serving People. Supporting Healthcare. Strengthening Workforces.
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