All candidates are required to attend a face-to-face meeting with an First Health Care Agency Consultant, this enables us to meet you and verify your experience, training and Right to work status.

First Health Care Agency has moved away from branch locations, preferring to have our medical consultants based throughout the UK. Our medical consultants are car or office based and therefore have the complete flexibility to meet with you in your local area or workplace or our office. All of our Roving Consultants are equipped with document scanners and other equipment to enable them to fully assist you to register.

We recognize that registration with the First Health Care Agency can be a time-consuming process: as a responsible healthcare recruiter we are bound by the statutory recruitment and care standards regulations as well as the regulations and requirements of our clients. To help you to achieve full compliance we have partnered with a number of organisations and have dedicated teams of clearance and research staff to assist you. Ultimately remember it will all be worthwhile as once you are cleared to work with us we have a number of different agency brands that you will automatically become eligible to work for.

The NHS are very clear on these requirements; and as an agency worker you are effectively viewed as a new starter within the NHS meaning that you have to undertake all the training and occupational health requirements.

First Health Care Agency has partnered with Train The Trainer, who provides all the necessary courses that you will require to become compliant. Many of the courses are available online so therefore can be undertaken at your leisure. First Health Care Agency has partnered with national training providers who deliver manual handling and CPR training. You will receive certificates for your portfolio for any course that you attend that is affiliated with us.

It is a legal requirement that all candidates who work in positions that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act undergo an enhanced disclosure for each and every agency or employer that they work for. The check must be in place prior to you undertaking any assignment.

When the Criminal Records Bureau issue a disclosure certificate, they issue one copy to the registered body (First Health Care Agency) and the other copy is the applicant's copy which is for your own records. Registered bodies are prevented from disclosing any details to a third party concerning your CRB. We therefore request a copy of your applicant’s copy as many of our clients will insist on sight of this prior to accepting you for an assignment.

It is a NHS requirement and indeed a requirement of the majority of our clients that a new CRB is instigated every 12 months.

We recognize that many of the compliance documents that you provide us with will lapse at different times in the year: we have therefore introduced our candidate portal Staffshift to assist you with this. Once you are registered with First Health Care Agency you can access Staffshift and look at your compliance status, ask questions, and update availability - therefore being more in control of your records and compliance. Our systems are very intelligent and in addition to the Staffshift portal, email reminders will be sent to you on a regular basis providing you with time to comply with any requirements.

A24 Group cannot guarantee you work, our work is dependent on the demand for temporary staffing from our clients throughout England and Wales. We do however book in excess of 40,000 of temporary hours every week and our consultants are extremely pro-active, therefore affording you the best work opportunities in the market.

We operate with GRI and work as First Health Care Agency. First Health Care Agency is predominately a supplier in the high-end 'spot' market of temporary staffing and works to achieve the highest rates possible for healthcare professionals.

You can ring and speak to our team on 01274 921900