Level up your nursing career. In the UK National Health Service (NHS), Band 5 and Band 6 are pay grades for Nurses. You tend to enter the profession as a Band 5, while Band 6 is a more senior position that requires additional responsibilities and qualifications. Moving up from Band 5 to Band 6 can […]
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Make your wellbeing a priority this winter. It’s well known that the winter months bring added pressure for those working in healthcare. As a result, it can be very easy to put your wellbeing on the back burner. As Healthcare Professionals, you spend so much of your time looking after others and putting their health
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The NMC has recently released updated advice on how you can help to tackle racism within the nursing profession. The advice has been published to support Healthcare Professionals to become an ally and to help them feel comfortable calling out racism when they see it. Racism is unacceptable and it has no place in health
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Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness week here in the UK. As a healthcare agency, we have the pleasure of working with dozens of extraordinary healthcare professionals every day. From A&E and ITU Nurses, to ODPs and RMNs, the Bluestones Medical Marvels are second to none. However, from working in the industry and
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Bluestones Medical is extremely excited to announce that we have introduced Rapid Pay. This means that our Marvels can work and shift and be paid for it within 48 hours. Why have we done this?In a recent survey, we asked our Marvels to tell us what they think we could do to improve the service
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On Friday 8th April, Bluestones Medical held an Easter-themed charity day in aid of the Hospice of the Good Shepherd. We were extremely privileged to have been joined by a gentleman named Dennis Holman. Dennis’ wife, Jan, was in the Hospice last year and very sadly passed away. Since her passing, Dennis has been doing
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Another new benefit for our Marvels. We are absolutely delighted to announce that we are now offering private healthcare to our full-time Marvels. As a business, we are passionate about doing all we can to nurture the well-being of our healthcare professionals. Therefore, paying for them to have access to private healthcare was something of
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Bluestones Medical Complex Care is delighted to introduce Linda Williams to the team, who joins them as their new Care Delivery Manager. As the Care Delivery Manager, Linda’s extensive knowledge surrounding the health and social care sector will be utilised to help provide a best-in-class service to our service users, candidates, and clients alike. Linda
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Our top tips for Revalidation It’s something all Nurses and Healthcare Professionals must do every 3 years, but it can be confusing at times. You must produce 5 reflective statements and have 5 pieces of evidence to support them, and we understand that it can be overwhelming to know where to start! Did you know
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According to recent research, the importance of the relationships between young mental health patients and the nurses looking after them has been overlooked. A study of eight young people, eight mental health nursing staff and eight family members, conducted by psychologists from The University of Manchester and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust found that the
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