Scarborough and Whitby Saint Cecilia's care homes boosted by overseas nurses
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Thanks to an innovative partnership with its local health trust, Saint Cecilia’s has recruited the nurses from Ghana.
After competing their training in North Yorkshire, the three will be ready to join the company’s nursing homes in Scarborough and Whitby.
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Hide AdHarriet Adzoa Anku, Yvonne Ifeyemi Sedo and Evans Sarbeng arrived in Scarborough last week after a recruitment process which has taken the best part of a year to complete.
Director Aaron Padgham said: “This is a very exciting and significant moment for Saint Cecilia’s as we welcome these staff from Ghana to Scarborough.
“It is the result of a long process which began with an application for a licence to bring in overseas staff to provide care and ends with three nurses stepping off a plane in Manchester ready to work with us caring for people in Scarborough and Whitby.
“In between there has been a ton of bureaucracy and paperwork and we are indebted to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for helping us to smooth the process of bringing in the staff we desperately need.”
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Hide AdAt a time of extreme staff shortages across the country, Saint Cecilia’s needed to move quickly once it had the necessary licences in place to enable it to recruit from overseas.
Saint Cecilia’s is bringing in a further seven care and nursing staff from overseas in the coming weeks.