CareJoy – Here to Support Your Career

As The Specialist Agency, and as Healthcare Professionals ourselves, CareJoy Healthcare appreciate how important your professional development is.

Along with your compliance, we are here to support you throughout your continued professional development and have recently invested even further into our Support & Development team for you with the appointment of Marian Willingale as part of our Clinical Advisory team. 

“Maz” joins us as with a wealth of experience, alongside her Band 8 Nursing role, Maz works closely with Unions, is an avid member of the REC, and able to use her own clinical skills and judgements to ensure that you receive the best possible support for your Role.

To find out more about how we can support you with your CPD speak to your consultant or contact compliance(at)carejoy.co.uk.

‘Celebrating National ODPs Day’

This poem is by Jessica Downes, An ODP redeployed to ITU during the pandemic.

I will never forget you and the experience e shared.

In a time of uncertainty which we were not prepared

Unable to see loved ones and missing company

We became a new team, just you and me. 

Talking to you and always telling you about my day, 

What I did you shared it seemed to help me that way 

Helping loved ones pass messages and send you their love,

Strength and their prayers from here and above.

We fought it together, one day at a time.

Cheering you on to help you cross the finish line.

Celebrating the good days and acknowledging the positivity

Whilst remaining honest with you and your family.

As the days slipped away you fell into your sleep,

The memories of what you helped me be I will always keep,

A kinder, better person who wanted to support you through,

The last few moment of life, so precious and true.

The quiet descended and calm was felt around,

For a single second there couldn’t be heard a single found

Then the pure emotion of what you meant to family,

I include myself in that group, for that is what you became to me.

Jessica Downes

Operating Department Practitioner, AfPP Member

Celebrating International Nursing Day 

A Poem by Anonymous

What does it take to be a nurse?

A license on a wall?

Perhaps technically yes,

But if you think that is all

You would surely be mistake 

Because without any doubt

There is so much more than that to what nursing is about

Yes, the knowledge they’ve acquired

Is a key to what they do 

And they never stop learning

Or keeping up with what is new

But it’s in all the other aspects 

Of their professional routine

That the true meaning of nurse

Can most readily be seen

Showing genuine compassion

Listening to a patients fear

Finding time though it seems there none

To wipe away a childs tears

When facing tragedy and grief 

The strength and skill it takes to make

Firm and sound decisions

While your hearts about to break

Nurses are tireless, patient

Respectful and devoted

And even though their efforts

May not constantly be noted

They didn’t choose this life path

For glory or acclaim

And the good they do each day 

Is far more meaningful than fame.

Thank you all – from all of here at CareJoy.

The end of an Era

It is with great regret, CareJoy Healthcare announces the departure of one of our founders, Kindred Garces.

Darren Stubbs, CareJoy’s Managing Director comments: ‘Together with Joy and Grego Kindred has been the driving force in building CareJoy into the agency it is today.

‘Since joining the team, I have been hugely impressed by the way Kindred has built up the business, her focus on quality and the support she has provided to Clients and Candidates.

‘We all wish her the best of luck in her new ventures.

We are on the move!

The last 12 months have seen CareJoy Healthcare, the Specialists’ Agency go from strength to strength.

As an NHS LPP / CPP approved agency, we continue to offer great cost-effective service for our clients in London, the South, the North East and North West to name but a few.

We also work with some of the UK’s most prestigious private care providers such as Nuffield Healthcare, Ramsey Healthcare and Spire Healthcare.

We are working with more and more clients and now we have outgrown our original offices!

Just before lock-down, Darren, Kindred, Tayler and the rest of the CareJoy team moved into Mermaid House, right on the river Thames. 

We are only a stones’ throw from Blackfriars station and a 6-minute walk from St Pauls or Mansion House stations.

We’d love to see you, so if you’re ever in the area once it’s safe to travel again, do pop in for a cup of tea!

KEEPING YOU INFORMED ON THE CORONAVIRUS UPDATES

To our valued workers,

With the current uncertainly surrounding the rapid spread of the COVID-19, we would like to take the time to reassure our workers and customers that CareJoy Healthcare are doing all we can in order to prevent any unnecessary risks while you are working with us. 

You will have all received an information leaflet from our Occupational Health provider, including your confidential declaration. We will continue to provide you with follow up information as and when provided. 

CareJoy Healthcare are monitoring updates very closely from the Government, our Occupational Health team, the World Health Organisations along with our Recruitment memberships and ACAS and working to the advice recommended. Where required, we are implementing processes to adapt to the challenges that coronavirus is presenting as the situation evolves. 

We do not operate within any areas currently classified as “high-risk”.  However, we have dedicated time and attention to complete a health and safety review and risk assessments of our operations to ensure business continuity.

Should it be necessary, we have a strategy in place to ensure our internal staff will have the ability to work remotely if required, and it will be business as usual with our operations adapting as and when the situation changes. 

If you have been in contact with or have been infected yourself, please notify us so we can in turn advise the client with which you have worked. 

For more information please head to:

https://www.hbcompliance.co.uk/news/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

https://www.acas.org.uk/coronavirus

https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response

If you would like any other advice, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Best Regards 

CareJoy Healthcare

Introducing Darren Stubs

Last year, CareJoy Healthcare became part of the Dedicated Healthcare family. 

We are delighted to announce today that Darren Stubbs has joined CareJoy’s founder, Kindred and the rest of the team as our new Managing Director.

CareJoy was founded by Healthcare Professionals for Healthcare Professionals like themselves and Darren, a former NHS and Private Healthcare Practitioner continues this trend. 

Darren joins us following a distinguished career, building specialist healthcare businesses at Urgent Staffing, Day Webster and Healthcare Locums. 

“I am delighted to be joining the CareJoy team. This is such a crucial time for the NHS, along with our private sector Clients. As an agency focused on supporting key professions such as; Scrub, Anaesthetics and Recovery practitioners, that are so much in need, I aim to continue CareJoy’s ethos of concentrating on quality and customer service which is essential at this time to both our candidates and our clients.

As a committed CPP Framework agency, we are dedicated to supporting our clients with cost effective, sustainable quality solutions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

For more information on how the CareJoy Team can help with your departments specialist recruitment needs or to join our team, call us today on 020 3773 4144 or email info(at)carejoy.co.uk .