Medical Staffing Services for Permanent Clinical Roles
Alliance places permanent nurses, doctors, allied health, medical assistants, and healthcare administration staff with hospitals, clinics, and care providers, with credential verification and licensing managed through to the start date. We do not supply locum, travel, or agency shift cover. 16+ years, 36+ countries.
We screen candidates against your exact clinical and operational requirements, verify qualifications and experience, and coordinate the documentation needed for a compliant permanent hire. This reduces recruitment workload while helping you fill critical healthcare roles with greater certainty.
16+ Years Of Experience
550,000+ Placements Delivered
36+ Countries Served
350+ Expert Teams
50+ Top Level Positions
Medical Staffing or Medical Recruitment? The Distinction That Costs Money
In healthcare, “staffing” and “recruitment” describe two different industries, and using the words interchangeably is how providers end up with the wrong supplier.
Medical staffing, as the term is used in the US and UK, means locum, travel, per-diem, and agency shift supply. The agency holds the clinician’s contract and bills you for their hours. Alliance does not provide it.
Medical recruitment, which is what we do, means sourcing, verifying and placing a clinician who joins your establishment substantively, on your sponsorship, on your payroll.
The difference is not semantic. It is where the credentialing trail sits. With agency cover, primary source verification runs through the agency’s file. With a permanent hire, it runs through yours, which is what an accreditation body or regulator will ask to see.
It is also where the money goes. Agency rates carry a recurring margin for as long as the post is covered. Permanent recruitment is a single fee.
For the recruitment practice in full, see our medical recruitment agencies page.
Medical Staffing Agencies That Verify Before They Present
Most medical staffing agencies send a CV and leave credentialing to you. International clinical hires do not fail on clinical ability. They fail eight to twenty weeks later, when a qualification will not verify or a licensing exam slot is unavailable. We verify before shortlisting and report weekly through the licensing phase, because the start date is the only deliverable that matters.
Permanent vs Locum: What Does Each Actually Cost?
Permanent recruitment is a one-time fee — a percentage of first-year salary, or a fixed per-candidate fee for volume cohorts. After that, you pay the salary.
Locum and agency cover is a recurring hourly margin for as long as the post is uncovered. Over a substantive post held for a year or more, the agency spend routinely exceeds the permanent fee several times over, and most providers have never run the comparison.
How Long Does Permanent Clinical Recruitment Take?
Domestic placements: 3 to 6 weeks.
International placements: 12 to 28 weeks, because verification, examinations, licensing and visa processing sit between offer and start
What We Offer Healthcare Providers
Credential verification before shortlist, not after offer
Primary source verification of qualification, registration and experience, with a visible status per candidate. The most common cause of a failed international clinical hire is a credential that does not verify, found after the employer has committed.
Licensing route confirmed before sourcing
Which authority, which examination, which documents, and how long each realistically takes for that nationality into that destination.
Specialty and case mix verified
ICU, theatre, emergency and ward nursing are different jobs. So are an emergency physician and a generalist. We screen on what the clinician has actually done, not the title on the CV.
Medical assistants and clinical support
screened on scope of practice, which varies by state and country and is routinely overstated.
Permanent placement onto your establishment
No locum, no travel nursing, no per-diem, no agency shift fill, no interim.
A drop-out buffer planned into volume cohorts
Some candidates fail verification, examination or medicals. Any supplier promising fifty from fifty has not run an international clinical cohort.
Our Clinical Recruitment Process
Requirement and Licensing Feasibility (Weeks 1 to 2)
Specialties, quantities, salary band and destination. We confirm the licensing route and nationality eligibility before sourcing, because several destinations restrict which qualifications they recognise, and that changes without notice.
Sourcing and Clinical Screening (Weeks 2 to 6)
Sourced from India, the Philippines and other clinical supply markets. Screened on specialty, case mix, registration status, scope of practice and language.
Client Selection (Weeks 5 to 8)
Panel interviews, or in-person selection drives in the source country where volume justifies it.
Verification, Licensing and Visa (Weeks 8 to 24)
Primary source verification, examinations where required, health authority registration, attestation and visa processing, reported weekly. This is where international clinical mandates fail, and it is the phase most suppliers stop communicating in.
Joining and Registration (Weeks 20 to 28)
Travel, arrival, local registration and induction. The clinician becomes your employee on joining and all employment administration transfers to you.
Post-Joining Follow-Up (Weeks 28 to 32)
We confirm successful joining, support the handover to your HR and clinical teams, and follow up during the early employment period to address any onboarding or registration issues.
Need Permanent Clinical Staff?
Covering substantive posts with agency spend? Send us the establishment gap and we will model what permanent recruitment would cost against twelve months of cover.
Clinical Roles and Markets We Cover
Nursing
ICU, theatre, emergency, ward, paediatric, midwifery and community.
Doctors and physicians
Specialists, generalists, registrars and consultants.
Medical assistants and clinical support
Screened on scope of practice, which differs by jurisdiction.
Allied health
Physiotherapy, radiography, laboratory, pharmacy and occupational therapy.
Healthcare administration
Practice management, medical records, patient coordination and revenue cycle.
Healthcare IT and informatics
Clinical systems and EHR roles, scoped closer to technology recruitment.
Healthcare leadership
Medical and nursing directors, hospital and clinical operations.
Destination markets
Canada, the Gulf, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Europe including France and Belgium, and India.
Source markets
India, with Kerala as the largest nursing supply state, plus the Philippines, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
International medical migration is our strongest clinical practice. See international medical recruitment Canada, the highest-converting page on this site.
Who We Serve
Providers covering substantive posts with agency spend
where the locum bill has quietly exceeded what permanent recruitment would have cost, and nobody has run the comparison.
Hospitals commissioning a new unit
needing a defined clinical establishment in place before opening, on a date that will not move.
Employers recruiting internationally for the first time
who need an honest licensing timeline rather than an optimistic one.
Clinics and practices hiring medical assistants and support staff
where scope of practice, not availability, is the screening constraint.
Gulf healthcare providers under nationalisation rules
where which expatriate categories can be licensed is a compliance question.
Providers who lost a cohort at verification
usually with a supplier who sourced first and checked credentials afterwards.
The Alliance Advantage
Permanent clinical recruitment only. No locum, no travel nursing, no per diem, no interim, no agency shift supply. Stated first because the word “staffing” implies all five.
Verification before shortlist, tracked with named ownership rather than left to the candidate.
Licensing route confirmed before sourcing begins, per destination and per nationality.
Specialty, case mix, and scope of practice verified, not inferred from a title.
We quote the start date, not the offer date. Twelve to twenty-eight weeks internationally, with the licensing phase counted honestly.
Weekly reporting through verification and licensing, the phase where clinical mandates actually fail.
A realistic drop-out buffer on volume cohorts.
International medical migration as a genuine practice — Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Gulf, the UK and Ireland, sourced from Kerala, the wider Indian market and the Philippines.
Why Choose Alliance for Medical Staffing?
The uncomfortable truth about this market is that “staffing” is where the money is and permanent placement is where the value is. An agency covering a substantive nursing post at an hourly rate earns for as long as the post stays unfilled. It has no incentive to fill it.
We only earn once, on a start date. That aligns us with the outcome and it means we will tell you when a post is unfillable at the banding you have set, rather than offering to cover it indefinitely.
The practical difference is the verification sequence. Most suppliers source first and credential later. We verify before shortlist, which is slower, produces fewer names, and is the reason cohorts complete.
We are the wrong choice in three situations, and all three are common in healthcare.
If you need shift cover, locum or travel staffing, we do not provide it.
If you need someone next month, no compliant international clinical route delivers that.
And if your substantive posts are unfilled because of pay banding rather than supply, recruitment will not fix it.
For the medical assistant and clinical support desk, see medical assistant staffing agencies. For senior clinical appointments, see medical recruitment consultant.
Our Client Reviews
We had several permanent nursing positions open at the same time and needed a recruitment partner who understood the clinical requirements, not just the job titles. Alliance gave us a relevant shortlist and handled the credential and licensing coordination through the process. It saved our HR team a considerable amount of time.
We were recruiting specialist doctors for a growing clinic network and wanted to avoid spending weeks reviewing unsuitable profiles. Alliance understood the experience and registration requirements before starting the search and kept the process moving through verification. The candidates we interviewed were much closer to what we needed.
Our challenge was not simply finding healthcare professionals; it was getting the right people through the documentation and licensing stages. Alliance managed the process closely and kept us updated as each candidate progressed. That gave us much better visibility on expected joining dates and helped us plan our staffing levels.
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Alex George
General Manager | RPO & Enterprise Recruitment
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Head of Recruitment | Recruitment & Staffing
Frequently Asked Questions
The phrase covers two industries. Locum, travel and per-diem staffing supplies shift cover through an agency that holds the clinician’s contract. Permanent medical recruitment places a clinician who joins your establishment substantively. Alliance provides the second only.
No. Alliance places permanent clinical staff only. We do not supply locum cover, travel nursing, per-diem shifts, interim cover or agency rota fill.
Permanent recruitment is a one-time fee. Locum cover is a recurring hourly margin for as long as the post is uncovered. Over a post held for a year or more, agency spend routinely exceeds the permanent fee several times over.
Because the credentialing trail follows the contract. With agency cover, primary source verification sits in the agency’s file. With a permanent hire it sits in yours, which is what accreditation bodies and regulators expect.
Three to six weeks domestically. Twelve to twenty-eight weeks internationally, because verification, examinations, licensing and visa processing sit between offer and start.
A percentage of first-year salary for individual clinical roles, or a fixed per-candidate fee for volume cohorts. Licensing, verification, examination and visa costs are quoted separately.
Nursing across all specialties, doctors and physicians, medical assistants and clinical support, allied health, healthcare administration, healthcare IT, and clinical leadership.
Yes. Primary source verification of qualification, registration and experience is completed before shortlist, with a visible status per candidate.
Canada, the Gulf, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Europe including France and Belgium, and India.
India, with Kerala as the largest nursing supply state, plus the Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Yes, screened on scope of practice, which differs by state and country and is routinely overstated on CVs.
Send the specialty, quantity, destination and salary band. We confirm the licensing route and a realistic start date before sourcing begins.
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