Healthcare Staffing Services for Permanent Clinical Hiring
Alliance recruits permanent nurses, doctors, allied health and clinical support staff for hospitals, clinics and care providers, with licensing, credential verification and visa processing handled end to end. We do not supply locum, travel or per-diem cover. 16+ years, 36+ countries.
We screen candidates against your clinical requirements, verify qualifications and experience, and coordinate licensing and visa documentation. This helps your HR team reduce time-to-hire, avoid unsuitable clinical applications and fill permanent vacancies with candidates ready for your onboarding process.
16+ Years Of Experience
550,000+ Placements Delivered
36+ Countries Served
350+ Expert Teams
50+ Top Level Positions
Permanent Clinical Hiring or Locum Cover? Start Here
“Healthcare staffing” describes two different industries and the phrase is used for both.
Locum, travel and per-diem staffing means an agency holds the clinician’s contract and supplies their shifts to you, billed hourly or daily with a margin. It fills rota gaps, covers leave and absorbs seasonal peaks. Alliance does not provide it.
Permanent clinical recruitment, which is what we do, means we source, verify and place a clinician who joins your establishment on a permanent contract, on your licence sponsorship, counting toward your substantive headcount.
The difference matters more in healthcare than in most sectors, because the licensing sits with the individual and the sponsorship sits with the employer. With agency cover the credentialing trail runs through the agency. With a permanent hire it runs through you, which is what a regulator or an accreditation body will expect to see.
If you need next week’s night shift covered, we are the wrong supplier. If you need a substantive post filled, that is this page.
For the main practice, see our healthcare recruitment agencies page.
Clinical Recruitment Measured on Licence, Not on CV
Most healthcare staffing services present a clinician’s experience and leave the licensing to you. The reason international clinical hires fail is almost never the clinician. It is the eight to twenty weeks between offer and licence, where a credential fails primary source verification or an exam slot is unavailable. We are measured on start dates, not shortlists.
How Long Does Permanent Clinical Recruitment Take?
Domestic clinical placements: 3 to 6 weeks from brief to offer.
International placements: 12 to 28 weeks, because licensing, primary source verification, examinations and visa processing sit between offer and start.
The licensing phase is the variable one. Gulf licensing through the relevant health authority typically runs 8 to 16 weeks once verification begins. UK NMC or GMC registration and North American pathways commonly run longer.
How Much Does Healthcare Recruitment Cost?
A percentage of first-year salary for individual clinical roles, or a fixed per-candidate fee for volume nursing mandates.
Licensing, verification, examination, and visa costs sit with the employer or the candidate depending on destination and are quoted separately.
What We Offer Healthcare Employers
Credential verification handled as a tracked process
Primary source verification of qualifications, registration and experience, with a visible status per candidate. The single most common cause of a failed international clinical hire is a credential that does not verify, discovered after the offer.
Licensing pathway scoped before sourcing
Which authority, which examination, which documents, and how long each realistically takes for that nationality and that destination. Sourcing before checking the licensing route is how mandates lose a quarter.
Specialty verified, not assumed
An ICU nurse, a theatre nurse and a ward nurse are not interchangeable, and neither are an emergency physician and a general practitioner. We screen on the specialty and the case mix, not the job title.
English language testing scoped up front
where the destination requires IELTS or OET, because band requirements differ by regulator and by role.
Permanent placement onto your establishment
No locum, no travel nursing, no per-diem, no agency shifts.
A drop-out buffer planned into volume nursing mandates
Expect a proportion to fail verification, examination or medicals. Any agency promising fifty out of fifty has not run an international nursing cohort.
Our Clinical Recruitment Process
Requirement and Licensing Feasibility (Weeks 1 to 2)
Roles, specialties, quantities, salary and destination. We confirm the licensing route and nationality eligibility before sourcing, because several destinations restrict which qualifications they will recognise and that changes.
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 and language. You receive verified profiles with credential status attached.
Client Selection (Weeks 5 to 8)
Panel interviews, or in-person selection drives in the source country where volume justifies it. Selection decisions stay yours.
Verification, Licensing and Visa (Weeks 8 to 24)
Primary source verification, examinations where required, health authority licensing, attestation and visa processing, reported weekly. This is where international clinical mandates fail and it is the phase most agencies stop communicating in.
Joining and Registration (Weeks 20 to 28)
Travel, arrival, local registration and induction coordination. The clinician becomes your employee on joining and all employment administration transfers to you.
Post-Joining Follow-Up (After Joining)
We check in after placement to confirm successful onboarding, registration completion and a smooth transition into your clinical team.
Know Your Realistic Hiring Timeline
Hiring clinicians internationally and unsure of the realistic licensing timeline? Send us the specialty and destination and we will give you an honest start date before you commit.
Clinical Specialties and Markets
Nursing
ICU, theatre, emergency, ward, paediatric, midwifery, oncology and community. Our largest clinical practice. See nursing recruitment agencies.
Doctors and physicians
Specialists, generalists, registrars and consultants across acute and primary care.
Allied health
Physiotherapy, radiography, laboratory, pharmacy, occupational therapy and dietetics.
Dental
Dentists, specialists, hygienists and dental technicians.
Clinical support and administration Clinical support and administration Clinical support and administration
Healthcare assistants, medical records, patient coordination and healthcare administration.
Healthcare leadership
Medical directors, nursing directors, hospital and clinical operations leadership.
Healthcare IT
Clinical systems, EHR implementation and health informatics roles, which sit closer to technology recruitment than clinical.
Destination markets
The Gulf, the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and India.
Source markets
India (with Kerala as the largest nursing supply state), the Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
International medical migration
is our strongest healthcare practice. See international medical recruitment Canada.
Who We Serve
Hospitals opening a new unit or facility
needing a defined clinical establishment in place before commissioning, on a date that will not move.
Employers whose substantive vacancies are being covered by agency spend
where the locum bill has quietly exceeded what permanent recruitment would have cost.
Healthcare providers recruiting internationally for the first time
who have not yet discovered how long licensing actually takes and need an honest number.
ealthcare employers under nationalisation requirements
where the expatriate categories that can be licensed are a compliance question, not a commercial one.
Care providers and clinics with scarce-specialty gaps
ICU, theatre, emergency and specialist medical, where the domestic pool simply does not contain enough people.
Employers who lost a cohort at the verification stage
usually with an agent who sourced first and checked credentials afterwards.
The Alliance Advantage in Clinical Recruitment
Permanent clinical recruitment only. No locum, no travel nursing, no per diem, no agency shift supply.
Credential verification tracked with named ownership, not left to the candidate.
Licensing route confirmed before sourcing begins, per destination and per nationality.
Specialty and case mix verified, because ICU, theatre, and ward nursing are different jobs.
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 international clinical mandates actually fail.
A realistic drop-out buffer planned into volume cohorts.
International medical migration as a genuine practice, not a claim. Canada, New Zealand, the Gulf, the UK and Ireland, sourced from Kerala, the wider Indian nursing market and the Philippines.
Why Choose Alliance for Healthcare Recruitment?
International clinical hiring fails in one predictable place, and it is never sourcing. Finding forty ICU nurses in Kerala takes a few weeks. Getting forty ICU nurses through primary source verification, a licensing examination, health authority registration and a visa takes four to seven months, and a proportion will not complete it.
Agencies that quote you the sourcing timeline are quoting the easy part. We quote the whole thing, which costs us mandates against firms promising twelve weeks, and is the only number that matters if you are commissioning a unit.
We are the wrong choice in three situations, and all three are common.
If you need shift cover, locum or travel staffing, we do not provide it — and in healthcare that will rule us out frequently.
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, a recruitment agency will not fix it and we would rather say so.
For global clinical mandates, see our global healthcare agency practice, which handles multi-country clinical programmes.
Our Client Reviews
We had several permanent nursing vacancies that were becoming difficult to fill locally. Alliance understood the licensing requirements for our destination and provided candidates with the relevant clinical experience and documentation. Their team kept us informed throughout the process, which made workforce planning much easier.
Our biggest concern was hiring internationally without getting stuck later in the credential or licensing process. Alliance was clear about the feasibility before sourcing and kept the verification and documentation moving. We were able to appoint qualified clinicians with much less pressure on our internal HR team.
We needed to recruit experienced allied health professionals for permanent positions within a defined timeline. Alliance structured the requirements clearly, screened candidates against our clinical criteria and coordinated the overseas process through to joining. The shortlist was strong and communication remained consistent throughout.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The phrase covers two different industries. Locum, travel, and per-diem staffing supplies shift cover through an agency that holds the clinician’s contract. Permanent clinical recruitment places a clinician who joins your establishment permanently. Alliance provides the second only.
No. Alliance places permanent clinical staff only. We do not supply locum cover, travel nursing, per-diem shifts, or agency rota fill.
Because licensing sits with the individual and sponsorship sits with the employer. With agency cover the credentialing trail runs through the agency. With a permanent hire, it runs through you, which is what regulators and accreditation bodies expect to see.
Twelve to twenty-eight weeks. Sourcing and selection take 2 to 8 weeks; verification, examinations, licensing, and visa take 8 to 24 weeks depending on destination and nationality.
A percentage of first-year salary for individual clinical roles, or a fixed per-candidate fee for volume nursing mandates. Licensing, verification, examination and visa costs are quoted separately.
Nursing across ICU, theatre, emergency, ward, paediatric and midwifery; doctors and physicians; allied health including physiotherapy, radiography, laboratory and pharmacy; dental; clinical support; and healthcare leadership.
The Gulf, the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and India.
India, with Kerala as the largest nursing supply state, plus the Philippines, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Verification is tracked as a managed process with named ownership, and the licensing route is scoped before sourcing begins so timelines are realistic rather than optimistic.
Some will. We plan a buffer into volume cohorts and re-source failed candidates within the original engagement.
Yes, though those sit closer to technology recruitment than clinical and are scoped differently.
Send the specialty, quantity, destination, and salary band. We confirm the licensing route and realistic start date before sourcing begins.
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