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Redefining Specialist Care Staffing

“Specialist care” often refers to services that must be provided to patients with complex or additional needs, such as mental or physical health.

Cucumber can provide specialist care staff with significant experience caring for individuals with these requirements. We work with personnel based across the UK, so we’re always ready to fulfil your needs, wherever you are.

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How Cucumber’s Specialist Care Staffing Consultants Can Help You

Our expert staff are always on hand to provide specialist care staffing solutions for your organisation – whether you’re a care home, hospice, or live-in care facility.

We ensure that the staff members we provide are fully qualified to fill your required positions and we always make sure that up-to-date safety checks are completed—permissions granted – including screenings and right-to-work checks.

By working to extremely high standards, we can assist our clients, making their staffing process easy and swift.

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Mental Health Staffing

Mental health specialists are constantly in demand within the care industry – particularly due to the ongoing increase in cases associated with mental health across the UK.

Cucumber has pre-screened mental health staff available at short notice.

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Complex Care Staffing

Staffing for Complex Care can often be challenging, as many patients requiring support of this kind present with multiple chronic, lifelong, degenerative or disabling conditions for which specialist knowledge and training are required.

Why Cucumber

Cucumber prides itself on our true understanding of the care sector and our team who have decades of experience in sourcing and staffing specialise care.

The experts at Cucumber have decades of experience with healthcare assistant staffing and up-to-date training in a range of specialist areas to suit your needs. Our competitive edge is supplying staff at lightening speed without compromising compliance or quality.

Specialist Care Staffing Frequently Asked Questions

Specialist care staffing requires medical providers to seek out professionals who can provide very particular services.

These professionals are often required to work in highly specific ways, such as delivering niche treatments or supporting patients with complex needs.

Cucumber is able to provide specialist healthcare staff of all kinds, whether for short-term cover or even long-term employment.

Since 2018, Cucumber has been delivering a five-star service to clients while supporting our agency staff with training and opportunities, which helps us retain them for the long term.

We have built a strong database of highly qualified specialists, and care providers regularly contact us from all over the country, so we have quickly positioned ourselves as a leading UK healthcare agency.

The team members at Cucumber are qualified service providers. We have delivered our specialist staffing methods for many years, providing high-quality medical professionals thoroughly trained to adhere to all quality compliance requirements.

Cucumber is passionate about developing its staff and offers a wide range of courses including:

  • MAYBO
  • Challenging Behaviour
  • Dementia
  • Dignity and Respect
  • End of Life
  • Epilepsy
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Health and Safety
  • Infection Control
  • MCA + DoLS
  • Mental Health
  • Moving and Handling
  • Person Centred Care
  • Safeguarding

Yes, Cucumber operates in Scotland for specialist care staffing solutions. They have a dedicated team that focuses on sourcing and placing healthcare professionals in various roles across the healthcare sector in Scotland.

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