Tomorrow is International Nurses’ Day, which is a huge event for BMI!

International Nurses’ Day, May 12th is a worldwide celebration on Florence Nightingale’s birthday to celebrate nursing.

As celebrations are under way across our hospitals, we wanted to take a moment to pay tribute to BMI Healthcare’s nurses and the hard work that they put in every day.

As stated by our Group Director of Nursing and Clinical Services, Frances, “Nursing is an incredible profession; I cannot imagine a more satisfying career outside of nursing”

For more information on Frances click here.

We are always on the look out for high quality nurses, with excellent clinical standards. To search our current vacancies across the UK click below.

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To all the nurses out there, we hope you have a wonderful International Nurses Day. Thank you, from The BMI Resourcing Team.

This week we will be introducing our new Head of Communications, Paul Ravenscroft.

Paul has had an exciting career to date, working as a reporter for many well-known publications such as The Evening Standard, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Express and even the Daily Star! He has also run the communications and stakeholder development functions of an ambitious NHS foundation trust and held senior roles in several other organisations.

Paul took the time to answer some questions for us on his role and how he found the recruitment process.

Please briefly explain your position with BMI and how it fits within your team and department.

My role is to develop and deliver a pro-active internal and external corporate communications strategy to raise positive awareness of the GHG corporate brand, its business developments, accomplishments and social responsibility campaigns amongst its employees and external stakeholders in target markets.  I also support the company’s senior management with communications to all stakeholders and manage communications for a broad range of corporate and hospital-based crises and issues. Ensuring the consistent communication of the Company’s Brand Values & Strategy and proactively leading the development and implementation of the Internal Communications strategy and annual plan are also among my responsibilities.

How are you finding working with BMI? What aspects of your role do you particularly enjoy and what is it about the company as a whole that makes you enjoy working here?

Fascinating! I always gravitate towards complex industries and that’s why I love working in health. Coming from a three-year stint as Head of Communications for an NHS foundation trust I am delighted to be back in a vibrant corporate environment. I’ve only been in post for a week but have been made to feel very welcome and supported by my close colleagues and I look forward to the challenge of building the brand and reputation of the company.

How did you find out about the vacancy?

I was approached by BMI’s Head of Resourcing Helene Williamson, who had seen my profile on professional networking site LinkedIn.

How did you find coming through the recruitment process with no recruitment agencies involved?

It was fine – a very smooth journey and thoroughly professional.

How did this experience differ from other times you have been job hunting and have dealt with recruitment agencies?

Cutting out the “middleman” reduces some of the uncertainties for the candidate and overall the recruitment process ran very smoothly.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

Only that I was delighted to be appointed and that the role is proving exactly the exciting opportunity that was promised.

Today, 25th April is Administrative Professionals Day. To celebrate, we are featuring a new recruit, Liane Venus in today’s blog.

Liane has recently joined us as a Strategy Administration Assistant after having worked as legal PA for multi-national consumer goods company.

She has taken the time to answer some questions for us about BMI, our direct recruitment methods and her experiences as an administrative professional.

How are you finding working with BMI? What aspects of your role do you particularly enjoy and what is it about the company as a whole that makes you enjoy working here?

I have to say, I am really enjoying life here at BMI.  Even though I have only been here for just over 4 weeks, I can see this is a great company to work for.  Everyone is very friendly and helpful.

The team I work with are great.  They work really hard.  The training I have received since joining has been excellent.  I have been able to pick up the role quickly, and easily.

How did you find out about the vacancy?

A friend of mine has worked with BMI for some time.  She found the vacancy on the intranet site and informed me of it.

How did you find coming through the recruitment process with no recruitment agencies involved?

It was a very easy, straight forward process.  Szilvia Toth in HR was handling my application and kept in touch via email and telephone.  Szilvia was very friendly and helpful.  The whole process only took about two weeks from start to finish, which was great.

How did this experience differ from other times you have been job hunting and have dealt with recruitment agencies?

Before joining BMI I was out of work for 7 months, so job hunting had become very stressful.  I dealt with numerous agencies, and applied for lots and lots of jobs.  The recruitment agencies only made contact initially, which soon cooled off.  Then it was down to me to chase them.  Other roles I applied for, I heard nothing back.

It was very refreshing to receive a telephone call within just days of applying for the role here at BMI, to update me on the progress of my application.

What have been some of the best experiences you’ve had working as an admin professional?

Administrative work is very dynamic and interesting.  I’ve worked for a few different companies within this profession, and love being able to meet new people and learn different ways of working.  I’ve been able to learn some great skills which will stay with me for life.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

Just thank you for the opportunity, and hopefully I’ll still be here in years to come!