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Global staffing group
recruiting large volumes of
new health workers for Saudi
Arabia
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
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Medacs Healthcare, one
of the world’s largest
healthcare staffing groups,
is working hard to meet
Saudi Arabia’s rising need
for international health
workers. Following a recent
series of highly successful
hiring events in London,
hundreds of consultant
doctors and nurses are set
to start new roles soon in
hospitals across Riyadh,
Jeddah, and Taif.
Medacs has many more hiring
events planned in multiple
locations across Europe and
Australia and says it
expects to hit its target of
1,000 new hires in 2025.
According to Colliers
International’s most recent
assessment, Saudi Arabia
needs an extra 175,000
medical professionals by
2030 to meet the healthcare
needs of an expanding
populace. This figure
includes 69,000 additional
doctors and 64,000
additional nurses, with
Saudisation policies
requiring that Saudi
nationals fill 60% of
vacancies.
Medacs has
an outstanding track record
with volume recruitment
projects. The group places
approximately 8,000
international healthcare
workers annually in global
locations including the
Middle East, the UK,
Ireland, and Australasia.
During the single
biggest global healthcare
crisis in history (the COVID
pandemic) Medacs also
successfully delivered the
largest ever
healthcare-managed service
for the UK Department of
Health and Care, recruiting
almost 9,000 laboratory
staff to process tests in a
record timescale.
Medacs’ Arabic-speaking,
Dubai, and London-based
teams have recruited new
staff into Gulf regions for
many years now, but the
group has only recently
begun to work on high-volume
hiring projects for the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
While the task ahead is an
ambitious one, Medacs’
experience in the region has
enabled them to make
exceptionally fast progress.
Rebecca Watson,
CEO of Medacs Global Group
said:
“We
are immensely proud to have
the global reach and local
expertise needed to support
the transformation of Saudi
Arabia’s healthcare sector.
In line with the 2030 Vision
the Kingdom is
revolutionizing the delivery
and quality of healthcare
services and will need
thousands of skilled workers
to realize their national
health goals”.
Medacs
has recently secured offers
of employment for consultant
doctors across various
specialties and built a
strong pipeline of over 500
qualified and pre-assessed
nurses, doctors, and allied
health professionals, ready
for interviews at upcoming
hiring events in London,
Dublin, Germany, France,
Sweden, and Sydney.
Rebecca added; “I’ll be at
Global Health, on my third
visit to Saudi Arabia this
year, meeting with more
healthcare providers in the
region to discuss how we can
support their rapidly rising
workforce needs”.
In
the last five years, Medacs
Healthcare’s operations in
the Middle East have
tripled. Much of this growth
has come from recruiting in
volume for major UAE
healthcare groups by hosting
‘in-person’ interviewing
events in the UK and other
key source regions.
The Medacs team will be at
the
Global Health Exhibition
at the Riyadh Convention
Centre from 21-23 October
2024. (ABHI UK Healthcare
Pavilion Hall 1, stand C).
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