About Knight & Jones
Healthcare recruitment across Chesterfield, Manchester, Nottingham Sheffield and the surrounding areas.
Nicki Knight
Director
Nicki has lived and breathed healthcare recruitment for her entire career.
With over 15 years’ experience of delivering for clients and candidates in a variety of healthcare roles, she brings a vast range of knowledge and expertise to Knight & Jones.
Together with her outstanding reputation and track record, Nicki is always on the pulse of the ever-changing staffing needs of the healthcare sector.
From putting in place plans to address shortages of skills, to keeping up to date with the very latest training and qualifications requirements, Nicki ensures Knight & Jones delivers a service fit for the modern healthcare workplace.
As an agency branch manager for many years, she successfully managed both temporary and permanent recruitment services, rolled out new services to new areas and was responsible for ensuring HR policy and procedures were adhered to at all times.
Now a director, she is using that combined experience and knowledge to deliver a healthcare recruitment service which exceeds expectations.
Nicki has been a Registered Manager and has gained her RMA (Registered Managers Award level 4) and Level 5.
Simone Jones
Director
Simone has more than 20 years’ experience working in healthcare and can truly claim to know the sector from the bottom up.
Starting out in frontline agency care roles, she worked her way up to senior managerial positions, including at care homes and homes for people with complex learning disabilities and mental health needs.
Her dedication, meticulous approach and strong work ethic led her to thrive in the healthcare sector. Later in her career she moved into recruitment, where she has been able to bring all of those qualities and experience to the role.
Simone brings a level of understanding of both the needs of clients and candidates which can only come through direct experience of both frontline and senior managerial positions.
As well as providing temporary and permanent recruitment services, her broad experience also includes pre-screening and training staff, overseeing safeguarding strategies, ensuring compliance and managing council audit processes.
It is that knowledge, passion and dedication to the sector that helps Knight & Jones deliver a truly exceptional service. Simone’s passion is getting to the heart of what good healthcare recruitment really looks like.
Simone has been a Registered Manager.
Matt Jones
Payroll & Compliance Officer
Matt has a keen eye for detail, excellent computer skills and knowledge, along with a friendly, thorough approach to his work, making Matt an excellent fit to the Knight & Jones team and his role.
Due to Matts previous experience in customer service and team working positions, he ensures queries and problems are resolved quickly and effectively.
Matt is dedicated, hard-working and reliable, he works above and beyond to ensure all tasks are completed.
Katie McEwan
Recruitment Consultant
Katie has 3 years’ experience as a Medical Receptionist in a Health Care centre, as well as another 4 years in Customer Services. Katie gained a triple distinction in her H&Sc Level 3 qualification which is a fantastic achievement.
Katie is outgoing and bubbly, and really connects with clients and candidates alike, building connections and creating excellent working relationships. Katie is reliable and ‘gets the job done’.
Katie enjoys meeting new people and getting out there to see her clients and how she can support to fix their recruitment issues to make people’s lives easier.
Jeanette Tighe
Recruitment Consultant
Jeanette has worked in the healthcare sector for nearly 8 years starting in Childcare, and moving through to Support Worker, Home Care and Care Home Administration.
Outside Healthcare, Jeanette’s career has mainly been focussed in Account Management and Customer Services, and she has a great sense of service delivery as well as meeting and managing expectations of those around her.
Jeanette has strong communication skills and is able to liaise with a variety of people in an effective manner, this makes recruitment a great career choice for Jeanette to continue to develop and excel in.
Nicola Jones
Recruitment Consultant
At Knight & Jones we offer:
- 24/7 on call service for all your emergency staffing needs on one number (local branch)
- Local knowledge from small dedicated team
- Thorough recruitment & induction process
- Annual DBS & training updates – utilising a training provider whose courses align with the UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)
- Quality service from an experienced healthcare team – 2 of which have been registered managers.
- Staff profiles for every worker
- Management Information available instantly for compliance reports or bookings (historical & future for analysis or just current booking confirmations/shift lists)
- Speedy response for any issues, complaints, incidents
- Excellent staff retention ensures continuity for you
- As we service local authorities and organisations that engage with RPO’s our recruitment processes and compliance are audited regularly – extra peace of mind for yourselves
Compliance Regulations
- We ensure all of our candidates provide a CV back to education with all gaps explained
- We explore where a candidate has left a role working with Children and/or Vulnerable Adults and determine the reason for leaving that post
- We host competency based interviews
- We look to gain a minimum of 2 work references, one of which must be care, including the most recent employer, covering a minimum of 3 years
- We ensure we gain a character reference, of which cannot be a relative, and can cover a minimum of 5 years
- Where a candidate doesn’t hold and enhanced DBS on the update service, we apply for a new DBS, which we renew yearly
- We carry out RTW checks following .gov guidance – we work in partnership with a IDVT service provider
- Candidates complete a Health Questionnaire for night shift working
- A duties commitment is completed to cover all aspects of health & social care working and any issues are discussed prior to starting (i.e. personal care restrictions etc)