About Us

Who We Are

Shawstone Group is a well-established supplier of nurses and complex care staff, providing highly trained, experienced, and fully-vetted professionals to nursing homes, hospices, hospitals, residential care companies, and specialist clinics, across the UK.

With offices in Greater Manchester and the North West, and over 45 years of experience in providing various nursing settings and businesses with tailored complex care staff, Shawstone Group specialises in pairing up the right skills and experience with the right healthcare business.

We also recruit complex nursing care staff across multiple positions, including nurses, management staff, turnaround managers, maternity and sickness cover, and more. Simply let us know what kind of staff you require for your nursing setting, and we’ll find the right individuals for the right job and setting.

Why choose Shawstone Group?

Specialist complex care staff

Do you require someone for an urgent shift? Or, someone to cover a last-minute gap, perhaps? We prioritise rapid deployment without compromising quality.

With Shawstone Group as your specialist complex care staff supplier, you’re never left short. Because we’re here to provide backup cover, guaranteed, no matter what time or day of the week it is, including public and bank holidays.

We don’t want staffing gaps to become your crisis, that’s for us to fulfil. And if, at any time, your staffing requirement changes from what you originally required, we move in swiftly with backup staff ready at your disposal. Minimal disruption. No stress. That’s the Shawstone advantage.

We work with real people only who are highly trained in real communication. We don’t train AI or bots, or use apps to arrange for staff. We guarantee a 100% human connection from start to finish, with no runarounds. All throughout, you’ll have a dedicated contact who knows your service or business inside out, and is always available to sort out any potential issues or manage staff as and when needed.

We don’t rely on faceless platforms. No repeating yourself or running in circles while using an app. just clear and transparent human communication.

Each one of our complex care professionals are clinically vetted, screened, communications-tested, and ready to work. Rather than simply tick UK complex care compliance boxes, we see to it that each clinician is vetted for:

Our human-centred approach keeps you informed, not guessing. You’ll never have to chase us for updates. We provide regular, proactive progress updates, clear timelines, and honest communication about staffing.

We’re built on relationships, not transactions. In each case, we take the time to understand your service, culture, and expectations — over time, we become an extension of your team and not just a supplier.

We offer simple and transparent booking with clear processes, fast confirmations, and no ambiguity whatsoever at any stage. With us, staffing is easy, predictable, and efficient.

Why Shawstone for nursing and complex care staff?

We provide Rapid responses to your queries.

At Shawstone Group, we pride ourselves in providing the right clinical staff, who have the right skills, and for the right setting. We never rush into providing ‘one size fits all’ staff for your specific needs. Instead, we take the time to sit down with you, go over your staffing requirements in detail, and then provide people that we personally know will deliver from the outset.

We strictly follow our approach to providing the right staff to your business – you don’t just get any nurse, you get the right nurse.
We go to painstaking lengths to match the individual’s skills, experience, ability to communicate well in a variety of situations, and personality to your environment. This dramatically helps us reduce the risk of placement failures and maximise care outcomes from day one.

Whenever you contact us with staffing requirements and share all the respective details with us, we move in fast, wasting no time to tap into our extensive network of complex care health professionals, to find the right person for the job. We operate with speed and precision. No delays. No excuses. No beating about the bush.

Why join

Why join Shawstone Group as a nurse or complex care staff?

At Shawstone Group, we help you find work that fits your life, not the other way around. You have the freedom to choose the shifts that suit you. We also offer flexible working with consistent opportunities, whether you want full-time hours or balance.

We ensure that your pay is fair, you are treated fairly in the position you are shortlisted for.

We value your time and commitment in several ways, including:

Ready to grow with us? Our dedicated and regular Training & Development includes:

we offer reliable hours you can count on and remain productive throughout. We’re all about helping you build consistent work patterns, not just one-off shifts — helping you plan your income and routine, so that you can pace yourself to meet each client’s requirements.

At Shawstone Group, you’re always heard. We provide direct access to a real person who understands your work and is always there to help you work out any potential issues with shift timings, or anything else that might come up. We listen, respond quickly, and act on your feedback, ensuring that there are no gaps in your income, skills development, and overall experience.

When it comes to furthering your career in complex care, we remove barriers, not create them. Working with us is fun, straightforward, insightful, and really simple:

At Shawstone, we see you as more than just ‘Shift Cover’. We match you up only with placements where we know you’ll feel comfortable, valued, and effective — not thrown into unsuitable environments or have to put up with employers who don’t value you.

We ensure that you get professional respect and courtesy with every shift. This is why we partner with providers who value staff. We always take the time to study and understand each provider, which means better environments and better experiences for you, as well as better care delivery for them.

While most agencies focus on filling gaps, we help connect you with the right people, and not just help you fill shifts. We focus on getting it right from day one — in terms of service, staff, and ultimately, the people receiving care.