Gabriela arrived in the UK on the 3rd June 2003 as part of a group of several nurses. She was met at the airport by a taxi driver whom then took her to a hotel where she stayed for a week’s induction.
Although a Senior nurse in Romania, she had to start in the UK as a Senior Care assistant, this was an invaluable experience for her as a person, but more so a healthcare professional, she felt frustrating at times. She then passed her IELTS academic and registered with the NMC – in those days the Romania was not in the EU and the language test was mandatory.
At the beginning it was very hard to be away from her family and friends, but motivation and determination to build a better life was certainly the main incentive that drove her to reach success.
Settling and living in a country where you can develop and grow, based on your own abilities, hard work, and not “who you know” enables you to see that there is a “light at the end of the tunnel”. Progressing her career gradually, to Deputy manager and Nursing home manager is something that any overseas nurse can do.
MMA is delighted to have Gabriela now working as the Project lead for them, this gives her a great satisfaction in assisting other overseas nurses to succeed in the UK
Geanina arrived in the UK in January 2014 from Romania, after having a interview with a well known Care group in the UK arranged by MMA recruitment. Being set up with accommodation and travel arrangements by MMA, her trip was a pleasure.
She started working as a RGN and for her the most difficult part of coming to the UK was that she was alone, without her family, but in a short time she started feeling better, having great support from the managers and staff at her work, and the MMA team was in touch with her on regular basis, to make sure she is settling in fine and that she is comfortable in the new environment she is in.
For her to come to the UK was already one of the biggest achievements in life. She started to work in the care home, which was a whole new experience for her and a challenge. Expect for learning to deal with difficult situations she learned how to be patient with her residents and encourage and support their families in grievous moments. She also achieved a certificate of Successful completion of challenging behaviour awareness training and verification of death certificate.
Geanina is only planning on achieving more, and will soon let her family join her
After having a formal interview with the Ramsay private hospital group managers in Portugal on a interview drive, Rui was offered a position within one of their well known centres. He came to the UK in July 2014 from Portugal with assistance from MMA getting him safely from the airport to his accommodation making sure he was settling in. Leaving his family behind, he experienced some homesickness and felt alone. But he quickly manage to make friends at work, and the family he stays with gave him a great deal of support, making him feel less homesickness and comfortable in his environment.
He started working as a ward nurse, and although his experience was a majority of a Nurse Sergeant in the Portuguese Navy, he quickly adapt to the hospital environment. There was some challenges for him regards his working in a hospital again, especially to learn all the procedures that is being used in the UK, but being willing to learn helped him allot, and the employers supports him well.
Rui is not seeing himself returning very quickly to Portugal, and is planning on brining is family over very soon to join
He came to Northern Ireland form the Philippines in 2000 as one of the first overseas nurses recruited to work in care homes. Moving across the world and adapting to a Care Home environment having worked in a surgical ward was a daunting prospect. However the support received from Four Seasons Health Care and the friendliness of my new colleagues quickly helped him to settle in. Within a year he had been promoted to unit manager and after a number of promotions he became a home manager in 2005. Maui is very proud of the achievement as he was the first Phillipino Home Manager in Northern Ireland.
Since joining Four Seasons he has always had support and been encouraged to progress and develop. He loves the home manager role as he gets to build and grow a team and ensure our residents are looked after. The home managers role is challenging but it is a great feeling at the end of a hard day to be able to go home knowing my team are providing the very best quality care to our residents.
Melinda arrived in the UK as a staff nurse in 1997. When she arrived in the UK, she experienced many challenges.
Nobody met her at the airport; she had to make her own way to the hospital; on arrival at the hospital she found that the HR manager was off sick for a week and was asked to report back a week later.
When she finally started work she had almost no training and support from the employer or co-workers. She experienced all the phases of homesickness and isolation and this inspired her to start MMA Recruitment with the only mission to provide better support for overseas nurses.
Since then she has successfully grown the business from an idea into a thriving team of twenty people.
Ana’s biggest dream was to come to the UK, although she had no idea if this will happen, MMA made it possible for her! She came to the UK on the 19th May 2014 , starting of with a well know group, working as a health care assistant.
The most difficult thing for her to go trough is to start a unknown life. She adapt very quickly and become use to the city life. It does feel sometime very much unreal as her dream came true. She got use to her colleagues and now a days it feels like home for her.
Roxy and her family arrived in the UK in December 2012, where she started working as a staff nurse. The most difficult thing for her was to understand the rules and regulations as this was much more different from Romania than she expected.
Her greatest achievement in the UK is the fact that she manage to settle in with her family, happy and content.
From her professional point of view her biggest achievement in the UK is that she become a Sister in one year.
Ana’s biggest dream was to come to the UK, although she had no idea if this will happen, MMA made it possible for her! She came to the UK on the 19th May 2014 , starting of with a well know group, working as a health care assistant.
The most difficult thing for her to go trough is to start a unknown life. She adapt very quickly and become use to the city life. It does feel sometime very much unreal as her dream came true. She got use to her colleagues and now a days it feels like home for her.