3 Reasons to Stick with the Same Travel Healthcare Agency

As a travel nurse or allied health clinician, you have the choice between working with one agency or multiple agencies to find work. While some travel healthcare professionals prefer to work with multiple agencies to see more available jobs, it’s important to consider the simplicity offered by maintaining a professional relationship with a single agency. In this blog, we’re taking you through three main reasons to stick with the same travel healthcare agency as a travel nurse or allied health clinician—read on to learn more!

Recruiter Relationship

One great reason to stick with the same travel agency is because, over time, your recruiter has become knowledgeable of your needs, wants, and goals as a travel healthcare clinician. It can be challenging to find a great recruiter who works to be your advocate and finds you dream assignments, so once you do build that connection with a recruiter, it’s a good idea to stay with them. 

Working with just one recruiter allows you to build a better relationship with them, and ensures that they know what kind of assignments you do or don’t like, so that they recommend you with great assignments. It means less work on your part, because you have a single point of contact who can take care of everything for you. Having too many recruiters could get confusing, as they each cannot independently know what you have and haven’t applied for across agencies, leaving you responsible to manage applications yourself.

As a travel nurse or allied health clinician, you may find it convenient to give your recruiter more control over submitting applications on your behalf to different assignments. While you don’t want your recruiter to submit applications for you for everything, working with one recruiter means you can give them clear, strict guidelines on when you want them to send an application for you so you don’t miss out on your dream job.

Working with multiple recruiters also means that you run the risk of having multiple applications submitted on your behalf to assignments. Some facilities may hold it against you, and remove you from consideration if you have duplicate submissions.

If you find a travel job you love working at, sticking with your recruiter can make it easier to extend stays, and go back there for different assignments. You might find your dream assignment, make great friends, and love the practice environment. If so, you can more easily return there and extend stays with just one travel nurse agency.

BHS recruiters will help you work the assignments you love, and they can do that best when they work with you more and get to know you better.

Simplicity of Applications

Working with multiple travel agencies may mean extra paperwork, skills assessments, and training and onboarding—all things that create more work for you. When you work with just one company, you won’t need to fill out the same information twice. 

Working with just one travel agency also means that you do not run the risk of scheduling conflicts or taking on too much work. Your recruiter can help you estimate the amount of time you can work while maintaining your mental and physical health, eliminating the chance that you take on more work than you can realistically accomplish when starting out.

When you choose to work exclusively with BHS, you not only are able to avoid paperwork for multiple applications, but you also gain a dedicated team that will manage your paperwork for you, and help you complete everything.

Understanding Benefits

If you work with just one travel agency, you’ll develop a better understanding of the benefits you receive while working with the business as a travel clinician. This is critical for travel nurses and allied health clinicians, as it’s important that you look at your pay, plus your benefits, minus your expenses to truly understand how much money you’ll take home from different jobs.

Working with one agency and one recruiter gives you a clearer understanding of how much you need to spend on rent, travel, food, and other necessities. It can also help you understand the amount of time you need to spend on paperwork. Like most travel nurse agencies, BHS covers the costs of your rent and travel. But unlike other agencies, BHS also offers our travel clinicians health, dental and vision insurance, along with a competitive 401k savings plan.

Getting a new state license is a complex and often expensive process, but Barton’s licensing team does all the work for you. While licensing assistance is provided by many travel nurse companies, Barton is unique in maintaining a process that’s simple for you.

Find Your Next Travel Healthcare Clinician Job with BHS

If you’re ready to work for Barton, get in touch with a recruiter, or check out our job board to find your perfect recruiter and your perfect assignment.