What Scottish Nursing Guild does

Scottish Nursing Guild is a healthcare staffing agency founded in 1995 and headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The company recruits nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants and places them into short-notice shifts at NHS hospitals, private healthcare providers, community care organizations, and care homes across three jurisdictions: Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. The business is positioned as a direct-to-consumer staffing platform for healthcare professionals, combining recruitment, compliance management, and shift fulfillment into a unified service offering.

The underlying technology stack centers on a digital staffing platform comprising four integrated components: the Quick Nurse mobile application for self-serve shift booking and diary management, an online Recruitment Portal (join-theguild.com) handling eligibility checks, candidate applications, and video interviewing, a dedicated Compliance Portal for regulatory documentation management, and the main marketing/brand website (nursingguild.com). Together these tools digitize the candidate lifecycle from initial eligibility through ongoing shift booking and compliance renewal.

Scottish Nursing Guild generates revenue through transactional markups on healthcare worker wages — charging healthcare facilities a placement fee above the pay rate passed through to the nurse. Distribution to healthcare professionals is primarily self-serve via the website, mobile app, and social media channels, while healthcare-facility clients engage through direct sales and phone-based relationship management. The company operates as a subsidiary of Acacium Group, a diversified staffing and healthcare services conglomerate, which provides corporate governance and back-office scale under the Acacium umbrella.

Name

Scottish Nursing Guild

Legal name

Scottish Nursing Guild

Website

https://scottish-nursing-guild.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Scottish Nursing Guild is a UK-based healthcare staffing agency placing nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants into short-notice shifts across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, operating as a subsidiary of Acacium Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing
• Nursing agency
• Temporary nursing
• Midwifery staffing
• Healthcare assistant staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Edinburgh

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Staffing Placement Services: The company operates as a staffing agency, placing nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants into temporary shifts at healthcare facilities. Revenue is generated through markups on healthcare worker wages, charging healthcare providers for staffing solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Scottish Nursing Guild is a healthcare staffing agency that places nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants (HCAs) into short-notice temporary shifts across healthcare and community settings in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. The agency recruits healthcare professionals through a three-step online process (eligibility check, application, video interview) and deploys them via the Quick Nurse mobile app for shift booking. Healthcare facilities pay for staffing solutions, with the company earning revenue through markups on healthcare worker wages.

Product overview

Scottish Nursing Guild operates as a nursing and midwifery staffing agency offering a unified platform of services for healthcare professionals. The core offering is the staffing agency itself, supplemented by the Quick Nurse mobile app for shift booking, a Recruitment Portal for candidate onboarding, and a Compliance Portal for document management. The company connects nurses, midwives, and HCAs with short-notice shifts across healthcare and community settings in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scottish Nursing Guild Healthcare Staffing Service A nursing, midwifery, and healthcare assistant (HCA) staffing agency providing short-notice shift placements across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. The service connects qualified healthcare professionals with NHS hospitals, private healthcare providers, community care organizations, and care homes requiring temporary coverage.
• Quick Nurse Mobile App A mobile application that enables nurses and healthcare professionals to browse, book, and manage shifts directly from their phone, providing a streamlined shift booking experience with complete diary flexibility and no minimum shift commitment.
• Online Recruitment Portal A web-based portal (join-theguild.com) for prospective nursing, midwifery, and HCA candidates to apply, complete a video interview, upload required compliance documents, and onboard with the organization. The portal supports a three-step recruitment process: eligibility check, application with skills/qualifications, and video interview registration.
• Compliance Portal A dedicated portal for managing regulatory compliance documentation and credentialing requirements for healthcare professionals, including NMC and NMBI registration tracking and ongoing regulatory requirements.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Acacium Groupparent_companyOthersAcacium Group is identified as the parent company of Scottish Nursing Guild. The copyright notice on the website states 'Copyright Acacium Group 2025'. References to Acacium Group's Gender Pay Gap report and Modern Slavery Act statement indicate a corporate parent relationship with shared governance frameworks.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mayday Healthcare: UK healthcare staffing agency placing nurses and HCAs into NHS and private hospital shifts. Comparable to SNG in clinical staffing focus, multi-jurisdiction UK coverage, and shift-based placement model.
• A24 Group: UK and Ireland nursing agency placing nurses and healthcare assistants in hospital and community settings. Direct peer to SNG in candidate pool, short-notice staffing model, and UK/Ireland geographic focus.
• Pulse Nursing: UK healthcare staffing agency placing nurses, midwives, and HCAs across NHS and private facilities. Directly comparable to SNG in clinical candidate pool, short-notice shift model, and multi-jurisdiction UK/Ireland coverage.
• ID Medical: One of the largest UK healthcare staffing agencies covering nursing, allied health, and doctor placements. Comparable to SNG in staffing model, NHS client base, and digital recruitment platform approach.
• Medacs Healthcare: UK-based healthcare staffing agency offering nursing, doctor, and allied health placements. Closely comparable to SNG in clinical staffing focus, NHS client base, and temporary/locum shift model.
• Sanctuary Personnel: UK healthcare and social care staffing agency providing nurses and care workers to NHS and private providers. Comparable to SNG in clinical candidate pool and shift-based placement model.
• CPL Healthcare: Irish-headquartered healthcare staffing agency placing nurses and allied health professionals across Ireland and the UK. Directly comparable to SNG in cross-jurisdiction UK/Ireland nursing placement model.

Broad incumbents

• NHS Professionals: Government-owned NHS flexible staffing bank providing nurses and HCAs to NHS Trusts across England (and expanding to Scotland). Comparable as broad incumbent healthcare staffing provider to the same NHS facility customer base that SNG serves.
• AMN Healthcare: US-listed, largest US healthcare staffing provider spanning nursing, allied, and locum physician placements. Broad incumbent analog to SNG in business model (markup on clinical wages, app-based matching) and clinical staffing focus, though US-focused.

Others

• Acacium Group: Parent company of Scottish Nursing Guild and a broader diversified healthcare staffing and services group in the UK. Included as related party for context rather than direct comparison; broader portfolio includes locum doctors, social care, and life sciences staffing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/nursingguild
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@the_guild
• Facebooken-gb.facebook.com/scottishnursingguild
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scottish-nursing-guild
• Instagraminstagram.com/nursing_guild

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Investors

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