Bond Healthcare

What Bond Healthcare does

Bond Healthcare is a healthcare recruitment agency operating as a trading division of Bond Search & Selection Ltd, headquartered in Belfast with additional offices in Dublin, Manchester, and Edinburgh. Founded in 2002, the company recruits nurses, locum doctors, healthcare assistants, AHP/HSS professionals, social workers, and social care staff for placement with NHS Trusts (primarily across Northern Ireland) and private healthcare providers. Its primary customer relationships include named placements at Royal Victoria Hospital, Antrim Area Hospital, Causeway Hospital, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, and South West Acute Hospital, supported by approved NHS contractor status, GMC Designated body status, and RQIA registration — credentials that form a meaningful regulatory barrier to entry in the Northern Ireland public healthcare staffing market.

The company's core product surface comprises two lines: temporary healthcare staffing (the dominant revenue stream, generating placement fees and margin on hourly/daily contractor rates) and permanent healthcare recruitment. Its underlying technology is the Bond Healthcare mobile application, available on iOS and Android, which enables contractors to upload availability, book shifts, view upcoming and previous shifts, complete timesheets, and receive updates. The app is positioned as the firm's primary differentiator against traditional phone-and-email agency workflows, supported by free Access NI checks, training, revalidation/appraisal support, and weekly pay cycles as contractor-facing value adds.

Go-to-market is sales-led, with dedicated recruitment consultants managing placements across multiple specialties and geographies. Bond Healthcare markets to candidates primarily through its website job board, mobile app, and a healthcare worker referral scheme, and reaches healthcare-facility buyers through direct engagement with NHS Trust HR departments and ward managers. Pricing is usage-based and non-publicly disclosed, with rates described as 'excellent' and 'negotiable' per placement, with enhanced rates offered for locum doctors. The company is privately held with no disclosed external funding, M&A activity, or AI/ML capabilities, operating as a regional specialist in a fragmented UK and Ireland healthcare staffing market.

Name

Bond Healthcare

Legal name

Bond Healthcare Ltd

Website

https://bondhealthcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bond Healthcare is a Belfast-headquartered healthcare recruitment agency placing nurses, locum doctors, and care staff into NHS Trusts and private providers across Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the UK via a mobile-app-enabled consultant model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare recruitment
• Medical staffing
• Nurse placement
• Locum doctors
• Social care staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Belfast

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Temporary Healthcare Staffing: Placement of temporary agency nurses, doctors, AHP/HSS professionals, healthcare assistants, locum doctors, and social care workers with NHS and private healthcare clients. Revenue generated through placement fees and margin on hourly/daily rates paid to contractors.
2. Permanent Healthcare Recruitment: Placement of permanent nursing and healthcare staff for healthcare facilities

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bond Healthcare is a healthcare recruitment agency operating as a trading division of Bond Search & Selection Ltd, supplying temporary and permanent healthcare professionals — including nurses, doctors, support workers, administrators, community care workers, social workers, and healthcare managers — to NHS trusts, private hospitals, and social care providers across Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The agency supports candidates with a proprietary mobile app for shift management, timesheets, and 24/7 contact.

Product overview

Bond Healthcare is a healthcare recruitment agency operating as a trading division of Bond Search & Selection Ltd. The company offers a single integrated recruitment service, recruiting nurses, doctors, support workers, administrators, community care workers, social workers, and healthcare managers for NHS and private sector clients. Their primary digital product is the Bond Healthcare App, which enables temporary staff to manage their shifts, availability, and timesheets. Job placement categories include Agency Nurses, AHP/HSS, Healthcare Assistants, Locum Doctors, Permanent Nurses, and Social Work/Social Care roles across temporary, part-time, contract, and permanent job types.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temporary Healthcare Staffing Service
• Permanent Healthcare Recruitment Service
• Social Care Staffing Service
• Bond Healthcare Mobile App

Quantifiable outcome

• Hassle-free registration process
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NHScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerApproved NHS contractor supplying locum doctors and healthcare professionals to NHS hospitals across Northern Ireland. The partnership involves compliance with NHS staffing requirements and regulatory standards.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• MSI Group: MSI Group is a UK healthcare recruitment specialist placing doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into NHS and private hospitals — a direct peer in locum and permanent healthcare staffing.
• Pulse Healthcare: Pulse Healthcare specializes in placing nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts and private hospitals across the UK — a direct competitor to Bond in temporary healthcare staffing.
• Medacs Healthcare: Medacs is a UK-focused healthcare recruitment agency placing locum doctors, nurses, and allied health staff into NHS hospitals, directly comparable to Bond's locum doctor and agency nurse services.
• Pertemps Network Group: Pertemps operates a healthcare division placing nurses, doctors, and care staff into NHS and private clients across the UK, overlapping with Bond's regional agency staffing model.
• Reed Specialist Recruitment: Reed is one of the UK's largest recruitment agencies with a substantial healthcare division placing nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals into NHS trusts and private providers — directly comparable in service mix to Bond Healthcare.
• HCL Healthcare: HCL is a UK-based healthcare staffing and managed-services provider placing doctors, nurses, and AHP staff into NHS trusts — competing with Bond in both locum doctor and nursing categories.
• Sanctuary Personnel: Sanctuary Personnel is a UK healthcare and social care recruitment agency placing doctors, nurses, AHPs, and social workers, directly competing with Bond across both healthcare and social care staffing categories.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Walters: Robert Walters is a publicly listed UK/international recruitment firm with a healthcare practice placing senior medical, nursing, and AHP professionals, partially overlapping with Bond's permanent placement offering.
• Hays: Hays is a global, publicly listed recruitment group with a UK healthcare arm placing doctors, nurses, and AHP staff into NHS and private hospitals, overlapping with Bond's core locum and agency nurse offerings at greater scale.

Regional players

• CPL Healthcare: CPL Healthcare is an Ireland-based healthcare recruiter placing nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals across Ireland and the UK, overlapping with Bond's Dublin office and cross-border healthcare staffing activity.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bondhealthcare
• Facebookfacebook.com/BondHealthcare

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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