Roadmap To Living And Working In UK As A Registered Nurse Or Midwife

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Go to iregUKNMC..

Create a profile.

Register for cbt.

Write IELTS UKVI version, academic module.

Pass with 7,7,7,6.5 in writing, then pay for NMC registration, and the documents that you need to complete the first stage of your proficiency will be sent to you.

Download and upload necessary documents, send NMCN copy to them, pay #53:500 for NMCN verification, write a letter and send in with your request that you need certificate if good standing with your verification.

Get your training school to send your transcript.

Take your health declaration form to a Doctor who is not your employer, husband, wife or friend to fill... ( You'll send this back by courier). Your school will send by courier. Courier fee is included in NMCN 53,500.

You will get a Police Character Certificate.

Then, while waiting for NMCM to send your documents, do an interview with a UK employer.

When NMC is satisfied with your application and documents, they will send you a letter called Decision letter... This is what you'll take to the UK to write your final qualifying examination called OSCE. Most employers will train you for this, it is to know of your clinical ability.

Note: Some employers allow you to come with your family straight, others, when you have passed OSCE. Whichever way, UK is pro family.

Once you're in, great employer will train you for OSCE, pay for your OSCE ( close to £1000), sponsor your trip to your exam centre, some pay for your registration after exams, while some don't...

Then, you get your PIN and......there you're, UK/ international RN.
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GETTING A JOB AS A NURSE IN THE UK FROM NIGERIA.

Nurses are in high demand either in the UK or US because of their central role in healthcare.
And Yes, you can get job as a Nurse and relocate to work in the UK with your family, from Nigeria.

This pathway applies for whether you have a RN or BSc qualification.

There are 6 main steps:
1. The first step is to do the IELTS Academic Exams(N75k) or OET (N140k). This can be done in Nigeria - Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Lagos and Abuja. For IELTS, you need a minimum of 7 overall.

2. The second step is to register with the Nursing Medical Council, UK. The registration costs £140 and you can pay with your card online.

3. The third step is to apply for a Verification and Letter of good standing to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). Cost is N17,500 and can be done through REMITA.

4. After your verification, the fourth step is to do the NMC CBT exam Part 1 (£83). This can be done in Nigeria at Person Vue CBT Centres. Pearson Vue CBT Centres are in Enugu, Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja. Almost in all the states.

5. If you pass this exam, the fifth step is to get a job as a pre-registration nurse (Band 3-4) in the UK. You can get this job from Nigeria. Once you sign the contract of the job you like, the trust will send you a Certificate of Sponsorship (Cos) for your Tier 2 work Visa. If you have a family, you can move with them to the UK.

6. While doing this job as a pre-registration nurse after relocating, you will then do the 2nd Part of the NMC Exams (OSCE) - £794.Most employers in the UK pay for the registration of this OSCE exam. If you pass this, you will get registered with the NMC Council and work as a registered licensed Nurse (Band 5) in the UK.

Other miscellaneous costs are costs for TB Certificate (N55k) and Police clearance (N2-10k,depending on location) that you need to sort our before leaving Nigeria.

Simple, right?
Get to work.

Kelvin Alaneme, 2020.
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Hello dear friends and colleagues,

I see it fit to just write this as it may be of help to someone.
It is a good thing that nurses in Nigeria and diaspora have a place like this to connect, share information and offer help to as many as possible.

I joined this group a couple of years back and can categorically say, that, the journey to my career progression somehow started from the information I could access on this platform.

Just a quick one, I saw a post here in 2016 about a company that was recruiting nurses for the UK and made a comment. Then one of them came into my inbox to offer an explanation and boom, here we are today.
I must, however, say that they did not make any effort for me. I was the one who sought information, paid for and wrote my exams. At some point I was almost starving because I wanted to save the money I needed. I even went as far as borrowing money to process certain things, and of course, I paid back.

So, I am sometimes not so comfortable when people share information and the next thing is a filled inbox with different questions and when you don’t respond on time or at all, you are accused of hoarding information or refusing to help.
For any serious-minded nurse who wants to relocate, in the last couple of days, following the call out by one of senior colleagues, Mummy Olufemi Iseyemi Folakemi Rn, information has been shared. Large, big and wide enough to guide us from the beginning to the end.

The onus is now on us to plan and action what we need to in other to achieve our dreams if relocation is what you want.
Note that nobody loves you more than you love yourself. Nobody can take you seriously if you don’t take yourself seriously. I believe this is partly one thing that has affected our profession negatively in terms of negotiation for remunerations with the government. Well, this is something to talk about on a different day.
Now that you have all the information you need, go ahead and act. If it is IELTS material you need, we have enough shared already. People are still sharing.

If you need to skip food a few times to save enough for exam, do it. If it means denying yourself of some comfort, please go ahead and do it. The future is what you are fighting for today and so you must understand that it is not easy. Pay the price to win the prize.

Finally, I just want to say that for those of us who are specialists in discouraging people just because we heard something negative about a particular employer or country, please stop it.
I heard a case where someone who does not even have an international passport was telling another that a particular country takes too much tax, and she should not go there. This colleague has never gone anywhere outside the shores of her home country yet knows everything that happens in another country.

I want to advise us that if you have been convinced that relocation is for you, then stop listening to negatives. There is google, search for every information you need. Don’t be intellectually lazy. Engage your android phone and get the right information please just some advice from a concerned colleague.
Thank you for reading.
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PS my inbox is full and I have received loads of friend request, some I have accepted and other I have not. please bear with me, I cannot respond to all as soon as you want, I do apologise. So, please search through the posts here and get the information you need. God bless us all.
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The number of Nigeria-trained nurses on the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) of the United Kingdom (UK) rose by 54.4 percent to 4,310 in March 2021, the highest in five years, compared with 2,792 in March 2017.

The rise in the number of Nigerian nurses migrating to the UK can be attributed to the cheap and easy entry migration requirements of the country facing shortage of nurses.

For those interested in travelling to UK and are trying to know the various steps, nurses lecture room just simplified the steps for you.
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NARROWLY ESCAPED:
When we talk about Academic IELTS Exams , we must also talk about resilience, persistence & determination. These are the basic ingredients required to swim through the turbulence of the exam.
He's a friend & colleague at the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba. He prefers anonymity for security reasons until he finally jakpa from that hospital.

He started writing IELTS since year 2018 without achieving the required score. He was never discouraged despite poor performance.

He wrote 2 ielts in 2018, one in 2019, again 2 in 2020. All was to no avail. Nothing good came out of those results. Infact, the results were woeful
He opted to write OET instead after five IELTS attempts, unfortunately, at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, OET suspended all exam booking in Nigeria.

He went back to write the 6th attempt in july 2021 but still not successful.
Determined not to give up until he pass the monster of an exam. He booked the 7th attempt last month November 2021.
The result is out. To God be the glory, this time around, he escaped narrowly.
Band seven all through the subtests.

He had already passed his CBT mental health
He's on his way to ELYSIUM HEALTHCARE UK
He will recover all the expenses he has made
Determination and persistence pay!

Oja s'ope las last
To you that wrote ielts only one time and you are complaining, please borrow a leaf from here.

Happy & great weekend folks
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