Temporary medical adviser services are a way of ensuring that your agency is able to continue working seamlessly and without interruption, preventing delays and ensuring your services aren’t compromised by unforeseen circumstances.
Whether you require cover for just a few days or several weeks, temporary medical advisor cover offers reliable medical advice you can trust without any long-term contractual obligations. Here’s what you need to know about temporary medical adviser cover for fostering and adoption agencies.
Why Might Temporary Cover Be Needed?
At Orr Medical, we know that fostering and adoption agencies and local authorities can occasionally face periods without medical adviser support due to a variety of reasons outside of their control.
Our temporary medical adviser services are designed to fill this gap, allowing us to step in and ensure that your agency’s operations continue without interruption.
Here are just some of the reasons you might be considering temporary medical advisor cover as a fostering or adoption agency.
Annual Leave
Temporary medical advisor cover helps you cover periods of annual leave, enabling all your staff to take their annual holiday entitlement as and when they wish, without you needing to worry about who will handle medical reports and assessments in their absence.
Sickness and Absence
It’s estimated that in 2023-2024, around 33.7 million working days were lost in the UK. Whether it's due to ill health or injury, stress or mental health issues, or other types of leave such as bereavement or parent leave, when staff are suddenly unable to attend work, this can have a significant impact on services.
Thankfully, since temporary medical advisor services can be accessed on an as-needed basis, this allows for total flexibility and ensures things don’t grind to a sudden halt when unforeseen absences arise.
Recruitment Delays
Recruitment delays can sometimes leave you days, weeks or even months without a medical advisor in post. Utilising temporary medical adviser cover ensures your agency is still able to operate without restrictions in the meantime.
Busy Periods
Agencies can experience peak periods. For example, after national press coverage or during a recruitment drive for foster carers or an adoption campaign. During these times, you may find that the volume of applications and subsequent assessments increases beyond your current capacity.
Temporary medical advisor cover helps agencies maintain efficient assessment processes and keep the timeframe as short as possible, ensuring that foster carers and adopters are approved as swiftly as possible, ready to provide homes for children waiting.
The Benefits of Temporary Medical Advisor Cover
There are several benefits to utilising temporary medical adviser cover:
- Helps prevent delays and backlogs.
- Ensures your agency is able to move forward with foster carer or adopter applications and assessments.
- Ensures potential carers or adopters aren’t left frustrated or let-down by delays.
- No long-term contractual obligations ensures you aren’t stuck paying for services you no longer require.
- Helps to alleviate the pressure on your hardworking employees, improving morale, and reducing workplace stress.
- Helps uphold your agency’s reputation for excellence.
- Ultimately, helps you get potential foster carers and adopters to approval panels quicker, ensuring that high-quality fostering and adoption placements are available so that vulnerable children can find safe, loving homes sooner.
Why Use Orr Medical For Temporary Medical Advisor Cover?
At Orr Medical, we pride ourselves on having built strong, long-term relationships with our clients over the past 15 years. However, we also recognise the need for flexible, short-term assistance, and pride ourselves on our adaptability when providing temporary cover.
We’re committed to supporting fostering and adoption agencies and local authorities, and providing them with temporary medical advisor cover that suits their needs. We work with a range of clients throughout the UK, including large county councils, small fostering agencies, and everything in-between!
So if you require short-term medical adviser cover or think you could benefit from additional support during high-demand periods, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Our established and experienced team is ready to step in with the professional, tailored and timely assistance your agency needs.