United Kingdom is hiring 11 of our professions.
- 97,475 open NHS vacancies — 6.5% of the workforce · nhs vacancy statistics · mar 2026
Health & Care Worker visa → settlement after 5 years
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United Kingdom
Regulated by HCPC
In their own words.
How overseas allied health professionals (AHPs) can enter the UK for work.
- NHS over-reliant on overseas staff, health chiefs warn
- The overseas staff serving the South East NHS
Where the United Kingdom scale starts.
The entry grade on the employer's own published scale. Your grade depends on the post you are appointed to.
Band 5, entry step · a year
Source: nhsemployers.org · agenda for change pay scales · 1 Apr 2026
11 of our 12 are listed here.
PhysiotherapistNamed in the NHS workforce plan (training up to 5%)
Occupational TherapistNamed among the greatest AHP shortfalls
RadiographerNamed among the greatest AHP shortfalls
Medical Lab ScientistEligible for the Health & Care Worker visa (SOC 2113)
DietitianDietetics training places to rise 25–50%
OptometristEligible for the Health & Care Worker visa (SOC 2252)
Speech-Language PathologistNamed among the greatest AHP shortfalls
Medical Social WorkerEligible for the Health & Care Worker visa (SOC 2461)
Operating Department PractitionerTraining places to rise at least 80% — greatest AHP shortfall
PodiatristTraining places to rise at least 80% — greatest AHP shortfall
Social Care Worker6.2% adult social care vacancy rate, 2025/26Not open here today
- Dispensing OpticianHealth & Care Worker visa: extend or switch only — closed to new applicants
8 of our 12 professions — plus GOC for optometrists and dispensing opticians
- Degree, transcripts & syllabus mapped to its Standards of Proficiency
- Registration and experience in your home country
- English language test
One regulator, one process, fifteen professions. It registers a lab scientist as a Biomedical Scientist.
See the regulator pageOpen on the boards in United Kingdom.
Counts go stale. Each one carries the board it came from, how it was matched, and the day we read it.
Four steps into United Kingdom.
We check your fit
Your degree, syllabus and hours against HCPC's own published standards.
We build the file
Every document in the form HCPC asks for, apostilled in the right order.
We stay to the decision
Filed in your own account. Every query drafted by us, sent by you, tracked to the answer.
Registration, then the visa
Registration comes first. The visa route follows United Kingdom's published framework.
See your own route to United Kingdom.
Two answers. Ten seconds. Then the facts for your profession.