HEALTHCARE & SOCIAL CARE
Healthcare recruitment software built for NHS-scale hiring.
NHS trusts, care homes, and clinical staffing agencies use Zyverno to automate candidate screening, enforce compliance requirements, and shortlist qualified staff in hours, not weeks.
THE STATE OF HEALTHCARE HIRING
A sector under chronic staffing pressure
The NHS and adult social care sector face a structural staffing challenge that conventional recruitment processes were not designed for. High vacancy volumes, mandatory compliance checks, and candidate drop-off during slow hiring processes combine to create a crisis that costs both patients and organisations, and that only gets worse with manual screening at scale.
THE CHALLENGE
Why healthcare recruitment is harder than every other sector
Over 100,000 NHS vacancies at any one time
NHS England reported 100,020 open vacancies in Q2 2025/26, a figure that has remained persistently high for years. Adult social care vacancy rates run at 8.3%, three times the wider economy average. Reviewing every applicant manually at this volume is not sustainable.
Source: NHS England Digital, 202575+ days average time to hire
The average NHS time-to-hire exceeds 75 days and in some trusts reaches 131 days. In care home recruitment, candidates who wait this long accept competing offers. Every week of delay costs you the best applicants and extends agency dependency.
Source: NHS SBS / KPMG23% annual care sector turnover
Adult social care sees 23.1% workforce turnover annually, generating roughly 335,000 leavers per year. This constant churn means recruitment never stops, and manual screening at that pace burns out the teams responsible for it.
Source: Skills for Care, 2025HOW ZYVERNO HELPS
Automated screening built for healthcare and care home recruitment
Role-specific eligibility and compliance screening
Configure rules once: NMC or HCPC registration status, DBS level required, right-to-work eligibility, mandatory training completion, and minimum clinical experience. Every applicant is screened against these criteria at the moment they apply, before a recruiter opens a single CV. Enhanced DBS checks average 22 days to process; Zyverno flags candidates without the required clearance before they enter your pipeline, so you only progress candidates who are genuinely ready to work.
Lina AI: structured interviews at any hour, any device
Lina is Zyverno's AI screening assistant. It conducts structured voice or text interviews with candidates around the clock, asking about clinical background, shift availability, contract type, travel radius, and band preferences. Lina scores each candidate against a consistent rubric so hiring managers receive a ranked shortlist, not a stack of unreviewed applications. For clinical roles Lina probes mandatory training history, experience with specific patient groups, and regulatory registration, delivering the structured pre-screening that used to take a recruiter 30 minutes per call.
Same-day shortlist delivery to hiring managers
Qualified candidates are ranked and delivered to hiring managers the same day they apply. Managers see only candidates who cleared every eligibility gate, no wasted time on non-compliant or under-experienced applicants. Integration with NHS Jobs, your existing ATS, or agency job board feeds means the shortlist lands where your team already works, without disrupting established workflows.
WHY ZYVERNO
Why healthcare teams choose Zyverno over generic ATS screening
Most ATS tools treat healthcare compliance as an afterthought, a custom field a recruiter populates manually, after the fact. Zyverno was built for high-volume, compliance-heavy sectors. Healthcare eligibility rules such as NMC and HCPC registration, DBS bands, right-to-work verification, and mandatory training checks are first-class screening criteria, not workarounds bolted onto a general-purpose system.
For NHS trusts and care home groups managing multiple sites, Zyverno's centralised dashboard means every hiring manager applies the same shortlisting criteria consistently, removing the variance that leads to compliance failures and employment tribunal exposure. Every screening decision generates an automatic audit log: which criteria were applied, what the candidate stated, and how the score was calculated.
Whether you are an NHS trust filling Band 2 to 7 clinical support roles, a care home group running 40 HCA campaigns simultaneously, or a healthcare staffing agency that needs a branded candidate experience. Zyverno scales to your workflow. Reduce time to hire care workers and nurses from weeks to hours without adding headcount to your recruitment team.
COMPLIANCE
Audit-ready for CQC, CCG, and NHS inspections
Every screening decision is logged with the criteria applied, the candidate's responses, and the score produced. If a regulator or commissioner asks how you assessed candidates for a patient-facing role, you can demonstrate a fair, consistent, and documented process without searching through email threads. Candidate data is processed under UK GDPR, stored within the EU/EEA, and Zyverno provides a Data Processing Agreement for all customers.
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Further reading
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