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If registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) cannot be achieved within eight months, under SK9.6 of the Workers and Temporary Workers—sponsor a skilled worker guidance, and an individual changes to be sponsored in a different role, eg as a care worker, if they then achieve registration with the NMC, could they be re-hired as a registered nurse?

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Published on: 21 February 2023
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Assuming, in this scenario, a person is eligible for sponsorship as a care worker, and obtains Skilled Worker leave on that basis, they will then have permission to work in that capacity. See Practice Notes: Sponsoring a Skilled Worker and Applying under the Skilled Worker route.

The Workers and Temporary Workers: sponsor a skilled worker sponsor guidance (paras SK9.5-SK9.6) makes it a sponsor duty requirement for the sponsor to stop sponsoring overseas-trained nurses and midwives on the Skilled Worker route if they fail to complete their Nursing and Midwifery Council registration within eight months of either:

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    the start date on their Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) (if this is their first application for permission on the Skilled Worker route as a pre-registration nurse or midwife),

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