Health & social care staffing, Essex & Suffolk

When your rota has a gap,
we fill it with someone
who turns up.

Zerago Staffing Agency supplies vetted, compliant care and healthcare staff to providers across Essex and Suffolk — often within hours, not days.

Request cover now Call 01206 645198
DBS-checked Right-to-work verified Compliance profile completed before deployment
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The problem

A shift falls through, and someone has to answer for it.

Sickness, a no-show, a last-minute leave request — one person short on the rota, and you're the one carrying the risk: thin cover, a safeguarding gap, a question you don't want to answer at inspection.

Most agencies treat that call as tomorrow's problem. We don't.

Why Zerago

Local. Reliable.
Compliant. Responsive.

We don't compete on price. We compete on being the agency that actually shows up.

ReliableWorkers who commit, work the shift.

Workers who commit to a shift work it. No-shows and late cancellations are tracked and managed hard, not shrugged off.

FastSame-day and next-day requests.

Need cover for tonight? Tell us the shift and we start matching immediately, including same-day and next-day requests.

CompliantChecked before booking, not after.

Every worker arrives with a completed compliance profile — DBS, right-to-work, references, training — checked before they're booked, not after.

LocalBuilt around Essex and Suffolk.

Our workforce is built around Essex and Suffolk, not spread thin nationwide. That's what makes short-notice cover possible.

Who we staff

Cover for every part of the rota.

Whatever role fell through, we likely have someone ready for it.

  • Healthcare Assistantsdays, nights, weekends
  • Care Assistantsresidential and nursing
  • Support Workerswaking nights, sleep-ins, 1:1 and 2:1
  • Senior Care Assistantsshift leads and medication
  • Registered NursesNMC-verified, incl. night nurses
  • Specialist Support Workersautism, learning disability, complex care

How it works

From gap in the rota to shift covered — four steps.

1

Tell us the shift.

Call, email, or submit a request — role, dates, times, anything specific we should know.

2

We match a compliant worker.

We check our local pool for the closest available, right-skilled person for the shift.

3

They turn up and work it.

Fully briefed, fully compliant, ready from the first minute.

4

You sign off, we invoice.

A simple timesheet approval and straightforward billing — no surprises.

Built for a regulated sector

Every worker comes with a paper trail, not just a pulse.

A completed compliance profile is checked and on file before a worker is ever booked. This is what you receive with every placement:

Where we cover

Built around Essex and Suffolk, not spread thin.

A dense local workforce is the reason short-notice cover works. These are the clusters we staff today.

Plus the surrounding Essex and Suffolk areas. Don't see your location listed? Ask — the coverage cluster grows as demand does.

No long-term commitment required

Make Zerago your backup agency.

You don't have to drop your current agency to work with us. Get approved as a supplier, give us one shift, and see how we perform. Most of our clients started exactly that way.

Get approved as a supplier
1Supplier pack, insurance and policies sent the same day
1Shift — that's all we ask for to start
0Exclusivity, minimum volume or notice period

Request cover

Tell us what you need covered.

Fill in the form or call directly — whichever gets you an answer faster.

Phone01206 645198 Emailinfo@zeragostaffingagency.co.uk

Urgent shift tonight? Call. The phone is the fastest route for same-day cover.

We reply to every request. Same-day requests get a call back.

Request sent.

Your email app has opened with the request pre-filled — press send and we'll start matching. If it didn't open, call 01206 645198 or email info@zeragostaffingagency.co.uk.