Febin Cyriac
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Febin Cyriac | |
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 Febin Cyriac | |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder and CEO of Envertiz Consultancy |
Febin Puthenkalayil Cyriac is a businessman based in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Envertiz Consultancy, a healthcare recruitment company incorporated in Scotland in 2014.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Cyriac trained as a nurse in India and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2010, where he completed a nursing degree.[3]
Career
[edit]Cyriac began his career as a nurse in India before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 2010. In England he worked in private nursing homes and the prison service, and for a nursing agency in the Cambridge area.[1][4] He later moved to Aberdeen to work with a nursing recruitment agency, where he took on a business development role and became aware of shortages in the supply of nurses to the National Health Service (NHS) and of the barriers that English-language testing posed for overseas candidates.[5][4]
In 2014, Cyriac founded Envertiz Consultancy, funding the venture from his savings, to recruit overseas nurses for the UK.[1][4] He operated the business on a model that did not charge recruited nurses upfront fees, which was uncommon in the recruitment market in Kerala at the time.[4] The company grew from a self-funded start-up into a business with around 100 employees and an annual turnover of about £20 million by 2019.[4][1] It is headquartered in Aberdeen and mainly recruits nurses from India, for the NHS.[1] By 2023, the company had recruited more than 10,000 nurses for over 100 NHS trusts.[1][3]
Policy advocacy
[edit]In 2014, Cyriac started an online petition calling on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to lower the IELTS English-language score required of overseas nurses.[5] The petition, then signed by more than 3,600 people, gained wider attention in 2017.[6][7] Cyriac also took part in a campaign, supported by the trade union Unison, that contributed to the NMC relaxing its English-language requirements.[1]
Recognition
[edit]In 2023, Cyriac was profiled in Forbes in an article about internationally trained nurses in the United Kingdom,[4] and was profiled in Nursing Standard.[3] He received the Business Excellence Award at the British Malayali Janaseva Awards in 2026.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Findlay, Keith (27 March 2023). "Aberdeen firm Envertiz brings more than 10,000 nurses to UK". The Press and Journal. The Press and Journal. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ "Envertiz Consultancy Ltd (company SC480804)". Companies House. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 Stacey, Alison (20 April 2023). "10,000+ Keralan nurse recruits help plug NHS staffing gap". Nursing Standard. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Coleman, Alison (2 March 2023). "The Nurse-Turned-Recruitment Entrepreneur Who Helped Unlock The Global Nursing Job Market". Forbes. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- 1 2 Lema, Karen (8 April 2019). "Filling Brexodus gap, Filipino nurses find English tests too daunting". Reuters. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ Merrifield, Nicola (26 June 2017). "English language testing petition surges in popularity". Nursing Times. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ Donnelly, Laura (21 May 2017). "Easier language tests could be brought in for foreign nurses". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ "British Malayali Janaseva Awards" (in Malayalam). British Malayali. Retrieved 21 September 2026.