Who on the ward already knows the right nurse?
Nurses know nurses. Sprad asks your own people, on the channel they already use, and keeps asking after week one.
Applicants, referrals and the nurses Atlas finds all land in one place — and the asking, the calling back and the follow-up run on their own. What you read is a live picture of who can actually start on the ward, and when.
78.2% of open elderly-care roles stay vacant. The inbox is empty because reach is the problem, not the ranking.
More than 60% of applicants abandon the application form. CV, cover letter, account: three walls before anyone talks.
Only 13.5% of providers accept a WhatsApp application. Care staff live on their phones between shifts, and most processes ignore that.
Sources: BA / KOFA 2024 · fokus›digital 2026
Referrals, screening and sourcing are three doors into the same base — and the fourth is what keeps the people who came through them. Take one, add the others when you need them; nothing has to be set up twice.
Nurses know nurses. Sprad asks your own people, on the channel they already use, and keeps asking after week one.
A real phone call the minute the application lands — or a web chat, if that suits them better.
Documents are still verified by a human. You just know before the callback whether it is worth making one.
You brief the role in two minutes. Atlas searches, writes the outreach and pre-qualifies every reply.
In care, losing one costs more than finding one. Every departure sends you back through the whole search, in the tightest labour market there is. The same base that got someone hired is the one that keeps them: what they can do, what they want next, and how they are actually doing on the ward.
Every provider has a referral programme on paper. The question is whether anyone takes part — and that is decided by whether it reaches the ward at all.
Alternative providers and ATS modules focus on the referral process. Sprad focuses on whether people actually take part — through a platform they can use and direct communication on Teams, Slack, WhatsApp and SMS. Which is the whole point on a ward, where most staff have no company email at all.
Whoever applies, gets referred or gets sourced keeps one living profile — owned by them, readable by you. Every door makes it richer, and your ATS stays in the loop. The care assistant you turned down in March is the ward nurse you need in September.
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Talent keep their own profile current, because it works for them too. So your pool never ages: whoever said no two years ago is findable and current today.
More than a CV: licence and recognition status, shift readiness, language level, evidence from real conversations. Every rating links back to the sentence it came from.
Sprad runs both ways with the ATS and HR system you already have. No migration, no second tool to maintain — your team keeps working where it always has.
Everyone who ever applied, was referred or was sourced sits in one place that belongs to you — not in an inbox, not in a spreadsheet, not in an agency's system. The profile itself belongs to the person, which is why they keep it current. You can search it, you can see the evidence behind every entry, and you can take it with you if you ever change your ATS.
It asks and records the answer as a hard fact: licence, recognition status, and where the qualification was obtained. It does not decide. The answer lands in your ATS as a checked data point with the exact quote attached, so your team verifies documents once instead of chasing them by phone.
The interview runs in the candidate's own language, twelve of them, and the report comes back in German so your ward manager can read it. Language level is only assessed when you list it as a requirement, and then separately from the professional assessment.
It's the design assumption. Invitation by WhatsApp, email or a direct phone call; the conversation itself runs as a call or a web chat and needs no app, no login and no password; and it can be paused and resumed if a shift starts.
The same documentation that satisfies a works council satisfies an MAV: what is asked, what is scored, what is excluded from scoring, and where the data sits. We provide it as a template you can take into the committee.
They keep their profile in the candidate portal and get honest feedback and matching roles. For you they stay in a talent pool that keeps itself current, which matters more in care than anywhere else.
No. Most providers start with referrals, because your own people are the channel that already works, and add screening as soon as applicants start arriving. Sourcing switches on later, on the same base, without a new setup.
No. Sprad runs on top of the ATS you already use, and results land where your team already works. If you don't have one, ours is free.