1. What kind of employee do you look for at Stambush Staffing?

Simply put, Stambush Staffing is looking for competent, hardworking professionals who want to see their professions succeed. We are also looking for nice people with whom others enjoy working. Finally, people who have good nervous systems and don't freak out easily (as well as those who possess the above attributes) usually have the most happiness and success at Stambush.

2. Do you hire new graduates or foreign-trained therapists?

Not without one year of direct patient care experience in the United States. Stambush Staffing has long taken a position against hiring new graduates or people with less than one year of clinical experience in the United States. Foreign-trained therapists and new graduates aren’t dumber by any means (Susan Stambush, PT, MTC, our co-founder, was trained in the Philippines), but we place our therapists in a wide range of clinical environments. Sometimes, these environments are especially challenging, and we have found that having at least one year of clinical experience in the United States is essential to meeting these challenges.

Once anyone has the required year of experience within the United States, they can submit an application for us to review.

3. What kind of quality screening or testing do you perform for prospective employees?

Stambush Staffing requires prospective therapists to take a competency test that assesses their capabilities as a therapist. It is not an easy test, and we have had a few veterans with 20 years of experience fail this test during an interview. By the same token, the large majority of people do very well on the test, even people with only one year of experience

4. Why do you think that is?

We think this is because most therapists have a very good foundation regardless of their years in the field, and people who know their craft do well on our test. Unfortunately, some people have been in some not-so-good settings, leaving their skills to erode (if they ever really existed). Failing the test once does not bar you from employment with Stambush forever, though. If a therapist fails, we encourage him or her to go work in a hospital for a minimum of six months. In a hospital setting, a prospective therapist will be exposed to a wide variety of clinical settings and many experienced people with whom he or she can work. After six months, we will allow a prospective therapist to retest. Of course, the test is different when he or she retakes it.

5. Do you pay your therapists any referral fees?

We sure do - check out the details here! However, we will not pay an employee a referral fee when that referral arises out of a staffing relationship. In other words, we will not create a corrupting motivation that will make it look like we are trying to steal staff from our customers. We want our customers to like our work, our people and our ethics.

6. Don't other agencies pay their therapists referral fees for referring a customer's therapists they meet on the job?

They do, but we don't. Other agencies do a lot of things we won't do (hiring inexperienced new graduates, hiring without a competency test). Our therapists as well as our management team want Stambush to be the most trustworthy agency around. That is not only the right way to do business, but it also helps us to get the most ethical work.

7. What kind of benefits do you offer?

We offer quite a few benefits – 401K, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance and more! Check out our Benefits section for more details.