Recruiting and retaining employees in the social care workforce is crucial for organisations. Learn effective strategies and best practices for attracting and retaining top talent in this field.
Our tools and resources can help you recruit and retain people who have the right values for your organisation and the adult social care sector.
As the demand for care and support grows, so does the need to recruit and retain more workers to deliver high quality care and support.
Support for individual employers and PAs
If you employ a personal assistant (PA) using direct payments from your local authority, a personal health budget, or with your own money, we have a range of resources to help make your role as an individual employer easier.
Values-based recruitment
Values-based recruitment is an evidence-based approach that enables employers to understand a candidate’s values, behaviours and attitudes.
Safer employment
Discover how implementing safer employment practices can enable you to create fairer, safer, and more inclusive workplace cultures for people who draw on care and support, and for staff and volunteers to work in.
Induction
A good induction can help new employees feel happy and settled in their role and promote a sense of belonging to you and to working in the care sector.
International recruitment
Find out more about recruiting from overseas safely, fairly and in line with official legislation.
Retaining your workforce
Invest in workforce retention to help with the continuity of high-quality care, positive workplace culture, staff wellbeing, time and cost savings, and positive CQC ratings.
Funded recruitment and development initiatives
There are many funded recruitment and development initiatives available to support adult social care employers recruit and develop new workers.