Home Care Recruitment Support (Updated March 2021)
This page contains a range of resources to support providers with recruitment and retention. This is a live page with regular updates to information and resources, so please check back frequently for the latest updates:
08/03/2021 - Short-term paid work in adult social care
The Department of Health and Social Care will pass member of the public details to thelocal authority and local adult social care service providers. Your local authority via CMDT will contact you directly with opportunities to engage individuals:
Please email cmdt@staffordshire.gov.uk with email details for your recruitment team and we will pass candidates who are within 5 miles of the post code you provide:
Updated ‘Recommendations for CQC providers’ guide.
Our partners at Skills for Care have shared with us what CQC expects to see around recruitment and retention, learning and development and leadership and management, and provided practical resources can help you to meet the standards. Download the free online guide here.
4th May 2020
This link explains that employee referrals followed by local jobs Boards and using “paid Face Book advertising” are most effective recruitment and retention methods. More from Practical Steps For Recruiting During Coronavirus
Here is the link arising out of the Adult Social Care Action Plan entitled:
30th December 2019
- Many have picked up on the expert consultancy available through Neil Eastwood and there is an opportunity to benefit further through a fantastic offer to care providers in Staffordshire at a substantially discounted rate of £199+VAT.
You will be guided through a series of step-by-step video tutorials and downloadable resources.
Module Overviews:
1. Care Recruitment Fundamentals
2. Attraction
3. Sourcing
4. Building an Effective Recruitment Process
5. Screening, Selection & Interviewing
20th September 2019 - National recruitment campaign
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is running a national recruitment campaign to drive applications into the adult social care sector. Funding has been approved for the second national wave of the Every Day Is Different campaign starting in the autumn 2019. Read more about this campaign here.
8th August 2019 - Helping you to recruit the right people
Watch our new animated video which highlights the benefits of using a values-based approach to recruitment and retention. It includes information about how we can support you in your recruitment and retention practices. Visit our website for more information.
A great idea is to show those interested in working with your team the Every day is different quiz and videos.https://www.everydayisdifferent.com/could-you-care-quiz.aspx
5th August 2019 - Top Tips Recruitment and Retention
CMDT have provided selection of the best ideas and tips from across our sector. Taken from sources like the Every Day Is Different campaign, Top trainers such as Neil Eastwood and strategic organisations such as Skills for Care. Follow needs to assist with your workforce development success. This document called Top Tips Recruitment & Retention Ideas & Links is provided for you to print from the link on this webpage.
16th July 2019 - Latest Newsletter detailing Recruitment and Retention news
Our Bi-monthly synopsis of the support we are coordinating, links to latest training and information on funding are included in July version available for printing via a download on this page with the title: Recruitment & Retention Newsletter_July 2019
28th June 2019 - Care Career Staffordshire
Staffordshire County Council have now made the following website available to all contracted home care providers to advertise their vacancies. We recommend adding vacancies using the Rule of 3 i.e. firstly your local website/facebook, secondly the Every Day Is Different Campaign and thirdly the Care Career Staffordshire recruitment portal
Instructions on How to create an account and upload your own jobs and access to free resources provided by the National Recruitment Campaign.
18th June 2019 - Busting the Myths
Support for your recruitment coordinator and DWP coaches and employment advisers can be downloaded from the link on the right of this page. This coaching information includes typical questions asked by someone with little knowledge of working as a carer but who may be considering a change of career or has been away from the workplace for a period of time.
12th June 2019 - Free Recruitment Marketing Resources
Recruitment posters designs are free resources provided by the national campaign. All you need to do is decide how many you need and have them printed.
Posters can be printed and displayed across your organisation and you can co-brand the posters by adding your logo.
21st May 2019 - Message from John Henderson CEO Staffordshire County Council
A really good example of linking strategy to tactics came to my attention this week from Alison Hasdell of the Care Market Development Team (CMDT). Providing Home Care for some of Staffordshire’s most vulnerable residents is one of our most important tasks, and one of the most difficult. The profession has suffered from a poor reputation as a career, with 40% staff turnover annually, poor morale and the consequent fragility of providers; you simply can’t run an organisation effectively if you’re recruiting, training and exiting close to half your staff every year. The CMDT have launched a Health & Social Care sector membership package for Staffordshire Care Providers in association with the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce. This is the first health & social care package developed specifically for businesses in this sector nationally. It offers care providers access to a range of support, guidance and networking to help grow and sustain successful care businesses, drawing on the advice and support of other dynamic Staffordshire business leaders.
We are really proud that the team has forged a partnership with Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce to help Staffordshire care providers recruit and retain staff. For me, this is a practical example of our people “thinking outside the box”; it involves a bit more effort now, but it will reap benefits in the future. If it is successful in Staffordshire, it could, and indeed should, be rolled out nationwide.
You can obtain membership details by messaging cmdt@staffordshire.gov.uk
20th May 2019 Messages being used this week by Councillor Alan White:
“The need for care of one sort or another is increasing as our population ages, bringing with it new jobs and new career opportunities in care and an opportunity to make a very human difference to the lives of our citizens.”
“Working in the care sector can be a hugely rewarding career choice and Staffordshire already has a growing number of outstanding care services, clear progression opportunities and lots of professional training available.”
“Our Care Market Development team is committed to supporting the social care sector in Staffordshire to recruit, retain and develop high quality, highly skilled staff, who in turn deliver high quality services. They do this by working alongside Department for Work and Pensions employment advisers to support local people interested in looking for jobs in social care and, providing links and support to employers looking to recruit and train staff and facilitating a wide variety of training courses for the local care sector.”
“In Staffordshire, we highly value the role our carers provide, both informally for family, neighbours or friends, and professionally. We will be holding our 5th annual Dignity in Care Awards at Newcastle-under-Lyme college on 10th July to recognise and award care companies and carers across the county who have been nominated and shortlisted for putting dignity at the heart of the care they deliver with a range of generously donated prizes.”
17th May 2019
- Are you looking for local employment advisor support and access to those looking for work in your local area? Free rooms for interviews can be provided by your local job centre plus employment advisor. Please contact cmdt@staffordshire.gov.uk for a list of contacts. Your Stafford employment advisor is SEAN.HARRIS@dwp.gov.uk on 01785 821013.
- Workforce Development Funding
Have you claimed workforce development monies?
Have your staff received certificates / diplomas from accreditted learning dated later than 1st January 2019.
Have you checked if they are eligible for WDF funding?
You can claim funding towards the cost of qualifications and learning programmes completed between 1 January 2019 and the 31 March 2020. This includes money towards the cost of course fees (or employer contributions) and associated costs such as:
- employees’ salaries whilst they are undertaking training
- coaching and mentoring costs
- venue costs for the training
- wage replacement costs.
All costs must be incurred before WDF is claimed and employers must ensure that they have records in place to evidence the costs of any funding claim they make.
For more information and support with your claims, request a Member’s Declaration Form 2019-20 from us as your WDF Disbursement Partner