Find practical tools, guidance and resources to help you attract, recruit and retain the right people for your adult social care workforce.
Recruiting the right people has never been more important. Whether you're looking to fill vacancies quickly, attract a more diverse workforce or improve the quality of your recruitment, we're here to help.
Our recruitment support brings together practical guidance, proven approaches and free resources to help you recruit safely, fairly and effectively. From planning your recruitment campaign through to onboarding new staff, you'll find tools to support every stage of the recruitment journey.
Whatever your organisation's size or setting, these resources can help you build a skilled, confident and sustainable workforce.
Values-based recruitment
Values-based recruitment is an evidence-based approach that enables employers to understand a candidate’s values, behaviours and attitudes.
Safer recruitment
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.
Recruiting young people
Learn how to attract, recruit and develop young people in adult social care.
International recruitment
Find out more about recruiting from overseas safely, fairly and in line with official legislation.
Induction toolkit
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.
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.
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.
Practical examples and learning
Explore practical examples, case studies and workforce insights to help strengthen recruitment, retention and workforce development.