Demand for care and support continues to grow, and Skills for Care estimates that around 390,000 people leave their jobs every year – that’s over 1,000 every day – and approximately 110,000 vacancies at any one time.
This means we need to increase the size and skills of the adult social care workforce, and stem the flow of wasted resources on recruiting people who aren’t going to stay in the sector.
Recruiting and retaining a skilled workforce, who have the right values, can help you deliver high quality and consistent care and support.
The Department of Health and Social Care are embarking on a national recruitment campaign for our sector. You can read more about this campaign. You can find out more about the campaign at one of our events.
National recruitment campaign
Every day is different when you care
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is about to launch a national adult social care workforce recruitment campaign to;
- raise awareness of, and drive recruitment into the sector,
- help equip the sector with the knowledge of how to support the campaign, boost the sector’s recruitment marketing.
Test advertising has been run in Gloucestershire and Tyne and Wear with both domiciliary and residential care providers and the Cabinet Office has given approval for the national campaign to go ahead. The campaign will run across websites, radio, social media and local press.
See more at www.everydayisdifferent.com
How to get involved
National recruitment campaign workshops
The Department of Health and Social Care is hosting a series of events around the country.
Wednesday 6 February
Cambridge – Wednesday 13 February
Doncaster – Monday 18 February
