481 care employers in Nottinghamshire could find you

Working in care in Nottinghamshire

Mansfield, Newark, Worksop and the villages between: where is the care work in Nottinghamshire?

Nottinghamshire is the county around Nottingham rather than the city itself, and it splits into seven districts with quite different characters: commuter suburbs such as Rushcliffe, Gedling and Broxtowe hugging the city, the old coalfield towns of Mansfield and Ashfield, the market town of Newark in the east and Bassetlaw stretching up towards South Yorkshire. Around one in five residents is 65 or over, a larger share than in England as a whole, and that group is expected to grow by 14% by 2031.

Mansfield is the main hub for care employers, about double anywhere else. Newark comes next, then Sutton-in-Ashfield and Worksop, with Retford not far behind. Home care agencies and care homes are close to evenly matched here, and there is a large number of nursing homes, so there is a genuine choice between visiting people at home and working shifts in one building. Around the market towns and Sherwood Forest villages, home care tends to involve driving between calls.

Nottinghamshire County Council supports people to employ their own personal assistants with direct payments, a personal health budget or their own money, and its guidance notes that most PAs working for people on direct payments are employees. People looking for a PA can search the Personal Assistant Directory on Your Notts Directory, and you can list yourself there too.

On the NHS side, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs King's Mill Hospital near Sutton-in-Ashfield, Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital, while Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop is part of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals. West Nottinghamshire College in Mansfield runs a free online Level 2 course in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care for adults, alongside Health and Social Care at Levels 2 and 3.

86% of the inspected care employers in Nottinghamshire are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 82% across the East Midlands and in line with England as a whole (85%).