Care work in Enfield
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Care employers in Enfield
Most care employers in Enfield are home care agencies (59%), followed by care homes (33%) and nursing homes (8%). Choose the settings you want and only those employers will see you.
Registered services from the Care Quality Commission register, updated regularly. A service registered for both home care and residential care is counted in each.
Working in care in Enfield
Green Belt in the west, busy streets in the east: where does care work take you in Enfield?
Enfield sits at the very top of London, and it changes a lot from one side to the other. Some 37 per cent of the borough is Green Belt, so the north and west open out into fields and parkland, while the east is more built up. Older residents are not spread evenly either. Age UK Enfield notes that Cockfosters, Highlands and Grange wards in the west have the highest proportions of people over 65, while several areas in the east are among the most deprived in the borough. Two home care rounds a few miles apart can feel like different places.
It is also a borough of many languages. At the 2021 census, 58.7% of residents gave England as their country of birth, and nearly 19,000 people named Turkish as their main language, with almost 5,000 more naming Polish. If you speak either, or any other language used locally, put it on your profile. Being able to chat with someone in their own language can make a visit far easier for them.
Enfield Council offers direct payments, which people can use to pay an agency or to employ a personal assistant themselves. The council's guidance says anyone choosing to employ their own carer is offered help from an outside provider with recruitment and with being an employer, and it points people to a personal assistant register through Enfield's online marketplace. So private PA work is part of the local picture.
For NHS comparison, North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton and Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield have both been run by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust since January 2025. The Overground's Weaver line runs out to Enfield Town, which helps if you don't drive. Capital City College runs a part-time Level 1 Health and Social Care course at its Enfield centre for adults and school leavers.
83% of the inspected care employers in Enfield are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 88% across London and in line with England as a whole (85%).
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Care employers around Enfield
Every dot is a CQC-registered care service. We don’t name them, and locations are approximate.
- Home care agencies
- Care homes
- Nursing homes
Questions about care work in Enfield
Is home care different in the west of Enfield compared with the east?
Often, yes. The wards with the highest share of people over 65, such as Cockfosters, Highlands and Grange, are in the greener west of the borough, where homes are more spread out and driving helps. Say on your profile whether you drive and which parts of Enfield you can reach.
Can I find personal assistant work in Enfield?
Yes. People on Enfield Council direct payments can hire a personal assistant, and the council's online marketplace points them to a PA register. The person you support, or someone acting for them, would be your employer.
I speak Turkish. Will that help me get care work in Enfield?
It can. Nearly 19,000 Enfield residents gave Turkish as their main language at the 2021 census, so a carer who can chat with an older person in Turkish is valuable. Make sure it is listed among your languages.
Sources for this page
- Enfield Council: direct payments (adult social care)
- MyLife Enfield: Factsheet DP04, direct payments FAQs (employing a PA, recruitment support, PA register on Enfield's marketplace)
- Age UK Enfield strategic plan 2022 to 2027 (Cockfosters, Highlands and Grange wards have highest proportions of over 65s; deprivation in the east)
- OnLondon: Enfield Green Belt (some 37 per cent of Enfield is Green Belt)
- ONS: How life has changed in Enfield, Census 2021 (58.7% born in England)
- ONS Census 2021 main language by local authority (Turkish 18,765; Polish 4,804 in Enfield)
- Enfield Dispatch: North Mid merges with Royal Free London (Barnet, Chase Farm, Royal Free and North Mid hospitals)
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (merger with North Middlesex on 1 January 2025)
- North London NHS Foundation Trust: about us (mental health care in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington)
- NHS West and North London ICB (covers Enfield)
- TfL: Overground line names (Weaver line, Liverpool Street to Cheshunt, Enfield Town and Chingford)
- Capital City College: Health and Social Care Level 1, Enfield campus, part time
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