118 care employers in Sutton could find you

Working in care in Sutton

Why Sutton suits carers who like care homes as much as home visits

Most London boroughs are dominated by home care agencies. Sutton is more balanced: care homes come close to matching home care services in number, and there are around twenty nursing homes too, a lot for a borough of about 210,000 people. That gives you a genuine choice between a settled team in one building and a round of home visits. Wallington has the most care employers, followed by Carshalton, with the rest spread across Sutton town centre and the surrounding suburbs.

Sutton sits on London's southern edge, next to Surrey, and in some ways it lives like a Surrey town. More than three quarters of households have a car or van, and the borough grew by over 10% between 2011 and 2021, faster than London as a whole. The number of residents aged 50 to 64 rose by almost a fifth, so the demand for care is only heading one way.

The borough has also become more diverse. Tamil is the most common main language after English, followed by Polish, Urdu, Bulgarian and Romanian, and India is now the second most common country of birth. Any of those languages is worth adding to your profile.

The London Borough of Sutton offers direct payments so people can choose their own support, including hiring a specific care worker who has been recommended to them, which is where personal assistant work comes from. The council also runs a Shared Lives service, where carers welcome adults with learning disabilities, mental health needs or older people into their home for long stays, short breaks or days out. For training, Sutton College runs a Level 1 Award in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care and shorter courses in dementia awareness and falls prevention. If you are weighing up NHS work, St Helier Hospital in Carshalton is run by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

96% of the inspected care employers in Sutton are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 88% across London and above England as a whole (85%).