177 care employers in Medway could find you

Working in care in Medway

Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester: where does care work happen in Medway?

Medway is really a string of towns that have grown into one another along the river: Strood and Rochester on either side of the bridge, then Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham heading east, with the quieter villages of the Hoo Peninsula to the north. Rochester has the most care employers, with Chatham and Gillingham level just behind. Because the towns sit so close together, a home care round here is usually a matter of short hops through built up streets rather than country lanes, though the peninsula villages are a different story.

Home care agencies make up most of Medway's care employers, roughly twice as many as care homes. It is also a younger place than you might expect. At the 2021 census the median age was 38, below both the South East and England, so the work is not only with older people: supporting younger adults with disabilities or mental health needs is part of the picture too.

Medway Council has something many areas lack: a register for personal assistants. If you would like to work directly for someone who pays for their care through a direct payment, you can fill in the council's online form with your availability, where you can work and the kind of people you want to support, and you will be added to its database and given access to PA roles as they are advertised.

For NHS work, Medway NHS Foundation Trust runs Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham. MidKent College teaches Health and Social Care study programmes at its Medway campus as well as in Maidstone.

64% of the inspected care employers in Medway are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 84% across the South East and below England as a whole (85%).