Care work in South West
3,106 care employers in the South West could find you
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Care employers in the South West
The biggest group of care employers in the South West is care homes (43%), followed by home care agencies (41%) and nursing homes (16%). 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.
The local picture
What care work looks like in the South West
Care homes make up more of the work here than in much of England, with home care agencies at 41% of employers against 50% nationally.
90% of the inspected care employers in the South West are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 90% across the South West and above England as a whole (85%).
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Biggest towns for care work in the South West
- Gloucester157 care employers · Gloucestershire
- Bournemouth135 care employers · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Weston Super Mare89 care employers · North Somerset
- Taunton88 care employers · Somerset
- Salisbury83 care employers · Wiltshire
- Exeter77 care employers · Devon
- Poole76 care employers · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Cheltenham72 care employers · Gloucestershire
- Torquay61 care employers · Torbay
- Chippenham49 care employers · Wiltshire
- Trowbridge49 care employers · Wiltshire
- Newton Abbot48 care employers · Devon
Council areas in the South West
- Bath and North East Somerset79 care employers
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole255 care employers
- Bristol183 care employers
- Cornwall309 care employers
- Devon455 care employers
- Dorset198 care employers
- Gloucestershire371 care employers
- Isles of Scilly1 care employer
- North Somerset134 care employers
- Plymouth138 care employers
- Somerset310 care employers
- South Gloucestershire159 care employers
- Swindon101 care employers
- Torbay103 care employers
- Wiltshire310 care employers
Other regions
- East3,411 care employers
- East Midlands2,853 care employers
- London3,642 care employers
- North East1,137 care employers
- North West3,417 care employers
- South East5,174 care employers
- West Midlands3,241 care employers
- Yorkshire and Humberside2,680 care employers
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