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Working in care in Telford and Wrekin

What should carers know about working in Telford and Wrekin?

Telford is a new town built around old ones. It was designated in 1963 as Dawley New Town, renamed in 1968, and grew to take in Wellington, Oakengates, Madeley and Dawley, with the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site on its southern edge. The borough has grown quickly: the 2021 census counted nearly 190,000 people, up 11.3 per cent in ten years, well ahead of England's 6.6 per cent. Newport, a market town to the north, is the other main centre.

Home care is the biggest part of the local market, with more than twice as many home care agencies as care homes, and nearly all care employers are based in Telford itself. Because the town was planned around roads, with the M54 running along it and Telford Central station on the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton line, a car helps a great deal. If you cover Newport or the villages towards the Wrekin, driving is close to essential.

Telford & Wrekin Council pays direct payments so people can choose who cares for them, with some exceptions, and its Direct Payments Team runs a weekly drop in at the Independent Living Centre. The council points PAs and their employers to Skills for Care individual employer funding for training. When people leave hospital, the Telford Integrated Community Assessment Team, based at the Princess Royal Hospital, plans their return home with enablement support.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust runs the Princess Royal in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury. Under its Hospitals Transformation Programme, due in 2028, the Princess Royal becomes the planned care site and Shrewsbury the emergency centre. Telford College offers health and social care courses for adults, including online Level 2 courses.

80% of the inspected care employers in Telford and Wrekin are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 79% across the West Midlands and below England as a whole (85%).