302 care employers in Warwickshire could find you

Working in care in Warwickshire

North or south of the county: where does Warwickshire's care work sit?

Warwickshire splits fairly neatly in two when you look at where care services are. In the north, Rugby and Nuneaton each have more than fifty registered care employers, with Bedworth just down the road, so rounds there tend to stay inside busy towns. The south works differently. Leamington Spa, Warwick and Kenilworth sit close together, but past them Stratford-upon-Avon and Alcester give way to villages and lanes where getting between visits can take a real drive.

The south of the county is also noticeably older. Census 2021 put the median age in Stratford-on-Avon district at 48, against 40 for England, and that shows in steady demand for help at home and for care home places. If you live in a village between Stratford and Shipston on Stour and you drive, the work may be closer than you think, so make that clear on your Carer Badge profile.

Warwickshire County Council lets people take their care budget as a direct payment, and its guidance says the money can be used to employ their own personal assistant rather than buy from an agency. So PA jobs exist with individual employers all over the county, and the council points those employers to Penderels Trust and Skills for Care for support.

If you are weighing up NHS work, South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust runs Warwick Hospital and community hospitals in Stratford and Shipston, George Eliot Hospital serves Nuneaton, and Rugby has the Hospital of St Cross, part of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. For qualifications, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College has a campus in Nuneaton and runs Health and Social Care courses, while Stratford-upon-Avon College offers a Level 2 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care and a Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care.

82% of the inspected care employers in Warwickshire are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 79% across the West Midlands and below England as a whole (85%).