94 care employers in Calderdale could find you

Working in care in Calderdale

Halifax and the Calder Valley: is there care work near you?

Most of Calderdale's care services are in and around Halifax, which holds about two thirds of them. Brighouse has a smaller cluster, and the rest are spread up the valley through Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, or in hilltop places like Ripponden and Northowram. The valley sides are steep and the roads twist, so a home care round that looks short on a map can take longer than you expect, especially in winter.

The borough is getting older. Census 2021 put Calderdale's median age at 42, up two years in a decade, and the number of people aged 65 to 74 rose by about a quarter. That growth is a big reason home care agencies, which make up around half of local services, keep looking for staff.

Calderdale Council explains direct payments with a real example: a man who needed help getting in and out of bed used his to employ his own personal assistant, so he no longer had to be in bed by 7pm to fit an agency's timetable. The council says people cannot employ a relative or partner who lives in the same house, and a care package can be split between a direct payment and council arranged services. PA work therefore sits alongside agency jobs here, and it is worth saying on your Carer Badge profile if it interests you.

For NHS comparison, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust runs Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax. Calderdale College in Halifax offers Health and Social Care at Level 2, a Lead Adult Care course at Level 3 and Leader in Adult Care at Level 5, which gives you a local route from first job to management.

83% of the inspected care employers in Calderdale are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 84% across Yorkshire and Humberside and in line with England as a whole (85%).