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Recruiting in Leicestershire

Hiring across Leicestershire's towns and rural zones

There is no single centre to recruit from in Leicestershire. Employers sit in a ring of towns from Loughborough and Coalville in the north to Hinckley and Market Harborough in the south, and the council's own home care map carries separate rural and isolated price bands for areas where travel eats into the working day. Its market position statement also records real recruitment and retention pressure on home care providers, with some turning to overseas recruitment to fill rotas.

Where a carer lives therefore decides a lot. Someone in Shepshed is unlikely to want a daily run near Lutterworth, and the rural zones around Market Bosworth and the Harborough villages are hard to cover without drivers. The south is also changing quickly, with Harborough district growing faster than anywhere else in the East Midlands, while the city of Leicester in the middle has its own council and its own workforce. On Carer Badge, a Coalville home can look for people already living in Ibstock or Ashby rather than across the county.

For extra help, the county's Inspired to Care team supports adult social care employers with recruitment and retention across Leicester and Leicestershire, and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust's community hospital wards recruit from the same towns.

84% of the inspected care employers in Leicestershire are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 82% across the East Midlands and in line with England as a whole (85%).