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Recruiting in Lincolnshire

Recruiting when your next carer might live twenty villages away

Distance is the recruiting problem in Lincolnshire. Lincoln has a dense cluster of services, but homes and agencies in Spalding, Sleaford, Louth or along the coast draw on a much thinner local workforce, and many candidates need their own car because rural buses run only on demand and only in daytime. South Holland is among the most sparsely populated tenth of English council areas.

Care homes outnumber home care agencies here, and on the coast they serve the oldest population in the East Midlands, so a home in Mablethorpe or Louth may find its nearest suitable candidate lives a long drive away. Boston is a different picture: around a fifth of residents aged three and over have a main language other than English, which can help a service match carers to the people it supports.

The hospitals are recruiting in the same towns, with Lincoln County, Pilgrim in Boston and Grantham and District all run by one trust. Carer Badge helps most where the gaps are widest, finding someone already living near Skegness or Sutton on Sea for a coastal round.

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