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Recruiting in Rutland

Recruiting in a county with a small local workforce

Rutland's own pool of care workers is small. With around 41,000 residents, an older population and very low density, a care home or agency in Oakham will usually need staff from Melton Mowbray, Stamford, Corby or the surrounding Leicestershire and Lincolnshire villages as well as Rutland itself. Almost all of the county's care employers are in or around Oakham, so they are also competing with each other for the same few local candidates.

Village visits around Uppingham or the Rutland Water villages need drivers, since CallConnect runs only in the daytime and not on Sundays. Because so many households are linked to Kendrew and St George's Barracks, some capable carers will be newcomers who have arrived with a posting and not yet found local employers, and a Carer Badge search reaching over the border into Stamford and Melton widens a very small field.

Families employing their own PAs are part of the same market. The council keeps a list of local PAs and a Personal Assistant Network, so some experienced carers work privately for Rutland households.

78% of the inspected care employers in Rutland are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 82% across the East Midlands and below England as a whole (85%).