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276 care employers recruit in Croydon
Most care employers in Croydon are home care agencies (56%), followed by care homes (33%) and nursing homes (12%). Carers here can choose between them. A profile search lets you reach people before they apply anywhere else.
Registered services from the Care Quality Commission register, updated regularly. A service registered for both home care and residential care is counted in each.
Recruiting in Croydon
Croydon's north and south pull on different carers
Croydon splits in two for recruitment. Care homes are concentrated in South Croydon, Purley and Coulsdon, while the CQC notes that the highest deprivation and the most populous wards are in the north of the borough. Carers living around Thornton Heath or Bensham Manor reach the southern homes by train or bus rather than tram, and those homes can also draw on Sutton, Bromley and the Surrey towns just over the border.
Personal assistants are in short supply. The CQC's 2025 assessment heard that the direct payment rate had not been enough to fund PAs because most expected higher pay, and that the council had since raised the rate in line with the London Living Wage and was working to grow its PA and micro-enterprise market. That means home care and care home employers are competing with a growing pool of private PA and micro-enterprise work for the same people, especially carers who speak one of the borough's many community languages.
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88% of the inspected care employers in Croydon are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 88% across London and above England as a whole (85%).
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Care employers around Croydon
Every dot is a CQC-registered care service. We don’t name them, and locations are approximate.
- Home care agencies
- Care homes
- Nursing homes
Questions about recruiting in Croydon
Why might a Croydon care home struggle more than a home care agency to recruit?
Care homes are clustered in the south of the borough, around South Croydon, Purley and Coulsdon, while the most populous wards are in the north. Shifts that start early or finish late depend on how easily staff can travel south, so carers on a direct train or bus route are worth prioritising.
Where can our new staff train locally?
Croydon College runs a Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care and a range of Level 2 distance learning courses in areas such as adult social care, autism awareness and behaviour that challenges. The distance courses suit staff who are already working shifts.
Sources for this page
- CQC: Croydon local authority assessment, October 2025 (largest London borough by population, about 390,800, younger age profile, more than 100 languages, deprivation highest in the north, South West London ICS)
- CQC: Croydon assessment, supporting people (PA pay and availability, direct payment rate raised in line with London Living Wage, PAs fluent in community languages, PA and micro-enterprise market)
- ONS: How life has changed in Croydon, Census 2021
- Croydon Council: direct payments for adults (KCIL support, Small Good Stuff directory)
- Croydon Council: employing a personal assistant for care (family and friends, household rule, council pays for DBS check)
- Croydon Council: Community Micro-Enterprises (8 or fewer workers, enquiry form)
- Kingston Centre for Independent Living: Croydon direct payments support
- Wikipedia: London Borough of Croydon (no Underground station, Tramlink routes)
- TfL: trams
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust: Croydon University Hospital
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust: Purley War Memorial Hospital
- NHS South West London ICB
- Croydon College: Health and Social Care courses
- Croydon College: Diploma in Adult Care Level 3
- Croydon College: Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care Level 2 (online)
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