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Recruiting in Hackney

Staffing home care across a small, crowded borough

Hackney has only around fifty registered care employers, almost all of them home care, in a compact borough where visits are often reached on foot, by bus or on the Overground rather than by car. Because it is so small, your best candidate may well live in Haringey, Islington, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest, and a carer from Tottenham can sometimes reach Stamford Hill faster than someone from the south of Hackney.

Matching language and culture is often what makes a Hackney care package work. Turkish is the most common main language after English, Spanish comes third, and the borough has the largest Yiddish speaking population in the country, centred on its Orthodox Jewish community in the north east. Some clients from these communities will be more comfortable with a carer who shares their language and understands their customs.

On the nursing side, the few local nursing services compete with Homerton Healthcare, which runs the hospital and community services across City and Hackney. A Carer Badge search can reach carers just over the border in Tottenham or Walthamstow as easily as those in Dalston.

87% of the inspected care employers in Hackney are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 88% across London and in line with England as a whole (85%).