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Who you’re recruiting against
95 care employers recruit in Merton
Most care employers in Merton are home care agencies (62%), followed by care homes (22%) and nursing homes (16%). 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 Merton
Hiring in Merton, between St George's and St Helier
Merton has no large acute hospital inside its boundary, but it sits between two: St George's in Tooting, just north east, and St Helier in Carshalton, just south. Both belong to the same NHS hospital group, and both recruit healthcare assistants and nurses from the same neighbourhoods you do. Nursing homes in particular save time when they can see that a nurse lives a short trip away and has already had their NMC registration verified.
The borough's population grew by almost 8% between the last two censuses and its median age rose from 34 to 37, so demand from older residents is building. Carers are also mobile here: a third of households have no car, and the Northern line, trains and buses make it realistic for someone in Tooting, Streatham or Sutton to work in Mitcham or Morden. Carer Badge lets you search by distance from your postcode rather than by borough, and profiles show whether each carer drives and how far they will travel.
99% of the inspected care employers in Merton are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 88% across London and above England as a whole (85%).
Who else is recruiting near you
Care employers around Merton
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 Merton
Can I find carers in Merton who speak Polish or Tamil?
Yes, if they have listed the language on their profile. Polish and Tamil are the most common main languages in Merton after English, and you can filter your search by language.
Should I look outside Merton for carers?
Usually it helps. Merton is a narrow borough with Wandsworth, Sutton, Croydon, Lambeth and Kingston all close by, so a distance search from your postcode will pick up carers living just over the boundary who can reach you quickly.
Sources for this page
- ONS: How life has changed in Merton, Census 2021 (population up 7.8% to 215,200; median age 34 to 37)
- Census 2021 TS024 main language, Merton (Polish 5,761, Tamil 5,271, Portuguese 3,157, Urdu 3,153)
- Census 2021 TS045 car or van availability, Merton (27,009 of 81,726 households with no car)
- Wikipedia: Morden tube station (southern terminus of its branch of the Northern line)
- Merton Council: direct payments
- Merton Council: direct payments, being an employer (close family in same household, payroll providers, Skills for Care PA toolkit)
- Merton Council: become a Shared Lives carer
- Merton Council: safeguarding adults
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (St George's, Tooting; part of the St George's, Epsom and St Helier group)
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: our hospitals (St Helier Hospital, Carshalton)
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
- Merton College: L2 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care (NCFE)
- Merton College: Health and Social Care courses (Level 1 award, Access to Nursing)
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Towns in Merton
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- Enfield195 care employers
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- Ealing154 care employers
- Greenwich145 care employers
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