Find carers and nurses in County Durham

Recruiting in County Durham

Hiring in a county of small towns and long Dales roads

No single town dominates recruitment in County Durham. Employers sit in Durham, Bishop Auckland, Consett, Seaham and a run of other former mining towns, and carers tend to want work close to the town they already live in. Someone in Stanley is unlikely to want a daily drive to Newton Aycliffe, even though both are in the same county. Rural rounds in Weardale and Teesdale are harder again, and the CQC found a shortage of carers who drive was affecting provision in rural areas.

Rather than trawling the whole county, set a radius around your service; each result lists the carer's postcode district, the distance they will cover and whether they run a car. That makes it easier to find the few drivers who live near a Dales round, or a carer already living in the town where your care home is.

Nursing homes are a large part of the local market, and you can tell before making contact which nurses have had their registration confirmed with the NMC.

94% of the inspected care employers in County Durham are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 93% across the North East and above England as a whole (85%).