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Recruiting in Blackpool

Staffing care homes on the Fylde coast

With so many care homes in a small town, Blackpool employers are drawing on the same pool of carers, and staff can move between homes a few streets apart with little effort. Keeping good staff matters as much as finding new ones. The wider labour market reaches up the coast to Cleveleys and Fleetwood, inland to Poulton and across to Lytham St Annes, all in Lancashire County rather than the borough, so a shortlist built only from Blackpool postcodes will miss many people.

New entrants are a real source of staff here. Blackpool and The Fylde College's Prepare to Care programme ends with guaranteed interviews, and many of the people it trains will be new to the sector. Nurse recruitment is tougher, as Blackpool Victoria Hospital is the main acute employer on the coast. Carer Badge profiles set out each person's training and any nursing registration, so you can judge who to call first.

83% of the inspected care employers in Blackpool are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 84% across the North West and in line with England as a whole (85%).