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Recruiting in Sefton

Finding staff for Sefton's care homes and coastal rounds

Sefton is a long, thin borough, and its care homes are bunched in Southport while many working age adults live further south towards Bootle and Liverpool. A carer in Litherland may be a train ride from a Southport home, while one in Ormskirk, just over the boundary in West Lancashire, may be closer by road.

The local pool is getting tighter. Between the last two censuses the number of Sefton residents aged 35 to 49 fell by around 6,000, while the median age rose to 46. That makes new entrants important, and Hugh Baird College in Bootle and Southport College both train health and social care students. On Carer Badge a Southport home can tell at a glance whether a candidate lives on the Merseyrail line or would be driving in from Ormskirk.

With so many residential and nursing homes in a small coastal strip, staff can and do move between them, so reliable rotas and fair treatment count for a lot. Nursing homes also compete for nurses with Southport Hospital and the Liverpool trusts.

82% of the inspected care employers in Sefton are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 84% across the North West and below England as a whole (85%).