Find carers and nurses in Medway

Recruiting in Medway

Finding care staff in the Medway towns and just beyond

Medway's employers are packed into a small area, which cuts both ways. Carers do not have far to travel, but you are recruiting from the same streets as every other service in Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, and as Medway Maritime Hospital. Widening the net a few miles helps: Maidstone, Sittingbourne and Gravesend are all within reach, and people living there may be happy to work a Medway round.

That is where looking a little further pays off. A Carer Badge search from a Chatham office reaches carers in the Kent towns next door as easily as those in Strood, and if you cover the Hoo Peninsula, narrowing it to drivers saves a lot of wasted interviews.

Medway also has a younger population than England as a whole, so services supporting working age adults recruit here as well as older people's care, and some candidates will be looking for hours that fit around study or young families. Nursing homes are a small part of the local market and compete with the hospital in Gillingham for nurses.

64% of the inspected care employers in Medway are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 84% across the South East and below England as a whole (85%).