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Recruiting in Slough

Staffing home care in a young, crowded borough

Almost every care employer in Slough is a home care service, so you are all fishing in the same pond for carers who can cover calls across a compact, built up town. Distances are short, which helps carers without cars, but competition is intense, and Wexham Park Hospital and the big employers around Slough Trading Estate and Heathrow draw on the same workforce.

Matching language and culture is often what makes a package work here. With such a diverse population, a carer who shares a client's first language can be the difference between care someone welcomes and care they merely put up with, and on Carer Badge you can look for exactly that among carers living in and around the town.

Recruiting from just beyond the borough widens the pool. Windsor, Burnham, Iver and parts of west London are all close, and some carers there will happily work a Slough round. Nursing roles are few inside the borough, so homes with nursing usually recruit against Wexham Park for the same nurses.

65% of the inspected care employers in Slough are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 84% across the South East and below England as a whole (85%).