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Recruiting in Surrey

Recruiting care staff in a county with long commutes and dear housing

Surrey's care employers face a familiar mismatch: the towns and villages where older people live are not always places carers can easily afford to live, and London's wages sit a short train ride away. Looking only inside the county boundary can leave rotas thin. The best recruits for a service in Cobham or Reigate may well live in Crawley, Aldershot or south London, so it pays to think about where carers can realistically come from, not just where your clients are.

That makes it worth casting a deliberately wide net, then checking who can actually reach you. Carer Badge shows you carers in neighbouring Sussex, Hampshire and the London boroughs as well as Surrey, with whether they drive, which matters for rounds in the Surrey Hills.

Nurses are the tightest market. With nursing homes making up such a big share of the county's care employers and several hospital trusts recruiting at the same time, homes that can offer nurses a short journey from home have a real advantage.

88% of the inspected care employers in Surrey are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 84% across the South East and above England as a whole (85%).