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Who you’re recruiting against
93 care employers recruit in Wokingham
Most care employers in Wokingham are home care agencies (53%), followed by care homes (37%) and nursing homes (11%). Carers here can choose between them. A profile search lets you reach people before they apply anywhere else.
Registered services from the Care Quality Commission register, updated regularly. A service registered for both home care and residential care is counted in each.
Recruiting in Wokingham
Staffing care in Wokingham when the borough keeps expanding
Wokingham's care workforce does not stop at the borough line. Earley and Woodley run straight into Reading, Crowthorne is shared with Bracknell Forest, and Hampshire is only a few miles south of Finchampstead, so many candidates for a Wokingham service will live in a neighbouring council area. With the population growing quickly and big new housing sites such as the former Arborfield Garrison filling up, home care demand keeps spreading into newer neighbourhoods.
That makes a carer's driving and travel range as important as their experience. For the borough's nursing homes there is competition for registered nurses from Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Wokingham Hospital and Broadmoor, so it pays to reach nurses who live close by. Bracknell and Wokingham College also trains new entrants with local NHS placements.
A Carer Badge search can take in someone in east Reading or Sandhurst who is willing to come to you, not just people with a Wokingham postcode.
89% of the inspected care employers in Wokingham are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, above the 84% across the South East and above England as a whole (85%).
Who else is recruiting near you
Care employers around Wokingham
Every dot is a CQC-registered care service. We don’t name them, and locations are approximate.
- Home care agencies
- Care homes
- Nursing homes
Questions about recruiting in Wokingham
Our home care runs cover Arborfield and Shinfield. How do we find carers who drive?
Carer profiles say whether the carer drives, so you can concentrate on drivers living within a realistic distance of those southern villages. That avoids interviewing people who could not reach the calls.
Will carers who live in Reading show up for a service in Earley or Woodley?
Yes, if they are inside the distance you set and willing to travel that far. Council boundaries do not filter the results, which matters here because Earley and Woodley sit right beside Reading.
Sources for this page
- Wokingham Borough Council: direct payments
- Wokingham Borough Council: employing a carer or personal assistant
- ONS: How life has changed in Wokingham, Census 2021 (population growth, third largest rise in South East)
- Wikipedia: Borough of Wokingham (towns and villages, Crowthorne shared with Bracknell Forest, strategic development locations)
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: our locations (Royal Berkshire Hospital, central Reading)
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Wokingham Hospital
- West London NHS Trust: Broadmoor Hospital
- Wikipedia: Crowthorne (Broadmoor Hospital location)
- NHS Thames Valley ICB: about us
- Bracknell and Wokingham College: Health and Social Care pathway
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