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Recruiting in Somerset

Recruiting across a county where one in four people is over 65

Somerset's care employers are concentrated in Taunton, but the people they support live across the Levels, the Quantocks, the Mendips and the West Somerset coast. Home care in the countryside needs drivers who live out in those places, and care homes in the smaller towns often depend on staff from a handful of nearby villages. Competition also comes from the county's one NHS trust, which runs two main hospitals and many community hospitals.

Search a radius around your service and you can compare carers by postcode district, own car, travel limit and availability. That means a Wells nursing home can look for people already living around Shepton Mallet, or a Bridgwater agency can find carers in the coastal villages towards Burnham. Nurses' NMC registration is checked by us too.

Somerset also has an unusually large self-employed care workforce through its micro-provider scheme, and some of those carers may want occasional employed hours alongside their own clients.

91% of the inspected care employers in Somerset are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 90% across the South West and above England as a whole (85%).