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Who you’re recruiting against
163 care employers recruit in Stoke-on-Trent
The biggest group of care employers in Stoke-on-Trent is home care agencies (50%), followed by care homes (37%) and nursing homes (13%). 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 Stoke-on-Trent
Hiring carers in Stoke-on-Trent and the towns around it
The city boundary is easy to cross without noticing. Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove and Biddulph run straight on from the Potteries but sit in Staffordshire, and the county council has itself pointed to supply challenges in those areas. For a Stoke employer that means the carer best placed to cover a Tunstall or Burslem round might live in Kidsgrove, and a search tied to the city boundary would miss them.
Carer Badge searches by distance from your own postcode, so those people appear if they are within range. Profiles show postcode district, travel distance, driving and availability, which helps when you are building rounds along a city that stretches several miles from north to south. Nursing homes can also see which registered nurses have had their NMC registration checked, useful when Royal Stoke and County Hospital in Stafford are recruiting from the same pool of nurses. A younger local population than the national average means you may meet plenty of carers early in their careers, and profiles that list training completed so far help you judge who is ready for which role.
78% of the inspected care employers in Stoke-on-Trent are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, close to the 79% across the West Midlands and below England as a whole (85%).
Who else is recruiting near you
Care employers around Stoke-on-Trent
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 Stoke-on-Trent
Will carers in Newcastle-under-Lyme or Kidsgrove show up when I search from Stoke?
Yes, if they fall within your chosen distance. Search uses miles from your postcode rather than council area, so the towns that run on from the Potteries are included.
Can I find carers who don't drive but live close to my service?
Yes. Profiles show each carer's postcode district and whether they drive, so in a compact city with a decent bus network you can include non drivers who live nearby and still cover a tight round.
Sources for this page
- Wikipedia: Stoke-on-Trent (six towns federated 1910, Hanley as city centre, First Potteries, Stoke and Longton stations)
- ONS: How life has changed in Stoke-on-Trent, Census 2021 (median age 38 vs 40)
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council: paying for support (direct payments, choose and hire your own personal assistants)
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council: Shared Lives Stoke
- Staffordshire County Council: market sustainability plan (supply challenges in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove and Biddulph)
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (Royal Stoke, Staffordshire Children's Hospital)
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: about us
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
- Stoke on Trent College: childcare, health and social care courses (Cauldon campus)
- NSCG: Care, Education, Nursing and Midwifery courses
The search
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