Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
Social Care

  • ASWEB brings “passion and expertise” to APSCo, says Arnold

    Thu, 2 Feb 2012

  • Slimmed-brown Eden Brown back in profit

    Thu, 2 Feb 2012

    Recruiter Eden Brown has recorded profits of £1.6m for the year to 31 March 2011, having registered a loss of £1.22m the previous year.

  • UK & IRELAND Appointments: Bygrave is CFO at HCL

    Thu, 2 Feb 2012

    Health and social care staffing provider Healthcare Locums has appointed Sue Bygrave as chief finance officer (CFO).

  • Contracts/Deals: Broadbean partners with SocialReferral to launch Referral

    Wed, 25 Jan 2012

    Recruitment technology firm Broadbean has finalised an exclusive technology partnership with SocialReferral, launching Broadbean Referral.

  • Appointments: Search Consultancy hires Simcoe and promotes Holden

    Fri, 13 Jan 2012

    UK-wide recruiter Search Consultancy has made two appointments in its medical and legal divisions.

  • New Directions launches new nursing division

    Thu, 12 Jan 2012

    Welsh recruiter New Directions has launched a nursing division to its various existing divisions.Sarah Blackmore, heads the new division in addition to the head of social care role she already occupies, and Melanie Hill has been newly appointed as the registered nurse.

  • REC: Third month of permanent placement decline

    Wed, 11 Jan 2012

    December saw the third consecutive month of decline in permanent placements, reports the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).

  • REC: 12 weeks on from AWR and temp demand remains strong

    Tue, 20 Dec 2011

    Demand for temporary staff has remained stable over the last few months, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook.

  • IT leads the way as Scottish job market shows small growth

    Mon, 19 Dec 2011

    There was an increase in permanent placements in Scotland in November, but at the slowest rate in 14 months, according to the Bank of Scotland’s ’Report on Jobs’.

  • Reputation key concern for social workers

    Wed, 7 Dec 2011

    Negative feedback from current staff is the factor most likely to affect a social workers’ feelings about working for that organisation in the future, according to a report into recruiting social workers.

  • Contracts/Deals: Radian selects Jobtrain e-recruitment

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    Housing, care and support provider Radian Group has chosen Jobtrain Solutions to provide an e-recruitment system, replacing the current paper-based process.Giles Heckstall-Smith, commercial director at Jobtrain, says: “Already working with organisations including Sheffield Homes, Southern Housing and The Crown Estate has given us plenty of experience in this sector.”

  • Replacing strikers with temps? Recruiters will not touch it with a bargepole

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Jonathan Wadsworth, a director of healthcare and social care recruiter Charles Hunter Associates, tells Recruiterthat tomorrow’s strike will have minimal impact on the business.

  • Elderly care abuse the fault of agencies, not workers?

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Abuse and neglect of the elderly by carers, as reported across the national media yesterday, should not be blamed upon individual carers, says Sarah Green, owner of Bunbury Care Agency.

  • Contracts/Deals: Housing deal for Hays

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    Recruitment consultancy Hays is now the sole supplier of temporary workers to social housing provider Sovereign Housing Association.Sovereign works across the South-West, home counties and south coast of the UK, employing over 1,000 staff.Richard Gelder, director of Hays Social Housing, says: “Managing a flexible workforce effectively is essential as the housing sector continues to go through much change.”

  • Reed Index gives good news for most

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

  • Appointments: Knowles joins HCL

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Jackie Knowles has joined health and social care recruiter Healthcare Locums (HCL) as head of clinical governance and compliance.Knowles was previously operations services manager at Geneva Healthcare International, where she spent three years.Knowles holds a diploma in general nursing.

  • Voluntary sector grows

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    The number of people working in the UK voluntary sector has increased by nearly 40% since 2001, and stood at 765,000 in 2010, says research jointly carried out by the Third Sector Research Centre and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

  • Contracts/Deals: SWIIS signs up to Safe

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Social care recruiter SWIIS has signed a deal to install software provider Safe’s Front Office and web portal software.The deal includes Safe’s fully AWR ready Front Office solution, e-time, e-expenses and mobile time capture solution.

  • Ark Home Healthcare to create 500 new jobs

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    Care provider Ark Home Healthcare has acquired part of Anchor Trust and is to create an additional 500 new jobs in the next six months.With the help of private equity partners Ashridge Capital and Core Capital, the specialist domiciliary care company has paid an undisclosed sum for six of Anchor’s home care operations located across the country.The acquisition sees it take over 14 local authority contracts and 460 staff transferred to Ark in accordance with TUPE regulations.

  • Prime Appointments launches social care division

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Commercial, industrial and technical recruiter Prime Appointments is launching a national social care division.The division will recruit permanent and interim social care staff on a management to director level.Meanwhile, Fiona Faircloth has joined the firm in its Sudbury, Suffolk office, as social care manager.

  • Prime Appointments launches social care division

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Multi-sector recruiter Prime Appointments has launched a social care division.The division specialises in sourcing senior professionals within the care sector.Fiona Faircloth has been appointed as a consultant to recruit for the division.

  • Recruitment continues as usual at Southern Cross

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    Despite the loss of its 752 care homes, Southern Cross, the UK’s biggest care home group, says it’s recruitment as usual, while ownership of its homes is transferred to new operators.

  • Skills for Care invites tenders from social care employers

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    Skills for Care is inviting tenders from employers across the social care sector for projects that promote and support adult social care apprenticeships.

  • Turnover rises at Liquid Personnel

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Social work recruiter Liquid Personnel has seen turnover rise.In the year ending April 2010, the firm posted turnover of £9.51m.  Jonathan Coxon, managing director of Liquid Personnel, says: “We’re very pleased with the company’s performance so far. “With conditions in the market remaining challenging, our strong focus on customer service has been essential, allowing us to improve candidate retention, and still attract new candidates.”

  • Appointments: Cardea appoints head of operations

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    Social care recruiter Cardea has appointed Tony Woollett as head of operations.Woollett was previously an associate director of Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT) and national sales manager for Reliance –  both Randstad companies.Meanwhile, the firm also welcomes consultants Leon Morley, Beth Morley, Laura Hart.Morley is a social housing consultant, while Hart is on the qualified social work desk and Morley joins the firm’s nursing team.

  • Workers sought by Priory Group in Northern Ireland

    Mon, 12 Jul 2010

    Care provider Priory Group says it is seeking “professional, caring and enthusiastic” workers to fill up to 1,000 new jobs.

  • HCL welcomes BMA call on overseas doctors

    Wed, 30 Jun 2010

    Health and social care specialist HCL has welcomed the British Medical Association’s calls for a review of the processes which overseas doctors must undergo before they can work in the NHS.

  • Apex reveals expansion plans

    Wed, 30 Jun 2010

    Apex Health and Social Care has announced its expansion creating 62 new jobs in Preston since reopening last year.

  • Government urged to offer more funding to improve care worker skills

    Mon, 24 May 2010

    A recruiter has urged the coalition government to provide further funding for skills development of care workers.

  • Appointments: Personnel & Care Bank

    Tue, 16 Mar 2010

    Social care and child care recruiter Personnel & Care Bank has appointed Tracey Shapley as business development manager for the London area.Shapley most recently worked in business development and operations at Interaction and before that with Blue Arrow.

  • Social care jobseekers on increase

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    The social care sector is facing a huge increase in jobseekers registering an interest in working in the sector, according to new figures from the UK Homecare Association (UKHCA).

  • Poll claims new social workers lack key skills

    Tue, 23 Feb 2010

    The social care sector lacks newly qualified social workers with the ability to adequately risk assess, according to a poll from the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

  • PCB expands operations

    Fri, 12 Feb 2010

    Home care specialist recruiter Personnel & Care Bank (PCB) has expanded its operations as a result of a two-year sole agency contract with the East Thames Group.

  • HCL Australian recruitment day for social care workers

    Mon, 1 Feb 2010

    Nearly 100 social care workers interested in working in Australia attended an event run by Healthcare Locums (HCL) in London last night.

  • Appointments at Green Care Management

    Thu, 28 Jan 2010

    Social Care recruiter Green Care Management has appointed Rebecca Neilson and Julie Monie as consultants.Neilson will focus on the East Midlands, while Monie will be working with the Yorkshire area.

  • Care organisations spending less on temporary workers

    Tue, 19 Jan 2010

    Care organisations, working with management consultancies, have cut spending on agency workers, according to figures released by procurer of temporary labour, de Poel.

  • HCL predicts increased social work demand

    Thu, 3 Dec 2009

    Recommendations made by the government’s Social Work Task Force for reforming social care in the UK will create increased demand for locum and permanent placement social workers as local government seeks to implement the reforms, according to healthcare recruiter HCL.

  • Reed creates 400 jobs to cope with recovery

    Tue, 1 Dec 2009

    Specialist recruitment firm Reed is creating 400 new jobs to help meet an upturn in demand as employers look to expand their workforces to take advantage of improving market conditions.

  • Queen’s Speech: Pulse welcomes Social Care Bill

    Thu, 19 Nov 2009

    The Social Care Bill announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech has been welcomed by healthcare recruiter Pulse.

  • Social workers demand chief

    Thu, 15 Oct 2009

    Social workers, in line with recent recommendations, are calling for better representation of the profession through the creation of a government-appointed chief social worker and the creation of a national college of social work, according to a poll by the Association of Social Work Employment Businesses (ASWEB).

  • Postal strike to delay CRB checks

    Tue, 13 Oct 2009

    A national postal strike will delay placements due to a slowdown in the processing of Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, according to health and social care recruiters.

  • Regulating the recruitment process

    14-October 2009

    A new vetting and barring scheme, due to be rolled out across the UK over the next four years, aims to safeguard the protection of the most vulnerable in society. Colin Cottell looks at the implications for hiring

  • Personnel & Care Bank appoints new managing director

    Thu, 27 Aug 2009

    Social care and child care specialist Personnel & Care Bank (PCB) has appointed Janine Desmond as managing director.  Desmond joined PCB in 1994 as a consultant and succeeds Rosalind Payne, who started the company in 1986, now takes over as chair from Dave Ainscow who recently retired.

  • Medicare First moves

    Wed, 26 Aug 2009

    Social work and allied health recruiter Medicare First has moved to new offices in London Bridge to cater for future expansion.

  • Initiative creates social support worker opportunities

    Thu, 23 Jul 2009

    As unemployment rises, government plans to help school leavers has led to increased demand for support workers, according to a report from Hays Social Housing.

  • REC’s Cullimore welcomes government’s social care plans

    Wed, 15 Jul 2009

    The government is proposing that a certain level of social care would be provided free to everyone, while accommodation costs are deferred.

  • ASWEB in talks about raising standards

    08-July 2009

    The Association of Social Work Employment Businesses (ASWEB) has been in discussions with Tim Loughton, the shadow minister for children, schools and families.

  • BRC appoints managing director

    Mon, 6 Jul 2009

    Social care recruiter BRC has appointed Mark Fearon as managing director.

  • Randstad rebrands with BBT and Hill McGlynn merger

    Fri, 19 Jun 2009

    Recruitment giant Randstad is to merge technical and professional staffing firms Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT) and Hill McGlynn as part of a major rebranding strategy.

  • ICO prosecutes Metro3 Staffing

    Fri, 22 May 2009

     Public sector and social care recruiter Metro3 Staffing has successfully been prosecuted for offences under the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

  • John Faraguna: Hays’ new MD, global health and social care division

    Fri, 15 May 2009

    John Faraguna is the new managing director of Hays’ global health and social care division.

  • £58m boost to social worker recruitment

    Thu, 7 May 2009

    The government is to put an extra £58m into the recruitment and retention of social workers, following the death of Baby P.

  • Care Appointments partners 1Job

    Thu, 12 Feb 2009

    Social work job board Care Appointments has entered into an agreement with job search engine 1Job to duplicate all jobs posted on careappointments.co.uk to 1job.co.uk.

  • Exclusive: ASWEB to become REC sector group for social work

    Thu, 5 Feb 2009

    The Association of Social Work Employment Busineses (ASWEB) is set to become the official REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) sector group for social work within the next few weeks.

  • Matrix defends rate cut for its agencies

    04-Feb-2009

    Young: tremendous response

  • Matrix meeting ‘positive’ says ASWEB

    Thu, 22 Jan 2009

    A meeting of the Association of Social Work Employment Businesses (ASWEB) and Matrix Supply Chain Management to discuss standards in social care recruitment was positive, says ASWEB.

  • Contractors optimistic despite economic gloom

    Thu, 22 Jan 2009

    Contractors remain confident and  optimistic about the future despite the economic gloom, according to a new survey.

  • Social care: ASWEB meeting Matrix to discuss standards

    Tue, 13 Jan 2009

    The Association of Social Work Employment Businesses (ASWEB) is due to meet vendor managed services provider (VMSP)  Matrix Supply Chain Management this week to discuss raising standards in social work recruitment.

  • Hays becomes an agile giant in Cook's vision

    14-Jan-2009

  • Home Office meeting fails to resolve care worker shortage, says Cullimore

    Mon, 22 Dec 2008

    A meeting of the Home Offices’s Migration Advisory Committee to discuss the shortage of care workers failed to resolve the problems caused by the government’s new points- based immigration system.

  • ASWEB members to be audited in the New Year

    Mon, 22 Dec 2008

    Members of the ASWEB (the Association of  Social Work Employment Businesses) will be formally audited from the beginning of 2009 in an attempt to raise standards in social work recruitment.

  • Social care: Baby P scandal fuels compliance drive, says Medicare First

    Fri, 19 Dec 2008

    In the wake of the Baby P scandal in the London Borough of Haringey, there has been “a big drive” by London boroughs to ensure that agencies are compliant when supplying social workers, according to the managing director of Medicare First.

  • ASWEB welcomes government plans for social work taskforce

    Fri, 12 Dec 2008

    The chairman of the Association of Social Work Employment Businesses (ASWEB) has welcomed the government’s plans to set up a taskforce to improve the quality and status of social workers in the wake of the Baby P scandal in the London Borough of Haringey.

  • Government red tape worse not better, says recruiter

    Fri, 12 Dec 2008

    The division manager of social care recruiter People Unlimited has refuted claims by the government that it is on track to cut red tape by 25% by 2010, saving businesses £3.4bn a year.