The problem with the care industry is that there are too many places to advertise jobs and no fixed method for recruiting staff.

Careworx is a website for all care jobs and nurse jobs which sets out to create a single centre for job seekers to find every available care vacancy in the market and makes itself available to groups of all sizes by charging very low fees for unlimited access.

We feel that if everyone puts in just a little then it pays for the overall cost and we can spend our time proactively guiding job seekers to your vacancies.

Our team are former recruiters in the sector and we compete at the top of Google for all of our jobs and over 100 industry keyword search terms, so we have a lot more to offer than a typical job board service.

Our database is over 70,000 strong, all industry relevant and we protect peoples details online so they only get contacted about the jobs they express interest in.

I urge all care providers and job advertisers to get on board and help us keep the cost down.  Take a look and get in touch.

It’s a never ending battle for our advertisers to find the steady stream of Registered Nurses required for their many nurse jobs.  We’re hitting our rankings hard and many of our jobs sit at the top of Google so our stats are improving daily but it’s never enough.  Our entire movement is to gain all Nurse Jobs, Registered Nurse Jobs, RGN Jobs, RMN Jobs, RNLD Jobs, Senior Nurse Jobs and Nurse Manager Jobs in the market place to give nurses a single place to find and compare all opportunities available.

Nurse Jobs and Registered Nurse Jobs Advertisers

We’re calling all Nurse Jobs and Registered Nurse Jobs advertisers to get your jobs on our website.  Ultimately it benefits all of us and we can use our proactive team to guide the most relevant nurses to each vacancy and not only help you make placements but help our Nurse Jobs and Registered Nurse Jobs seekers to find the most suitable jobs for them.

The most frustrating thing for us at present is having a huge database of nurses with nowhere to send them, plus we still have lots of locations in the UK where we need job to increase our top ranking presence.

Help us to help you and contact us through our main Care Home Jobs website to get on board and see how we can help.

In addition you can view and apply for our current Nurse Jobs and Registered Nurse Jobs from advertisers and employers across the UK by visiting www.careworx.co.uk

Thanks in advance and we look forward to working with you all.

Having just watched BBC1′s ‘Undercover Care – The Abuse Exposed’ I can tell you from my own experience that these events are all too common throughout our care settings on various scales. When I first began to work in the field of social care, it was by witnessing and hearing of incidents such as this that inspired me to want to make improvements wherever I could and in my opinion, it all appears to come back to the same thing. An undervalued care system!

Until we recognise the importance of care home jobs and and raise the calibre of a ‘carer’ this problem will only worsen. Care homes without the correct leadership quickly become self contained worlds of degradation lead by the ignorant and cut off from the rest of the world around them. As with the example shown in the documentary, these poorly run domains can quickly become centres of abuse and a way of life for people who are not in a position to know any better. Castlebeck, the group in question, are unfortunate to be named in this programme for their Winterbourne service, but it really could have been any one of many organisations and we have to wonder how many Winterbourne’s are out there? And where does the buck stop?

If a care service does end up becoming this kind of domain and everybody working at the home is molded to the same careless mindset, how can we possibly police such treatment without having the luxury of undercover cameras in every home? We simply can’t!

The programme, as with any documentary of this kind, challenges the CQC and company Directors for not following up on reports and allegations made, but also in their defense clearly shows that the entire staff team knew exactly what they were doing when it came to justifying their actions on paper and submitting reports to cover themselves from the likes of typical CQC and head office inspections. This tells us that the staff were evidently aware of what they ‘should’ be doing and had equally been ‘trained’ correctly, but simply didn’t make the connection to actually ‘care’ for the residents in the way that they deserved, even though they were being paid to do so.

It seems to me to be a question of morality and a terrible trait of human nature that like many, I will never understand. I have to openly admit that I would struggle to undertake a standard care role myself, especially for the pittance of a salary being offered for the often challenging work, however can also safely say that I wouldn’t treat my worst enemy in such a way and that nobody is forcing these people to work within social care over other industries.

I’m sure that the documentary, like many similar before it, will spark shock reactions and talk of disgust from the masses for a short time until it, like the many before it, is all too quickly forgotten until the next ‘problem with care’ programme is aired to once again bring these common issues to public attention. Again I ask, what can be done? How can we inspire carers to ‘want’ to care for people in the way that they deserve? And if not, how can we at least prevent or deter these types of incidents from occurring.

The only obvious solution is to have cameras fitted in every room of every care service which can be monitored either full time or at random, though as simplistic as this sounds, the reality of doing so would not only breach human rights laws of some manner, but would still require human interaction and therefore carry the same risk of abuse. How very sad…

Comments please.

IMPORTANT NOTE

When considering this article and the documentary, please also take the chance to remind yourselves of the many care teams and services that do an amazing job of caring for those in need, every minute of every day. By helping others to enjoy their own lives to the fullest, these people are truly inspirational and programmes such as this show the true value of good care provision.

With the news of care provider Southern Cross facing ‘financial chaos’ should we all be jumping on the bandwagon to point from a distance and slam the group by reporting service user fears for their future, the thousands of pending job losses and just about anything else to further depreciate their current share value any further, or would it be better to get behind them and consider this an early warning to us all regarding the true state of our social care system in the UK.

I’ve been reading countless articles which all seem to state that this ‘sudden crisis’ has sparked urgent questions about the future of care…  Well where on earth have you been?  An event of this scale has been on the cards for years and when you read between the lines, it comes as no surprise that this is a direct consequence of public spending cuts, reduced fees to private care providers and the rising costs of near enough everything required to operate properly.  Let’s face it, we’re all feeling the ‘pinch’ in one way or another and most of us can notice the difference when running our average family dwelling, so just imagine the impact of these rises across 700+ fully operational 24/7 care and nursing homes!

I’m all for the government having to do what it can to find our way out of debt, but if they don’t begin to pay attention to some of the country’s ‘essential’ sectors, then in the end there will be very little to save at all!

It’s not like Southern Cross haven’t been completely up front about their circumstance either and have actually entered into ‘talks’ with the government for months, but is anybody really listening anymore, or are they all just hoping that the situation sorts itself out while they’re ‘out to lunch’?

So is now the time for us to start paying attention?  Should we begin to take action rather than ignoring the issue until it affects us directly as individuals?  With experts constantly warning of the ‘crippling’ cost of care to the UK economy maybe we should all be giving our futures more consideration before it’s too late…

In summary, to take a quote from Dr Ros Altmann, Director General of Saga  “There are only so many ways that we can say ‘there is no money for care.’  Savers aren’t saving for it, families aren’t planning for it, local authorities have next to no budget for it, and the government seems blind to it.”

Are you concerned? Share your thoughts and possible solutions please.

With nurse jobs set to rise more rapidly than the average nurse jobs growth throughout 2012, it becomes an increasing concern that our healthcare system will quickly fail to cope with demand, but we have to ask why the shortage?

In 2003 the BBC reported the ‘NHS “race against time” to replace the 50,000 nurses who will retire over the next five years’ and here in 2011 there are still reports of shortages of up to 14,000, not forgetting the growing requirements throughout the private health, community and nursing home sectors. This coupled with the imminent retirement of the ‘baby boomer’ generation and fears that many of those will require care in their own right not only leaves more nurse jobs vacant throughout the country but adds huge concern to an already straining system.

As former recruiters in the care and nursing sector it has become increasingly apparent that despite the abundance of available vacancies and nursing needs of near enough every UK care service in existence, it appears to get more and more difficult to actually fill the gaps.  Why, you ask? Not because there aren’t thousands of nurse jobs seekers out there applying for jobs, but simply because of this ‘strain’ on the system causing the ever increasing need to find the perfect nurse!

The ‘perfect nurse’ puzzle

To explain my humble opinion, and it is only my opinion, as advertisers and previous recruiters we receive applications from qualified nurses with UK NMC PIN numbers for nearly all of the nurse jobs we post, but because they don’t fit the ‘perfect nurse’ mold for the employer in one way or another, the candidates are quickly rejected. Though there are countless potential reasons for this I wanted to put a few significant difficulties out there that we encountered to see if anyone agrees, or has anything to add…

Work permits

Although we’d all like to believe in this day and age that this wouldn’t be a factor, it clearly is!  For the time it takes to obtain a valid work permit for a foreign nurse to actually start work, many organisations and managers would understandably ‘prefer’ to hold out for applicants who don’t require a permit at all. Considering also the expense and administration involved in overseeing the process through to the finish, it is in no way a surprise that care providers try to avoid work permits wherever possible.

I can only speak from our own perspective, of course, and am willing to broadcast that we personally found ourselves losing huge sums of money in language tests and work permit applications to see them fail for even the smallest of details.  Even, as just one example, for a nurse with years of UK experience whose application for indefinite leave to remain was failed due to a required English language test certificate being submitted in error as a photocopy and was therefore considered as ‘fraudulent.’  Having arranged and paid for them ourselves we knew of the tests’ authenticity and the original document could have been produced in a short time, plus this information could have been verified with the official test centre.  Rather than putting in every effort to ‘approve’ the application to help our struggling and short staffed health system after literally months of waiting, the powers-that-be point blank rejected the permit!  The impact of this decision not only caused the employer to rescind their offer due to cost and the unknown timescale of an already overdue start date, but the nurse in question was forced to return back to their home country!?

With events now being held in this country to encourage UK trained nurses to work in Australia and the Minister of Immigration granting ‘priority processing’ of UK nurse visa applications to meet their growing demand, surely we need to do something drastic to improve this process here in the UK.

Experience

We used to get literally hundreds of newly qualified nurses asking for our help in finding work every year and despite fielding them out to organisations and managers in droves, the return on effort is minimal. In the end it’s heartbreaking getting involved and having to tell each one that despite their fresh drive and enthusiasm to work, there are just no takers. Obviously a care provider may be a little averse to paying an agency or recruiter to employ a newly qualified nurse; however we began to pitch them out for ‘no fee’ and would still get very little response.

The evident problem is that everybody needs relevantly trained and ‘experienced’ nurses who can ‘hit the ground running’ immediately and share the workload. Very few care services, unless they specifically run nurse adaptation or training programmes, are in the position to take the time and resources needed to develop staff to the required level, especially those that are already understaffed.  Even nurses from other EU countries get ‘knocked back’ quickly if they don’t have previous UK experience as despite being clinically capable, they don’t understand our systems of work and regulations so struggle to gain the opportunity to learn.

Another good nurse jobs related read.

What’s the answer?

Who knows?  It appears to be a vicious circle that will certainly be difficult to break, but in times where we can ill afford to be fussy there seems to be a lot of missed opportunities and new systems need to be put into place quickly to recognise these issues.

I’m interested to gain your opinions and any similar stories to see if we’re alone in this please.

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