How quickly can you cover a shift?

For a service we already work with, same-day cover is often possible if we hear before mid-morning. For a new service, allow 48 hours for the first placement so we can brief the worker properly on your residents and layout.

Do you supply permanent staff as well as temporary?

Yes. Around a third of our placements start as temporary cover and convert to permanent. We would rather you keep someone who already knows your residents than pay us twice, so our temp-to-perm terms are deliberately simple.

What happens if a worker doesn't suit our service?

Tell your coordinator and we will not send them back. If it happens on a first shift, we will not charge for it. We would rather lose one shift's margin than have you lose trust in the whole arrangement.

Can we interview candidates before they work with us?

Of course. Some managers want a ten-minute call, others want a full interview or a paid trial shift. We will arrange whichever fits how you recruit.

Do your carers have their own transport?

Many do, and we record it against every worker along with their travel radius. For domiciliary rounds we filter to drivers with business insurance by default.

Service 01

Care recruitment

Carers who have done the work before, screened for this sector only.

We recruit for adult and children's social care and nothing else. Every applicant goes through the same nine-section onboarding pack, a values-based screening call and a full history check before their name reaches your inbox — so a shortlist from us is a list of people you could actually put on a rota.

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A candidate in a values-based interview with a CareCore recruiter

48hrs: Typical time from brief to first suitable candidate
2: References verified before shortlisting — always
100%: Right to work checked and dated

Who buys this

This service suits you if…

Registered managers covering sickness, vacancies and rota gaps
Providers opening a new service and needing a full team from scratch
Operations leads who are tired of CVs that don't hold up to checks

The problem

What this actually fixes

Written from what providers tell us on the first call, not from a benefits list.

01
Generalist agencies send generalist staff
A temp who has worked warehouses and hospitality is not ready for a double-up hoist transfer or a distressed resident with advanced dementia. We only place people with adult or children's social care experience, or people we have taken through the Care Certificate ourselves.
02
Shortlists that fall apart at the checking stage
Most wasted recruitment time is spent on candidates who cannot evidence right to work, cannot produce two references, or go quiet when a DBS is mentioned. We front-load all of that, so nobody reaches your shortlist unchecked.
03
Nobody answers the phone at 6am
Cover problems happen before the office opens. Our coordinators run an on-call rota so a 5.40am sickness call gets a person, not a voicemail.

Included

What you get, in full

No tiers, no add-on modules. This is the service.

Values-based screening interview

A structured 30-minute call covering scenarios, not just experience — dignity, escalation, safeguarding instincts and how they handle being rushed.

Full nine-section application pack

Personal details, complete employment history with gaps explained, training records, DBS and disclosures, two references, documents, health and adjustments, and a signed declaration.

Identity and right to work verification

Passport or share code checked against the Home Office online service, with the date of the check recorded against the worker.

Placement matching

Matched on postcode and travel radius, shift patterns including sleep-ins and waking nights, specialism, and whether they drive.

A named coordinator

One person who knows your service, your residents and which of our workers you have asked for again.

Complete personnel file on day one

You receive the full pack as a print-ready PDF for your own records before the first shift starts.

Screening

Out of a hundred applicants, fourteen reach your shortlist

Filtering is the product. Anyone can forward a CV — the work is in the eighty-six people who do not get sent to you, and in being able to say exactly why.

Figures are our rolling twelve-month average across adult social care roles. Complex care and nursing run tighter.

Applications received100
All applicants
From adverts, referrals and our own carer network
Pass initial screening46
46%
Care experience, right to work, travel radius
Complete the full pack31
31%
Nine sections including history and disclosures
Clear all checks22
22%
DBS position, two references, training verified
Put forward to you14
14%
Matched on specialism, shifts and location

Roles we fill

From first-time carers through to registered managers. Pay bands quoted on enquiry — they move with the market and with shift pattern.

Care Assistant
Senior Care Assistant
Support Worker
Complex Care Assistant
Live-in Carer
Registered General Nurse (RGN)
Team Leader / Deputy Manager
Registered Manager
Something else? Ask us

“The difference was that they recruited for nights specifically. Previous agencies sent whoever was free. By the third week my seniors were asking for people by name.”

Helen Price — Registered Manager, Meadowbrook Care Home

Unfilled night shifts in the following quarter

Read how we did it — Meadowbrook Care Home

Questions

About care recruitment

What providers ask us most often about this service specifically.

All FAQs

: For a service we already work with, same-day cover is often possible if we hear before mid-morning. For a new service, allow 48 hours for the first placement so we can brief the worker properly on your residents and layout.

The other two services

Workforce compliance

Every check tracked to its expiry date, and chased before it lapses.

Care administration

The back office behind the rota, run by people who know care paperwork.

Ready to talk about care recruitment?

Five minutes on the phone is usually enough for us to tell you whether we can help and what it would cost.

Get in touch