We transform how care providers attract, recruit and retain their staff
We’re the UK’s leading experts in helping care providers grow their business
Our services include Recruitment Audit, Processes & Proceedures, Indeed Management and Retention Advice. As well as Membership options designed to maximise your recruitment budget.
Our expertise delivers success for care providers
£3m
Savings in agency spend for care providers
20%
Greater recruitment over intended hiring goals
81%
Average attendance rate for interviews
80%
Of the people interviewed are successfully hired
Flexible membership options, proven to get results
Indeed Management Essentials
✓ Post and manage all your jobs on Indeed
✓ Manage your monthly budget and campaigns
✓ Unlimited rewrites of all job adverts
✓ Unlimited email advice and guidance
✓ Professional phone screen & interview templates
✓ Monthly training videos for RMs & Internal Recruiters
Indeed Management + Admin Relief
Designed for care providers whose internal teams are overwhelmed by application volume. We become your extended recruitment team — handling the admin so your people can focus on delivering exceptional care
We manage all your Indeed applications
No more sorting through endless CVs. Every candidate reviewed, assessed, and categorised for
Candidate screening & categorisation
Sorted into 'suitable', 'maybe', and 'unsuitable' — proven to save teams 8-20 hrs of admin per week.
We message candidates on your behalf
Suitable candidates get a prompt 'Thank You'; unsuitable ones receive a professional decline — protecting your reputation.
Expert budget management
We've managed Indeed budgets for 500+ care companies. Your monthly spend is in safe, experienced hands.
Full Recruitment Partnership
Let us arrange and manage the face to face interviews on your behalf, a great option if you…
Don’t have a dedicated recruiter
Need cover for staff absence
Refocus your internal team
Require a custom approach
Want to remove agency staff
Are worried about having too many sponsored staff
Want to create better continuity of care for your clients
Our most comprehensive service. Everything in Options 1 & 2 — plus we arrange face-to-face interviews on your behalf, provide structured templates at every stage, and act as your dedicated recruitment partner.
Working with well known care organisations
We helped Wellgate completely remove all agency spend from their supported living sites
“In the 4 months of The Care Social Network assisting us, we were able to 10x the amount of applications we received via Indeed and we have now completely removed all agency spend”
Simon Hill, Chairman
HMNP Health & Wellgate Support
“In the first 3 months of collaboration with The Care Social Network, we have offered 32 candidates a Care Professional role over three Home Instead offices”
Rebecca Bradley, Group Operations Manager
Home Instead
Find out how we add value to care businesses like yours
We’ve worked with some of the UK’s leading home care providers, supported living companies, and residential & nursing homes. Saving them over £3 million in agency spend.
Nicola Brookes, Managing Director
Visiting Angels Sheffield
We helped Visiting Angels Sheffield grow
175% increase in actual hires
69.57% increase in interviews arranged
88.24% increase in candidates offered a role
44% increase in candidates been offered a role to actually starting on rota
£572.33 decrease in cost per hire. Average cost per hire decreased from £663.23 to £90.90.
“If you need an exceptional partner in social care recruitment, Stephen is the one to trust.”
“Stephen orchestrated an impressive 60 interviews, with an outstanding 54 attendees — the highest attendance rate we’ve ever witnessed.”
Ellis Jenkins, Managing Director
Expanding Horizons
“The process was quick, straightforward and incredibly well organised. Within just a few days we received 112 applications and had to pause the advert. With the team’s filtering we shortlisted 26 strong candidates, interviewed 12, and chose one exceptional person.”
Peter Catlow, Owner,
Home Instead East Lancashire
“We are now going to ask The Care Social Network to look after all of our recruitment.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Stephen and the team to any business looking for an efficient, cost-effective and highly successful recruitment solution.”.
How we work
Our Process
Having a robust recruitment process and strong online presence can be challenging and time consuming. At The Care Social Network we work alongside your internal team as advisors, analysing your current processes and introducing our proven methods of hiring and retaining care staff.
01 : Discovery
30 minute discovery call - let us know what your care recruitment and retention challenges are so we can make suggestions.
02 : Audit
We conduct a demographic audit for the areas you need to hire care staff so you can look at what actions are needed to be competitive.
03 : Strategy
We conduct an audit on your advertising spend and help you decide how to spend your budgets on what job boards or media platforms.
Trusted by 200+ care providers and businesses
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"In the 4 months of The Care Social Network assisting us, we were able to 10x the amount of applications we received via Indeed and we have now completely removed all agency spend."
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"In just three months, he orchestrated an impressive 60 interviews, with an outstanding 54 attendees—the highest attendance rate we've ever witnessed. What's even more commendable is that 21 of those interviews resulted in job offers with 16 starting on rota."
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"I was impressed by the personalised approach taken by The Care Social Network in understanding our company's unique needs and requirements. Your team demonstrated a profound understanding of the healthcare industry."
Phil Gould, Chief Operating Office
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"We have seen a significant increase in hires with results such as 347,131 more impressions on our Indeed job adverts, 90,179 more clicks on our job adverts which ultimately lead to an impressive increase of 11.59% more people applying to work with us."
Nizam Bata, Founder & CEO
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"Stephen and his team have been open, honest, friendly and readily available. He is passionate about wanting to help care businesses with their recruitment and has the knowledge and experience to back it up. It's great to work with him."
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"Stephen's online activity provided me with a level of assurance that he knew what he was talking about. The Care Social Network provided a full recruitment audit for us which has led to huge growth."
Joseph Hughes, Director of Quality
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"We have a great working relationship, The Care Social Network has been able to offer expert knowledge and assisted in us getting a fantastic ROI for our job board budget."
Louise Patterson, Recruitment & Compliance Officer
Radfield Homecare
