A fresh approach to social work recruitment
There’s a reason why more than one in three social workers are registered with Sanctuary Social Care and over 400 local authorities and NHS Trusts entrust us to meet their resourcing needs. It’s simple. We place people at the heart of everything we do. Our social work consultants have an exceptional understanding of the complex and sensitive nature of social work. When it comes to finding you the right candidates, nobody is better placed to help.
Enhance visibility
Raise your visibility as an employer of choice in the social care sector. We’ve already invested in intelligent talent management technology, so you don’t have to.
Keep control
Benefit from a tailored hiring strategy, unrivalled candidate matching, regular progress reporting and a wrap-around safe recruitment model. We're just a phone call away!
Hire well
Think ahead. Smart social care recruitment begins here. Resolve your short-term resourcing issues, whilst building a more resilient long-term workforce.
Explore your recruitment options
At Sanctuary Social Care, we believe there's a sweet spot in social care recruitment; a place where social work resourcing solutions not only meet, but often exceed, your expectations as a social work employer.
We match high calibre practitioners, with the rights skills, experience and attitude, to your individual needs. Whether you need a temporary team of highly qualified motivated locum social workers or a robust permanent staffing solution, we know how to make it happen and have the credentials to prove it.
Client services
Find out more about our range of specialist client services.
Submit Social Work Job
Do you have a role or several vacancies you need to fill? And fast? Simply upload a few details using the form below and a specialist consultant will be in touch to discuss your recruitment needs.
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Social Care Compliance Service
Placing highly qualified experienced candidates doesn’t happen by chance. It only occurs in an environment that is process driven and highly regulated. As one of the largest health and social care recruiters in the UK, we continue to lead the way in compliance. We are renowned for our thorough multi-point candidate checking process and always ensure we meet every candidate face-to-face. We have one of the most robust compliance checks in the industry. Therefore, you know each candidate placed is safe, suitably experienced and qualified. Let us take the pressure off Is compliance a bottle-neck, with other departments vying for attention? Is it a headache getting a team of social workers up-and-running? We take this headache away for you. We can handle your entire compliance process, even for candidates you’ve sourced. How does it work? Once we are provided with information about a candidate, our stringent checking process starts. This includes checking: Full employment history Personal references of employment and performance history Training and qualifications Professional registration Identity and original identity documents in person (face to face) Immigration status/Right to Work in the UK Disclosure and Barring Service and overseas police checks for new entrants Occupational health screening for role/occupational health review for all clinical staff Up-to-date statutory and role relevant training Our approach ensures your compliance procedures adhere to the UK legislative requirements, NHS Employer Standards, Crown Commercial Services (CCS), Collaborative Procurement Programme (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe (HTE) framework conditions, as well as best industry practice. It means you can safely mobilise entire teams, without delay. Contact us today to find out how you could benefit from outsourcing your compliance services.
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Social Care Staffing Solutions
There’s a reason why we a preferred social work resourcing partner to more than 400 public sector organisations, including local authorities and the NHS, many high-profile charities and private organisations. It’s simple. We place people first. Our social care consultants offer an award-winning service. A service that values and understands the complex and sensitive nature of social work. The candidates we support, trust us to find them highly suitable positions. This is why more than one in every three social workers is registered with Sanctuary Social Care. For our clients, this means we can recruit the right person, for the right role, every time. We do this whilst operating one of the most robust candidate-checking and compliance processes in our industry. Explore your resourcing options At Sanctuary Social Care, we believe in a sweet spot in social care recruitment; a place where both client and candidate needs are met, every single time. Employers who chose to work with Sanctuary Social Care appreciate this. They trust us to resolve their exacting resourcing pain points. This can be as a master vendor or a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) partner. Or you might simply need a resourcing service you can plug into when you need either locum or permanent social work staff, fast. Being on preferred supplier lists throughout the UK means you can quite literally tap into a service. Locum social work recruitmentOur specialist locum social work resourcing teams have created trusted relationships with candidates across every pocket of the UK. Whether you are a rural authority contending with other local employers or a city-based employer competing with neighbouring boroughs, we can help. And if you need an entire fully-managed project team, we can assist with that too! At Sanctuary Social Care, we love nothing more than a challenge. If you have contract social work roles you are finding difficult to recruit for, we are confident we can identify a solution. Permanent social work recruitmentOur 360-degree permanent social work recruitment process is an attractive option for local authorities looking to create the very best social care teams. We can quickly resource permanent professionals across the entire spectrum, from the most promising newly qualified social workers to the most experienced practitioners, and even senior level social work executives. Want to find out more? Contact us today!
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Social Care RPO
Depending on your recruitment needs, you may require more support than simply sourcing and placing social care candidates. As an RPO, Sanctuary Social Care acts as an extension of your HR or Resourcing function to provide a holistic social work hiring solution. We can manage every aspect of your recruitment; from marketing and talent sourcing to candidate placement and beyond!At the heart of each RPO arrangement is a bespoke recruitment business plan built on a well-established methodology. We focus on placing the right social work professional - in the right role - every time. The benefits of an RPO solutionOur outsourced recruitment solution can be delivered on or off-site. Your RPO Project Manager ensures your recruitment needs are always met by carefully co-ordinating activities to attract high-calibre candidates. This typically involves:Analysis of resourcing needs with a comprehensive workforce plan Marketing campaign, including employer brand consultation Talent engagement and strategic sourcing 360° candidate communications Compliance and risk managementPre-employment screening, including interviewsVendor and supply chain managementWe’ll review your talent acquisition pain points and identify a cost-effective solution that’ll break down barriers to recruitment. Ultimately, this gives you a more robust workforce plan.To find out more about our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service, contact us.
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Social Care Frameworks
Sanctuary Social Care is a specialist recruiter of social work professionals, boasting the largest social work resource in the UK. We are preferred suppliers to over 160 local authorities, Cafcass, major charities and many private sector employers across the UK. We are also an approved supplier on the main NHS frameworks. These include Crown Commercial Service (CCS), Collaborative Procurement Partnership (CPP) and HealthTrust Europe. This means we can place healthcare professionals - including personal social services personnel - to NHS trusts across the UK.How are we different?Our consultants receive training from our in-house senior social workers. Therefore, they understand the complex and sensitive nature of social work and the role recruitment plays. Our strong client partnerships offer social workers unique job opportunities - both in locum and permanent positions - attracting the largest social work resource in the UK. This enables us to match high calibre practitioners, with the right skills, experience and attitude, to your individual needs. We also operate one of the most robust candidate screening processes in our industry to ensure we comply with the terms set out in the frameworks and preferred supplier agreements we adhere to.To start your recruitment journey with Sanctuary, contact us today!
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Locum Social Care Staffing
Sanctuary Social Care is much more than a recruitment service; we provide complete resourcing solutions to meet your exacting needs as a social work employer.Our specialist social care resourcing teams have created trusted relationships with clusters of locum social work professionals throughout every pocket of the UK. This means, wherever you are based, we can meet any and every locum resourcing demand you place on us, quickly and easily. With one in three social workers now registered with Sanctuary Social Care, we can manage larger scale projects, and swiftly relieve recruitment crises.With our market-leading compliance and safeguarding process, you can be assured that all staff provided have been thoroughly vetted for your peace of mind.Looking to recruit social work staff? Register a job with Sanctuary today!
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Permanent Social Care Staffing
Our 360-degree permanent social work recruitment process will find you the most able candidates; not simply the most available. Our permanent social work consultants take the time to understand the intricacies of your organisation. We look at the profile of the communities you support, your existing team structure and safeguarding priorities. Our reach spans the entire profession, from the most promising newly qualified social worker, to the most experienced practitioners available. That means your vacancy is guaranteed to reach the people you are looking to attract.We fully account manage the entire process, with both employer and potential employee, giving you back the gift of time. With traditional recruitment methods, reaching the right people, of the required volume can be very expensive. But with our permanent recruitment service, it’s completely free, with a fee only payable when you recruit one of the practitioners we supply. That provides you with a completely risk-free opportunity to employ the right people for those hard-to-fill permanent social work roles in your organisation.Looking to recruit social work staff? Register a job with Sanctuary today!
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Social Care Master Vendor
We don’t need to tell you how competitive social care recruitment is. Skills shortages mean there’s unprecedented pressure on hiring managers to ensure a safe working environment. But using several different recruitment agencies can often make the process even more complex, just at a time where every unfilled hour counts!Funnelling all of your locum resourcing needs through Sanctuary Social Care – your ‘master vendor’ – you will gain back significant control of your vacancies, with:Reduced resourcing costsIncreased visibility of expenditureMore efficient back-office processesHow is master vendor contract with Sanctuary different?We do things differently to other master vendors because we’ve worked hard to make sure we do not face the same challenges. Working with us, you’ll gain:Access to a greater pool of social work professionals Highly experienced consultants who will quickly find you the most able, not simply the most available candidatesA simple, user-friendly vendor systemStronger compliance processes than any other systemSupport from our experienced health and social care recruitment marketing teamA smooth end-to-end processA successful master vendor relationship is all about building trusted relationships with people. We have fantastic working relationships with every vendor neutral and managed service provider in health and social care.Supporting 2nd tier agencies is something we are well-respected for. Our single process, followed by all suppliers, is at the heart of our operations. We are proud to say that on average we reduce our clients’ year-on-year temporary staff spend by 10-15%. To find out how we could make your social work recruitment more efficient, contact us today!
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Social Care Safe Recruitment
As a leading social care resourcing specialist in the UK, we place safe recruitment at the heart of everything we do. We believe, this is not just best practice, but our duty. A duty we take seriously as a DBS umbrella organisation. This is why we operate one of the most stringent compliance processes within our sector – so that you know that the candidates we place are of the highest calibre. Robust complianceAll DBS registered bodies (such as recruitment agencies and umbrella organisations) who process criminal record and safeguarding checks must physically check original documents before applying, and therefore before any worker starts work. Every candidate goes through a robust and thorough compliance checking process prior to their placement with you. This includes a face-to-face meeting, where original documentation is seen and verified, and where an interview is completed to ensure each candidate is suitable for the post for which they have applied.Our compliance checks include:Proof of identity (provided in person)Full employment history Verification of professional registration Checking of professional referee details for the last 5 yearsVerification of training and qualificationsDisclosure and Barring Service and relevant overseas police checks Proof of eligibility to work in the UK Check on up—to-date statutory and role specific training Occupational health screening (for relevant services)This approach ensures our recruitment services are always compliant and that we adhere to the safe recruitment guidelines for those working with vulnerable people, as set out through local and national government, as well as the Crown Commercial Services, CPP and HealthTrust Europe framework teams.To start your safe recruitment journey today, contact us!
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