Case studies · Care & social care
Care roles, filled
Registered managers, a senior support worker and frontline domiciliary care. 145 candidates worked, 16 presented, 4 hired — the fastest in 27 days.
Operations & Compliance Manager — Adult Social Care
An independent domiciliary care provider rated Outstanding by the CQC · Adult social care
- Time to fill
- 101 days
- Package
- £55,000–£60,000+ DOE
- Location
- West London, office-based with flexibility
A senior leadership hire inside a provider carrying an Outstanding rating. The rating is the constraint: whoever takes the role inherits responsibility for keeping it, so regulatory depth was not negotiable and neither was cultural fit.
53 candidates were worked and 11 interviewed by us, but only four were judged strong enough to present. All four were interviewed by the client.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 53
- Internal interview 11
- Presented to client 4
- Client interview 4
- Hired 1
53 candidates worked. Every one of the four presented was interviewed.
Four candidates presented, four interviewed. Against an Outstanding rating, a padded shortlist would have wasted the client’s time and risked the hire.
101 days for a role where getting it wrong carries a regulatory cost.
Domiciliary Care Worker
A small, family-run domiciliary care agency · Domiciliary care
- Time to fill
- 51 days
- Package
- £14.00–£15.00 per hour
- Location
- The South Coast
Frontline care attracts applications in volume, and that is the difficulty rather than the relief. The agency is small and family-run, its clients see the same faces every week, and a wrong hire is felt immediately by the people receiving care.
58 candidates were worked and 12 interviewed by us. Three were presented.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 58
- Internal interview 12
- Presented to client 3
- Client interview 2
- Hired 1
58 candidates worked. Three presented.
Three candidates out of 58. In frontline care the volume is never the problem — the screening is.
Filled in 51 days.
Registered Manager
A provider of therapeutic residential care for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties · Children's residential care
- Time to fill
- 27 days
- Package
- £50,000–£60,000 depending on experience, plus bonus scheme
- Location
- Manchester, full time
A provider of therapeutic residential care for children and young people aged 11 to 17 with emotional and behavioural difficulties needed a Registered Manager for a regulated children's home. The record required is narrow: two years with BESD children in the last five, a year at senior level, a Level 5 Diploma, and Ofsted inspections managed to at least Good.
This was not a volume search. One candidate was sourced and screened, and that candidate met the standard in full. They were interviewed by us, presented, interviewed by the client and hired — 27 days from brief to filled. Where the qualifying record is this specific, the work is finding the person, not sifting a field.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 1
- Internal interview 1
- Presented to client 1
- Client interview 1
- Hired 1
One candidate sourced, one presented, one hired. Filled in 27 days.
One candidate sourced, one presented, one hired. Some searches are about precision, not volume.
27 days from brief to filled.
Senior Support Worker
A growing care organisation supporting adults and children · Adult & children's care services
- Time to fill
- 76 days
- Package
- £26,000–£34,000 depending on experience and qualifications
- Location
- Lancashire
A growing care organisation supporting both adults and children wanted a Senior Support Worker to mentor care staff, review care plans and risk assessments, support audits and safeguarding, and help with recruitment and training. Experience across adult and children's services plus a minimum Level 3 qualification narrowed the field considerably in Lancashire.
Thirty-three candidates were sourced and screened and twenty-four of them were interviewed by us — an unusually high proportion, because the qualification and the dual adult and children's experience had to be checked in conversation rather than read off a CV. Eight were presented. Seven were interviewed by the client and one was hired, 76 days in.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 33
- Internal interview 24
- Presented to client 8
- Client interview 7
- Hired 1
33 candidates worked. Filled in 76 days.
Twenty-four of the thirty-three candidates were interviewed by us before eight reached the client.
76 days from brief to filled.
How the fee works
Every role on this page was delivered on the same basis: a fixed fee, agreed before we start, with no percentage of salary attached. The straightforward search and the difficult one cost the client the same.
That is the point of the model. A percentage fee charges you more for hiring a better-paid person and rewards us for the easy search. A fixed fee puts the risk of a long search where it belongs — with us. And if we do not fill the role, you get every penny of your fee back.
Every figure here comes from our own placement records. Clients and placed candidates are not named. Full detail on the model is on our Guaranteed Hire page.
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