Recruiting and retaining domiciliary care staff post Brexit Thea Seville: Director of Workforce Intelligence and Business Development Skills for Care

The National Minimum Data Set for Social Care reveals what we know about the current make-up of the ASC sector and workforce: 7% of adult social care workers currently working in England are from the European Union These workers are doing 90,000 jobs There is a regional variation in jobs filled by EU workers: 13% in London / 2% in the north east 18% of EU workers (16,000 workers) arrived in the past 12 months

Domiciliary care in England   40,100 establishments* provide adult social care 8,300 of these establishments provide CQC regulated domiciliary care 42% of all jobs in adult social care are in domiciliary care There are 645,000 jobs in domiciliary care *local unit of employment

Turnover in domiciliary care in England The turnover rate in domiciliary care is 33% (27% in total workforce) Almost a half of care workers in domiciliary care leave within their first year There is an experienced ‘core’ of workers (55% of workers have been in the sector for at least 5 years) Evidence that recruiting for values reduces turnover

Vacancy rates in domiciliary care in England Across whole of the adult social care sector there are 84,000 vacancies at any one time 11% of jobs in domiciliary care and 5% of jobs in residential care are vacant at any one time Average cost of recruitment £4k  

Post-referendum challenges For existing EU workers: Uncertainty about freedom of movement and right to stay Financial impact of brexit Incidence of racism For employers: Retaining existing workforce Managing early exits and cost of recruitment Future attractiveness of the UK as a place to live and work

Opportunities to strengthen good practice Heightened focus on workforce and capacity planning as employers analyse dependence on migrant labour   Reinforce messages that social care is a sector with vacancies for the right people with the right values and behaviours Employers target, recruit and train individuals who are new to the sector and changing careers - focus on recruiting for values The sector Recruitment and Retention Strategy - key employers and stakeholders come together to share solutions and innovative practice

Skills for Care supporting employers’ recruitment and retention strategies Recruitment and retention conference: Thursday 9 March, 2017 Values based recruitment seminars Finding and keeping workers website Recruitment and retention toolkit and resources i-care ambassadors National Graduate Management Training Scheme Sector route-way: pre-employment support