Attract and retain essential expertise
Do you have the strategies in place to engage essential expertise - and ensure they have a reason to stay?
Our recruitment experience in social work
Build your social work team with fully compliant permanent, interim and temporary candidates, leveraging our national networks and local expertise.
To safeguard communities and provide the highest level of care, organisations require trusted, high-quality professionals with the right skills. Whether you want to find and engage locum social workers or hire on a permanent basis, we’re your social care leadership partner.
In response to rising national skills shortages in high profile talent areas of council operations - such as qualified social workers – we've developed specific approaches for each skillset, engaging and evolving constantly to meet and exceed performance targets in worker quality, cost, hire time, retention and satisfaction. In such a highly regulated sector, you can trust our comprehensive compliance checks and candidate screening are second to none.
As your leadership partner, we can help define your business strategies, improve onboarding processes and increase retention of new social work talent. Our managed service programmes (MSPs) embody this, affording your organisaiton the talent strategy it needs to remain agile and mitigate future risk.
We’ve built close partnerships with our clients – such as Birmingham City Council and Southend City Council - understanding their specific care needs to deliver differentiated temp and perm recruitment.
Whether you’re looking to diversify your hiring, fill unexpected vacancies, or deliver new care services, we offer end-to-end social work talent solutions designed to add value to your service provisions.
Get in contact with one of our specialist consultants today.
Our social work fields
The qualified social work professionals we provide cover a range of levels, from frontline staff through to senior level appointments across both adult and children services.
We hire a variety of children's social workers (all Grades) including Looked after children, CAMHS, Fostering and Children in need.
Some of the adult social worker positions we provide include AMHP, team leaders and team managers, senior practitioners, occupational therapists, best interest assessors and DoLs.
Need new recruits? Look no further
Whether you’re seeking short-notice temporary support or longer-term employees, we have candidates in our databases that are sure to fit the bill.
Access our talent networksMARKET INSIGHTS FROM HAYS
Hays recognised that differing parts of the organisation and our wholly owned subsidiaries have differing and evolving needs, governance and agility levels, Hays have adapted processes, developed dedicated micro-sites and structured their supply chain to not only meet, but to exceed the expectations of these service areas.
-Head of Contract Management, February 2019