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Jobs

AllCareJobs

- www.allcarejobs.co.uk/index.asp?bhcp=1
Launched in September 2006, AllCareJobs is a specialist site for jobs in social work and care.

Agency Central

- www.agencycentral.co.uk /agencysearch/socialcare/skills/skillsearch.htm
This site provides a directory of social care recruitment agencies

All the Top Bananas

- www.allthetopbananas.com
This site provides a comprehensive job search facility providing job seekers vacancies from companies, agencies and job boards in a unique way with ease and speed.
Each job displays links directly back to the recruiterís website.

Bluecare

- www.bluecare.co.uk
Bluecare places and manages social care professionals within the public, private and voluntary care sectors throughout the UK.

Care Appointments

- www.careappointments.co.uk
Care Appointments is a popular destination for social care professionals, students and voluntary sector workers. With a lively mix of jobs, news, & career advice, it serves as a useful multi-media solution for organisations interested in recruiting high quality candidates across all care sector disciplines.

Careers Partnership (UK)

- www.careers-partnership-uk.com
Provides private individuals and employers with in-depth careers counselling and careers rescue services and recruitment assistance. The site provides Career Doctor services to several professional bodies.

Career Jet

- www.careerjet.co.uk
Careerjet is an employment search engine for the UK. It allows you to search a growing selection of jobs listed on company sites as well as jobsites in one go saving you the trouble of having to go to each site individually.

Care Match

- www.carematch.org.uk
Managed by the Staffordshire Social Care Workforce Partnership (SSCWP), CareMatch is an innovative web based recruitment site that supports job seekers seeking employment in the Social Care and Health sector and employers seeking staff in the sector. Employers include Direct Payment employers. They aim to put employers in direct contact with people who may be entering the sector for the first time, moving jobs, or looking to enhance their careers.

Charles Hunter Associates

-www.charles-hunter.com
Charles Hunter Associates – Targeted Recruitment for Social Care Specialists. Charles Hunter Associates is a specialist Health & Social Care recruitment business providing its candidates with both permanent and temporary contract solutions throughout the UK.

Community Care

- www.community-care.co.uk
Community Care is the major magazine of the social care sector. Its website contains a wide range of information about current issues in social care, as well as a jobs page.

Compass

- www.compassjobsfair.com
Compass is the definitive careers guide distributed to individuals who work, and want to work in social care. It is a careers companion that assists with job hunting, training and professional development. It is for anyone who wants to do part-time voluntary work to those looking to move into senior management positions.

Connexions

- www.connexions.gov.uk
Connexions is a general careers site aimed at school and college leavers. It contains advice and information on a wide range of careers and qualifications, including social care and social work.

e carers.com

- www.ecarers.com
Ecarers is a specialised job board offering access to social work and social care vacancies available across the UK.

Grapevine Recruitment

- www.grapevinerecruitment.co.uk
Grapevine Recruitment is a jobsite that covers many industry sectors including social care. Search and apply for jobs online.

Great Socialcare

- www.greatsocialcare.co.uk
An independent specialist social work, care and social housing job board.

Guardian Jobs

- society.guardian.co.uk/jobs
Guardian Jobs is part of The Guardian website. The jobs section contains adverts for a variety of vacancies in health and social care, charities, health and social care and government, many of which can relate to social work and social care.

Hays Social Care

- www.hays.com/socialcare/
Hays Social Care (formerly Social Work Solutions) is a recruitment consultancy specialising in jobs for social work professionals and social care staff.

Healthcare Jobsnet

- www.healthcarejobsnet.co.uk
Healthcare Jobsnet is a job search engine designed to help you find the very latest UK jobs spread out across the internet.

Jobcentre Plus

- www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
This website enables you to search online for care vacancies by geographical area.

Jobs Go Public

- www.jobsgopublic.com/socialcarecareers
On this site you’ll find all social work vacancies currently listed on the official Local Government job site, LGjobs.as well as social work vacancies with other Public Sector and Not-for-Profit organisations.

Jobs in Social Work

- www.jobsinsocialwork.co.uk
The site delivers the latest opportunities in social housing, domiciliary and residential care, local authorities, voluntary and charitable sectors, to candidates from a range of backgrounds. Social care managers, care assistants, mental health nurses, live-in carers, qualified social workers, outreach workers and day care officers are some of the social care professionals using the site.

MyJobSearch.com

- www.myjobsearch.com
This site has features that will help you compile a list of the jobs you are interested in, a CV bank where you can upload your resume to thousands of employers and agencies in one place and an alerts system to keep you updated when new jobs are added to the site.

Outcomes UK

- www.outcomesuk.com
Outcomes UK undertake work on behalf of the DCSF and the Department of Health CSIP, and directly with Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, Children's Trusts and Independent and Third sector providers. Services are focused upon supporting sustainable improvement and change and are often provided in combination to best meet clients' needs. These services include: Outcomes Based Accountability; Creative Learning; Consultancy; Camhs Consultancy; Camhs Recruitment; Interim & Permanent Recruitment & Resourcing; Workforce Development & Training; NVQ; Independent Social Work Services.

People Unlimited

- www.charitypeople.com
People Unlimited is a recruitment agency working with the not for profit sector with NGOs, charities, arts, health, education, public sector and social care organisations.

Public Jobs Direct

- www.publicjobsdirect.com
Public Jobs Direct is an independent specialist site dedicated to jobs in the Public Sector across the UK.

Public Sector Careers

- www.publicsectorcareers.org
An independent specialist public sector job board

Qualified Social Workers UK

- www.qswuk.co.uk
QSW UK is a recruitment consultancy specialising in the recruitment of qualified social workers to social care providers in the United Kingdom.

Randstad Care

-http://www.randstadcare.co.uk/welcome-to-randstad-care.html

Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT) and Reliance Care, have combined resources to form Randstad Care.

Reed Social Care

-www.reed.co.uk/socialcare
Launched in February 1995, reed.co.uk was the first recruitment site offered by a recruitment agency in the UK. Jobs on reed.co.uk come from over 9,000 recruiters, including leading employers in the private and public sectors, recruitment agencies and consultants.

RIG Social Care

- www.rigsocialcare.co.uk
www.rigsocialcare.co.uk
RIG Social Care offers a specialist recruitment service dedicated to the provision of social care staff for the public and private sectors.

Sanctuary Personnel

- www.sanctuarypersonnel.com
Sanctuary Personnel is a specialised recruitment firm handling qualified social worker roles, both permanent and locum across the UK.

Social Care Jobs UK

- www.socialcarejobsuk.co.uk 
A free portal job site for organisations within the Social Care & Health Care Sector to post their current vacancies.
Jobseekers can register to get access to all live positions.

The Social Education Trust

- www.childrenuk.co.uk
This website links to a webmag called 'Children and Young People', which offers some interesting articles on subjects related to social work and social care. It also contains a number of job pages, arranged by region.

Swim

- www.swimrecruit.co.uk
Swim is a specialist recruitment agency, covering all disciplines of Social Work, Social Care and Social Housing Recruitment.

Tip Top Job

- www.tiptopjob.com
TipTopJob is a generic jobsite that covers many industry sectors including social care. Search and apply for jobs online.

The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)

- www.LGcareers.com
A guide to careers in local government including career profiles in all the different service areas.

- www.LGjobs.com
The official recruitment website for local government advertising current vacancies in councils all over the country.

Total Jobs

- www.totaljobs.com
Total Jobs is a generic jobsite that covers many industry sectors including social care. Search and apply for jobs online.