Scottish home care provider launches campaign to recruit one care worker per day in 2022

2022 is "shaping up to be the biggest" 12 months HRM Homecare Services will see in its 27 year history as it launches a new recruitment drive which will take on an extra 365 home carers in a year or the equivalent of one a day.

This initiative comes as the care sector faces a severe shortage in the number of home care workers from post-Brexit and COVID-19 pandemic.

However, HRM Homecare says it has bucked this trend and increased its workforce by 20 per cent, from 246 to 300 staff, over the pandemic.

HRM Homecare Services Ltd managing director, Lynn Laughland said: “2022 is shaping up to be the biggest 12 months in the 27-year history of HRM Homecare. We are experiencing significant growth, and as a result there are huge opportunities for people who would like to establish a career in care for themselves.”

Most of the new roles will be in frontline care at home services across Ayrshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, and East Dunbartonshire.

Ms Laughland also wants to speak to people interested in joining the highly-skilled operational side of her business as operations managers, service managers and care coordinators.

Ms Laughland said: “We have invested significantly in the quality of our services, and we are experiencing a growing demand for them. Fundamentally, we want to help people improve their quality of life and live well in their own homes, but our aim is also to be first choice as an employer for people who want to work in social care.”

’I’m hugely positive about the future of care in Scotland’

HRM Homecare has also joined forces with youth charity the Prince’s Trust in Scotland. Together, they set up a brand new project that selected five young adults aged between 16 and 30 to be trained by HRM at a variety of its locations.

This training was not only free but comprehensive, focusing on the skillset and qualities needed to be a home care worker as well as other roles such as human resources and quality control which exist in a company such as HRM Homecare.

December 2021 saw the five staff members from Troon graduate in a special ceremony at the Prince’s Trust’s Wolfson Centre in Glasgow.

Ms Laughland said: “The project was a great example of a collaborative approach to solving the recruitment crisis in the care sector.

“Going forward, I’m hugely positive about the future of care in Scotland. Social care is the fourth major economic contributor to Scotland. In future, its economic significance will rise substantially due to demographic challenges and the nations digital and industrial transformation.

“We want to be at the forefront of this growth in the sector and harness these future opportunities of digital health and care transformation to support people to live well in their own homes. Showcasing Scotland as a ‘world leader’ in high-quality care provision is as important as ensuring that organisations like HRM Homecare are sustainable growing organisations that provide people with choice and control about who supports them.”

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