A new national advertising and PR campaign was launched this week by the Department of Health to increase the number of social care workers.
It aims to recruit an additional 45,000 social care workers and 5,000 social workers by the end of the 2005/06 financial year.
To support the campaign Jobsgopublic and the Emploiyerís Organisation have built a website listing hundreds of social care worker jobs available in the public and not-for-profit centres. Visitors can immediately apply for jobs on the site.
Together, the DoH, Jobsgopublic and the Employerís Organisation hope to increase the number of people entering the social care workforce and to raise the awareness of the valuable contribution that social care workers and social workers make to many peopleís lives.
According to David Marshall of Jobsgopublic, the message that the Department of Health is aiming to convey is a simple one:
People who have physical or psychological problems often require practical help coping with the everyday business of living. Social care workers provide this support.
One of the problems is that the right people cannot necessarily find the right jobs. There is no one resource that details a comprehensive collection of jobs that involve social care.
Until now that is. Now jobseekers looking for social care work can go to www.jobsgopublic.com/socialcarecareers , where jobs by email, on-ine application forms and other career management tools are at their disposal.
Jobsgopublic is the UKís largest and most successful public sector e-recruitment service. It advertises in excess of 50,000 jobs each year and has an ABC audited subscriber base of over 200,000 active job seekers. It provides the official channel for all UK local government jobs through its LGJobs portal.
Multimedia campaign to seek 45,000 new social care workers
Department of Health and Jobsgopublic collaborate on multi-million pound recruitment campaign
