Find and retain more high quality care staff with our employee referral app.

Your people are your best recruiters.
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Why Care Friends?

Finding the right quality of care staff is a major challenge. Employee referral programmes are the proven best source, but they are a hassle to administer and fiendishly hard to keep top-of-mind with staff. As a result, they only deliver a fraction of their true potential.

Care Friends is an app developed by Neil Eastwood, author of Saving Social Care, and launched in partnership with Skills for Care that changes all that.

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What our customers say…

“Care Friends is consistently delivery high quality candidates who share our company values. Our staff has referred 79 new starters via the app in less than a year, and the retention of these referrals remains significantly higher than other recruitment sources. Plus, our employees love it, and enjoy receiving cash rewards for this referrals. Who doesn't want to work amongst friends?”

"We have been delighted and overwhelmed by the success of Care Friends since we launched in July. Over those three months, a whopping 42% of our new starters have come via the app, which is brilliant and the quality is excellent."

“It's no secret that employee referral produces high quality candidates who stay for longer - but the simple genius of the Care Friends app is in its ability to give immediate feedback and instant rewards to our CAREGiver team for their referral effort.”

“The volume of activity since the first day of launch has astonished me. We were committed to the concept of Care Friends from the moment we saw it because we knew that an app would bring the age old concept of a staff referral to life and into the 21st century. We weren't expecting to have hired our first new recruit by the end of week.”

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Key benefits

For your care business

Increased employee referrals compared to a manual referral scheme
Access hidden talent in your local community
Empowers your staff to build your brand on social media
Recognise and reward staff performance with discretionary bonus points to improve engagement and retention

For your care staff

Easier to refer friends direct from their phone in just 3 taps
Earn rewards for each step of the process, not just for successful hires
Stay motivated and engaged by earning extra bonus points for good performance
Easily keep track of how many points/cash they have earned and choose when to cash them in
Leaderboard makes referring fun and competitive

For your recruiter

Generate a regular flow of high quality candidates
Save significant admin time through automation
Save time and money with 50% less year one attrition of Care Friends referrals compared to sector average
Build trust with staff by not overlooking a referral payment