Spend less time hiring — and more time caring.

Hirecat is a dedicated Recruitment Managed Service built specifically for the UK care sector.

We combine real experience in care with award-winning recruitment and process design expertise to help you attract, engage, and retain exceptional people — all while saving time and reducing costs of having open vacancies.

We understand both sides of the recruitment challenge — the frontline care experience and the operational pressures of running a growing care business.

Hirecat is not just another recruiter — we’re your care recruitment partner.
We specialise in working as a true partner with you by fixing recruitment bottlenecks, improving hiring processes, and creating sustainable workforce pipelines that help care providers grow with confidence.

We’ve already helped care companies:

• Reduce time-to-hire by 50-90%

• Improve candidate conversion rates

• Improved candidate brand perceptions 

• Build and retain more resilient, motivated care teams

We have various services available and can offer a bespoke approach to recruiting at all levels.
We can support all areas of your business including:

Care staff

Office staff

Back office and cleaning staff

Care Coordinators

Deputy Registered Managers

Registered Managers

It depends what level of support you choose - but it can save up to 30 hours a week. We estimate it takes 38-130 hours to recruit 1 person and an average of 60-100 days from application to them starting. We can support some or all of the process to not only save you up to 50-90% of this time but also free you and your team up to focus on the day to day work of care.

Yes and we have over twenty five years experience in managing online job boards.

As an official Indeed Agency Partner, we manage and optimise your job adverts to maximise return on investment and attract quality applicants. With direct care industry knowledge on best use of key words, calls to action and eye catching adverts and advice on how and when to invest in paid adverts or credit to contact candidates directly. We are also happy to support effective candidate attraction on any of your preferred job boards.

We endeavor to offer the best advice to ensure we’re supporting finding enough candidates to fill your roles.

Contact us today to find out how we can manage your Indeed campaigns, screen your candidates, and strengthen your recruitment process from start to finish.

Yes and that’s what great about choosing us as your trusted recruitment partner. We offer a variety of packages to suit your recruitment needs, existing process, team and systems.

We’ll support as much or as little as you need; from your job board ads, CV reviewing, phone screening and shortlisting, arranging interviews, verbal offer and/or onboarding checks. Chose a package to suit your needs.

Yes and welcome the opportunity to support all types of care businesses. With extensive industry experience we can provide support and advice for a sole site or branch up to a large branch network.

We can also support all types of care businesses from domiciliary care, care homes, supported living, day care and both adult and children services across the UK.

We have extensive experience in support recruitment across the UK and have a strong geographical knowledge across all of the country.

We will ensure our approach is tailored to your local, regional or national requirements.

Yes, we offer the option of our Onboarding Service where we can carry out all checks required to ensure your new starter is CQC compliant and is fit, ready and have the right to work for you.

We don’t hold our own Sponsorship License and can’t give Immigration advice but do have recent experience of supporting other businesses to source employees requiring sponsorship or those looking to supplement existing income with up to 20 hours of additional work.

We can partner with Local Authority Hubs to source candidates if you have a Sponsorship License. We remain full up to date with all Home Office requirements for sponsored employees.

Yes, please get in touch today if you’d like to discuss a bespoke process review and/or booking high quality recruitment training for anyone in your team.

When we partner with any new customers, we’ll spend time getting to understand your exisiting process and becoming a true partner to you and your team. We also offer a quarterly progress review meeting to ensure we all remain aligned and able to deliver tangible results.

We have additional experience and expertise in Project Management, Lean Improvement methodology and training capability to share best practice and details industry know-how. If you wish to focus on any element including attraction, capability and/or retention we can help you build a plan of action.