About Kayline Care

Why we exist

Care recruitment is different. The wrong carer can affect a resident's day, week, or worse. Job boards do not capture the things that actually matter, the calm voice, the patience for repeated questions, the willingness to chat about a 1972 wedding photograph for the hundredth time. Generalist agencies often miss those signals entirely.

Kayline Care was set up to fix that. We are a UK-wide care recruitment partner with one belief at the centre of the desk: a carer is being matched to a person, not just a rota. That means the provider gets a brief taken seriously, a vetted shortlist delivered on time, and a consultant who has actually spent time understanding the service. And it means the candidate gets the truth about the role, the residents, the team, and the shifts, not a sales pitch.

Who we work for

Our clients are UK care providers, mostly small to mid-size, with the occasional national group:

• Care homes: residential and nursing, dementia-specialist, mixed-needs
• Supported living providers: learning disability, mental health, complex needs
• Domiciliary & home care branches: community rounds and live-in services
• End-of-life & palliative: residential and home-based, often in liaison with hospice teams

What we do, plainly

We place permanent care staff for UK providers. Our desk is built around hires that stay, the brief, the vetting, the offer support, the day-7 / day-30 / day-90 follow-ups, every step geared toward keeping the placement settled in the role.

The roles we place most often:

• Carers and senior carers
• Dementia-specialist staff
• Care coordinators
• Care administrators and compliance officers
• Deputy managers
• Registered managers (CQC-aware, NMC pin or Skills for Care Level 5)
• Service managers and area managers across multi-site groups

How we vet

Every candidate goes through:

• Enhanced DBS verification
• Right-to-work checks
• Reference contact (current and previous employer where possible)
• Training certificate review (Care Certificate, dementia-specific, end-of-life, NMC pin where relevant)
• A structured competency conversation, scenario-tested where the role calls for it
• Salary expectations and shift-pattern fit, captured in writing

You will not see candidates who have not been through every step. That is the point.

How we think about a placement

A successful placement is not a CV submission. It is the moment six months later when the carer is still on the rota, the resident still smiles when they walk in, and the team trust them. That is the only outcome that matters to us, and the only one we measure against. Everything else, the speed of the shortlist, the quality of the brief, the candidate vetting, the offer support, exists to give that six-month outcome the best possible chance.

Our values, the short version

• Care is personal. Brief us on the residents and the team, not just the job spec. We take it from there.
• Tell the truth. If the salary is below market, we will say so. If a candidate is not the right cultural fit, we will not pretend they are.
• One throat to choke. One consultant per provider, end to end. Holiday cover is briefed properly so nothing slips.
• Stand behind the work. Free replacement period on every placement. No small print.
• Vetted properly. DBS, references, training certificates, all checked before the introduction. Always.

Want to talk?

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