Care Home roles in Southampton
Protocol Healthcare Services recruits for nursing and residential homes in and around Southampton, covering everything from a single shift to a permanent contract. We place Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, senior carers and support staff.
Southampton and the area we cover
Work comes up near Portswood, Highfield and Shirley, much of it within reach of Southampton General Hospital. Between University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Southampton City Council, most of what we staff around Freemantle sits under one of the two.
Shifts land right across the patch: Portswood, Highfield and Shirley one week, Freemantle, Bassett and Bitterne the next. If you are based around SO14 or SO19, you are inside the area we cover most heavily.
What you would be doing
- ✓ Clear record keeping and handover between shifts
- ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
- ✓ Supporting residents at mealtimes and with nutrition
- ✓ Mobility support and safe moving and handling
- ✓ Medication support appropriate to your role and training
- ✓ Activities, companionship and keeping families informed
Shifts, and how they are booked
Full-time and part-time patterns both work. If Bitterne is easier for you to reach than Bitterne Park, say so and the rota follows it. Once you are established we keep the work regular rather than sporadic, usually in the same two or three services around Bitterne Park.
We recruit for temporary and permanent posts. Trying several settings between Portswood and Freemantle first tends to make the permanent choice obvious.
What we look for
- ✓An enhanced DBS check, which we can arrange
- ✓The right to work in the UK
- ✓Reliability and a genuinely person-centred approach
- ✓NMC registration if you are applying for a Registered Nurse post
- ✓Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required
What we do for you
We are a two-office team, not a call centre. The person booking your Hampshire shifts knows which settings suit you. We recruit from our offices in Edgware and Bournemouth and place people nationwide; there is no branch in Southampton itself, which we would rather say plainly.
If you can travel, there is steady work in Winchester, Lymington and Portsmouth as well, and many people cover two of those alongside Southampton.
Tell us which parts of Hampshire you can reach and we will match you to what is open. There are immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Call 020 8951 4510 or use the contact form.
Care Home Jobs in Southampton, answered
Not always. Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required We provide training, and your consultant will match you to settings around Southampton that fit what you have done before.
Day, night and weekend shifts, on full-time and part-time patterns. You set your availability and we work to it. Once you are established we can offer regular ongoing shifts rather than one-offs.
Both. We recruit for temporary and permanent positions, and many people start on agency shifts around Southampton before moving into a permanent post once they have found a service that suits them.
Across nursing homes, residential homes, dementia units and specialist care settings. In practice that means Portswood, Highfield, Shirley, Freemantle and Bassett, covering SO14, SO19, SO15 and SO16, and out into Hampshire. Southampton General Hospital is the main hospital in the area.
We have immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Once your registration, right-to-work and DBS checks are in place, shifts can usually follow quickly. Call 020 8951 4510 or send us your details to get started.
Care Home Jobs near Southampton
Looking for work in Southampton?
Register and a consultant will be in touch about shifts around Portswood, Shirley and the wider Hampshire area.