Here, we signpost to trusted organisations and resources to offer additional support when employing international care workers. Lots of these resources can be used with your wider workforce.
Pastoral Care Guide
The National Care Forum has produced a pastoral care guide, developed with the support of the Local Government Association and ADASS. This contains links to useful resources that will help social care employers to explore resettlement support and pastoral care for overseas recruits, including refugees and/or displaced people who are settled in the UK with the right to work.
Right to Work Video
In this video, we provide guidance to social care providers on complying with their Right to Work obligations, including when and how to carry out Right to Work checks. We also provide some practical tips on easy measures providers can put in place to ensure that they won’t fall foul of non-compliance issues.
Legal & HR Webinars
Lester Aldridge hosts monthly international recruitment webinars exclusively for West Midlands local authorities and care providers.
Past webinars include everything from the roll out to e-visas to pay and redundancy and the new employment rights bill.
Recordings and slides are available exclusively for West Midlands–based care providers and local authorities via the WMCA event page.
You will have been sent the Password – however, if you cannot find this please email hello@wmca.international
Cooking Guide
Staffordshire County Council has created a practical cooking guide to support international care workers as they settle into life in the UK.
The guide provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for preparing a range of light meals and popular hot drinks commonly enjoyed in England.
It goes beyond recipes and also includes:
• Descriptions and images of common UK kitchen equipment
• Practical guidance on kitchen hygiene and food safety
• Advice on how to read food labels in the UK
• Instructions for preparing ready meals safely and correctly.
This can be accessed via Staffordshire County Council’s care guides page, where you can find guidance on other useful topics to support your practice as an adult social care provider.
Common Slang Words & Phrases
Warwickshire County Council have created a new Slang Booklet to help international and new staff generally navigate the everyday language they may hear from clients and colleagues. It features a collection of words and phrases unique to Warwickshire and other parts of the UK.
The booklet offers a practical introduction to commonly used slang terms, covering areas such as body parts, clothes, food and drink, death and sleep.
Support for International Care Workers
The International Recruitment Programme provides a dedicated space to support international care workers in the adult social care sector across the West Midlands.
Tailored regional-wide support and resources includes:
- Supporting Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) Applications
- Job matching service
- Signposting to health and wellbeing support
- Safeguarding
