Permanent care staff. On your payroll, not ours.

Get your care home off agency. For good.

We place permanent ancillary and care staff who join your payroll and stay in the role, so you can stop paying agency rates month after month. A pre-screened shortlist within 72 hours, backed by a guarantee that means it.

Retention you count on

93.4%still in post at 12 months
72hrto a pre-screened shortlist
£1.8msaved across our placements

Send us one role. The first shortlist tells you everything.

Placing across

Kitchen & CateringDomestic & CleaningMaintenanceActivities & AdminCare Assistants
About us

The end of agency dependency for care homes.

Hiring in care is hard. The right people are scarce, the wrong hire is expensive, and agency temps drain your budget month after month with nothing permanent to show for it. We work differently.

We focus on permanent ancillary staff, kitchen, domestic, maintenance, activities and admin, with carers placed alongside. They start on your payroll, not ours. No retainer, no hourly markup, no ongoing charges. One fixed fee, one good hire, backed by a guarantee.

One fixed fee, one good hire, and a guarantee behind it. It starts with one conversation about the roles you need filled.

How it works

Four steps, one good hire

Simple, fast and built around your home. From first brief to a permanent member of your team, with us checking in long after they start.

01

You brief us

Tell us the role, the home, the rota and the must-haves. One conversation is all it takes to get started.

02

Shortlist in 72hr

Pre-screened, interview-ready candidates within 72 hours. People who actually fit the brief, not a stack of random CVs.

03

They start

You interview, you choose, they start, as a permanent member of your team. Your culture, your way.

04

We check in

Day 1, Week 1, Month 1, Month 3. We stay close to make sure the hire sticks.

The numbers

Results that speak for themselves

We would rather show you than tell you. This is what you get when the staffing is handled properly.

93.4%
Still in post at 12 months
72hr
To a pre-screened shortlist
£1.8m
Saved across our placements
0
Retainers or ongoing fees
The difference

Partner, not agency

The label matters because the behaviour is different.

  • One fixed fee, once

    No retainer, no hourly markup, no ongoing charges. They join your payroll, not ours.

  • Shortlist within 72 hours

    A pre-screened shortlist in front of you within three working days of a full brief.

  • Built for retention

    We place people to stay, not temps to churn. Permanent, direct, lasting.

  • 90-day guarantee

    If a placement does not work out within 90 days, we put it right.

No fluff, no jargon. Just the right people, in front of you fast, who actually stay.

— The Haydon Specter approach

The maths

Recruitment that ends with you hiring, not renting.

Not temps. Not hourly. Not a leak in your budget. Agency cover bills you every shift, forever, and you never own the relationship. We charge once, they join your payroll, and they stay.

Agency temps
Haydon Specter
Model
Per hour, per shift, ongoing
One-off fixed fee
One carer, 12 months
£37,000 – £46,000
A fraction of that, once
On your payroll?
No
Yes
Retention
None
90-day guarantee

£37,000 a year on agency, or one fixed fee with us and they are still in post a year later. That is the whole pitch.

One-off fixed fee No retainer No hourly markup No ongoing charges

Our guarantee

If a placement does not work out within three months, you are covered. Refund or free replacement, your choice.

If they leave
You get
Or
Within 2 weeks
100% refund
Free replacement
Week 3 – Month 1
75% refund
Free replacement
Month 2
50% refund
Free replacement
Month 3
25% refund
Free replacement
Proof, not promises

From full agency reliance to zero.

Since January 2026, we have fully staffed care homes with zero agency dependency. We took a Shropshire home from full agency reliance to zero agencies in three months. Most recently, four permanent carers placed for a 32-bed home in Hampshire, all still in post.

11Homes fully staffed
3 moShropshire home to zero agencies
4 / 4Hampshire carers still in post
Already have a recruiter?

We work alongside your internal team, not over the top of it.

Plenty of the homes we work with already have an internal recruitment function. We are not here to replace them. We take the roles that drain their time, the hard-to-fill ancillary and care positions, so your team can focus on the hiring they are best placed to do. And when the next gap opens, because it always does, we are the easy call instead of the agency.

We take the overflow

When your team is stretched or a role has sat open too long, we step in and fill it. No long contract, no taking over your function.

We cover the gaps

Kitchen, domestic, maintenance and care roles that are tough to source. We focus there so your recruiter can focus on the rest.

You stay in control

Your team, your process, your final say. We slot into how you already work and hand everything over clean.

Pay only on success

No retainer eating your budget alongside an internal salary. One fixed fee, only when someone good actually starts.

For candidates

Permanent roles, placed direct.

We place people into permanent care home roles that often never reach the public job boards. No temp churn, no being passed around. Here is how it works.

Initial chat

A relaxed call to understand what you are after, your experience, and where you want to be.

CV review

We sharpen your CV and present you at your best to the right homes.

Introductions

We put you in front of the right homes and prep you properly for every interview.

You start

Contracts sorted, onboarding handled, and we stay in touch once you are in post.

Roles we are working right now

A snapshot of current openings. Many roles never reach the public boards, so get in touch even if you do not see your fit.

Head Chef

Hertfordshire
Permanent
£40 – 42kFull time

Lead the kitchen at a well regarded care home. Care catering experience preferred.

Split-Site Chef

Buckinghamshire
Permanent
CompetitiveTwo sites

Cover two nearby homes. IDDSI knowledge a strong advantage.

Sous Chef

East Sussex
Thu – Sun
Competitive4 day week

Weekend-weighted kitchen role. Strong work-life balance.

Cook

Shropshire
Permanent
£14.25/hrFortnightly rota

Care home cook role. Fortnightly rota with alternating Sundays.

Live-In Carer

Surrey
Live-in
CompetitivePrivate client

Live-in care for a private client. Experience and warmth essential.

Care Assistant

Surrey
Permanent
CompetitiveCommunity

Community care role supporting clients in their own homes.

We were spending heavily on agency staff and needed a long term solution. At one stage, agency costs made up almost a quarter of our staffing budget.

What impressed us most was the honesty and transparency. We always knew exactly where things stood, communication was clear, and the quality of applicants was consistently high.

Within three months, we had reduced our agency usage to virtually zero. More importantly, the support staff they placed stayed. They fitted into our teams quickly, performed well, and helped bring much needed stability across our homes.

The difference has been significant. We now have a stronger, more reliable workforce and far less reliance on agency cover.

— Operations Manager, Care Home Group (North London)

Straight answers

The questions we get asked

No runaround. Here is what providers usually want to know before they pick up the phone.

What does it cost?

A one-off fixed fee per placement, agreed up front and based on the role. No retainer, no hourly markup, no ongoing charges. Tell us the role and we will give you the number straight, request our Terms above for the full breakdown.

How long is the guarantee?

Three months. If a placement leaves within that window, you get a refund or a free replacement, your choice. The refund tapers from 100% in the first two weeks down to 25% in month three, and a free replacement is available at any stage.

When is the fee payable?

We invoice on the candidate's start date, payable within 30 days. Nothing is due before someone actually starts with you, and the guarantee applies once the invoice is settled.

Who handles right-to-work and compliance checks?

We carry out initial identity and qualification screening as part of sourcing. Full right-to-work verification, DBS, references and any CQC fit-and-proper checks remain with you as the employer, since the candidate joins your payroll. We hand over everything we have to make that straightforward.

For care providers

Request our Terms of Business

Ready to see exactly how we work? Tell us a little about your home and we will send our full Terms across. We review every request, so this goes to a real person, not an inbox.

  • Fixed one-off fees, no retainers or ongoing charges
  • Full 90-day tiered guarantee in writing
  • Plain English, no jargon, nothing hidden

We share Terms with care providers only. Recruitment agencies and third parties, this one is not for you.

Please use your work email, not a personal address.

We review every request and send Terms within one working day. We do not share your details.

Thanks, that is with us. We will review it and send our Terms across within one working day.

Send us one role.

If the shortlist we put in front of you is not better than anything you have seen, we never speak again. We only take on homes we know we can sort out, so we are not here to talk you into anything. One role tells you everything.

Every enquiry answered within 24 hours. That is the promise.
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