The Safer Recruitment Solution for Social Care
The Safer Recruitment Solution for Social Care
Cut your hiring time in half, reduce costs, and stay compliant - without the admin overload.
We’ve helped care organisations to:
Slash overall time-to-hire by more than 60%
Dramatically reduce manual admin
Cut agency staff spend by 66%
Improve staffing levels with more permanent staff members
Effortlessly demonstrate good governance & compliance
Simplify and/or automate labour-intensive processes
Put candidate experience front and centre in the process
We’ve helped care organisations to:
Slash overall time-to-hire by more than 60%
Dramatically reduce manual admin
Cut agency staff spend by 66%
Improve staffing levels with more permanent staff members
Effortlessly demonstrate good governance & compliance
Simplify and/or automate labour-intensive processes
Put candidate experience front and centre in the process
The Safer Recruitment Solution for Social Care
Cut your hiring time in half, reduce costs, and stay compliant - without the admin overload.
Built for Compliance-Focused Regulated Industries
Built for Compliance-Focused Regulated Industries
Harbour’s Safer Recruitment Solution (SRS) underpins recruitment and compliant onboarding across adult and children's social care, including care homes, children's homes, domiciliary care and supported living services.
Harbour’s Safer Recruitment Solution (SRS) underpins recruitment and compliant onboarding across adult and children's social care, including care homes, children's homes, domiciliary care and supported living services.
More Time and Resources to Spend on Care
More Time and Resources to Spend on Care
It’s hard to be at your best when you’re buried under applications and recruitment paperwork.
By significantly reducing the amount of time and money you spend on filling vacancies, Harbour enables you to divert more resources (and headspace) to doing what you do best - delivering great care!
With a standardised workflow, a simple interface and a bit of common-sense automation, Harbour makes your recruitment process faster, cheaper and easier than ever before.
In fact, Harbour customers report a more than 60% reduction in time-to-hire and a significant decrease in costs!
It’s hard to be at your best when you’re buried under applications and recruitment paperwork.
By significantly reducing the amount of time and money you spend on filling vacancies, Harbour enables you to divert more resources (and headspace) to doing what you do best - delivering great care!
With a standardised workflow, a simple interface and a bit of common-sense automation, Harbour makes your recruitment process faster, cheaper and easier than ever before.
In fact, Harbour customers report a more than 60% reduction in time-to-hire and a significant decrease in costs!
It’s hard to be at your best when you’re buried under applications and recruitment paperwork.
By significantly reducing the amount of time and money you spend on filling vacancies, Harbour enables you to divert more resources (and headspace) to doing what you do best - delivering great care!
With a standardised workflow, a simple interface and a bit of common-sense automation, Harbour makes your recruitment process faster, cheaper and easier than ever before.
In fact, Harbour customers report a more than 60% reduction in time-to-hire and a significant decrease in costs!
Improve Staffing Levels and Deliver Consistent Care
Improve Staffing Levels and Deliver Consistent Care
Having the right number of suitably skilled staff is essential to ensuring people receive safe, consistent and person-centred care.
How Harbour helps:
Cut your time-to-hire by over 60%, giving you more time to deliver great care.
Improve the candidate experience with a smoother application process that reduces drop-outs and ghosting.
Review applications faster and get AI summaries to help you quickly determine a candidate’s suitability.
Shortlist candidates quickly and let candidates schedule themselves into established interviews with the click of a button, so you can move promising applicants forward without unnecessary delays.
Recruit top candidates before they’re snapped up elsewhere. A faster, more responsive hiring process, using email, text and WhatsApp, gives you a better chance of securing the skilled staff your service needs.
Having the right number of suitably skilled staff is essential to ensuring people receive safe, consistent and person-centred care.
How Harbour helps:
Cut your time-to-hire by over 60%, giving you more time to deliver great care.
Improve the candidate experience with a smoother application process that reduces drop-outs and ghosting.
Review applications faster and get AI summaries to help you quickly determine a candidate’s suitability.
Shortlist candidates quickly and let candidates schedule themselves into established interviews with the click of a button, so you can move promising applicants forward without unnecessary delays.
Recruit top candidates before they’re snapped up elsewhere. A faster, more responsive hiring process, using email, text and WhatsApp, gives you a better chance of securing the skilled staff your service needs.
Safer Recruitment Processes and Good Governance
Safer Recruitment Processes and Good Governance
Within the CQC, CiW, CiS and Ofsted, it is vital that recruitment is managed through safe, consistent processes that can be clearly demonstrated via a complete audit trail.
How Harbour helps:
Demonstrate robust recruitment practices & hiring oversight with standardised workflows.
Record every stage of the process, giving you a transparent audit trail for inspections.
Prevent compliance gaps before they happen by flagging missing information and preventing candidates from progressing until essential requirements have been completed.
Within the CQC, CiW, CiS and Ofsted, it is vital that recruitment is managed through safe, consistent processes that can be clearly demonstrated via a complete audit trail.
How Harbour helps:
Demonstrate robust recruitment practices & hiring oversight with standardised workflows.
Record every stage of the process, giving you a transparent audit trail for inspections.
Prevent compliance gaps before they happen by flagging missing information and preventing candidates from progressing until essential requirements have been completed.
Reduce Reliance on Agency Staff
Reduce Reliance on Agency Staff
Having consistent care from staff who patients/residents are familiar with helps breed trust, reduces anxiety, and improves communication.
How Harbour helps:
Reduce your agency spend by up to 66%.
Build a strong, skilled team to cover any gaps caused by holidays or sick leave.
Recruit and onboard the right permanent staff quickly, allowing you to reduce your reliance on agency cover sooner.
Having consistent care from staff who patients/residents are familiar with helps breed trust, reduces anxiety, and improves communication.
How Harbour helps:
Reduce your agency spend by up to 66%.
Build a strong, skilled team to cover any gaps caused by holidays or sick leave.
Recruit and onboard the right permanent staff quickly, allowing you to reduce your reliance on agency cover sooner.
Get New Starters Underway - Fast
Get New Starters Underway - Fast
Every new starter should have a complete, accurate record of the checks and information used to make a safe recruitment decision.
Harbour automatically brings this information together into one audit-ready new starter pack, so nothing gets lost between recruitment, onboarding and day one.
How Harbour helps:
Right to Work checks, DBS information, references, qualifications, employment history and other required documentation are captured and stored against the candidate’s record.
Save hours of admin as new starter packs are generated automatically from information already captured, eliminating duplicate data entry and manual paperwork.
Clearly flag missing information and outstanding checks helping ensure candidates don’t progress until essential requirements are complete.
Every new starter should have a complete, accurate record of the checks and information used to make a safe recruitment decision.
Harbour automatically brings this information together into one audit-ready new starter pack, so nothing gets lost between recruitment, onboarding and day one.
How Harbour helps:
Right to Work checks, DBS information, references, qualifications, employment history and other required documentation are captured and stored against the candidate’s record.
Save hours of admin as new starter packs are generated automatically from information already captured, eliminating duplicate data entry and manual paperwork.
Clearly flag missing information and outstanding checks helping ensure candidates don’t progress until essential requirements are complete.
Brand's we've worked with...
Brand's we've worked with...
Cut hiring times and slash costs with our Safer Recruitment Solution - packaged to bring optimal outcomes at affordable prices, with an unparalleled commitment to compliance and guarding your governance.
“Join the growing list of care providers who’ve cut hiring times and costs with our Safer Recruitment System.”
BY THE NUMBERS
BY THE NUMBERS
Real Results from Real Care Providers
Circle Health Group
Circle Health Group
Hire time reduced by nearly 50%, 80% more applications in the first year, and tasks that once took 8–10 emails now completed with a single click.
Care UK
Care UK
Slashed onboarding time by over 60%.
Jewish Care
Jewish Care
Some candidates processed in under 48 hours.
Overall
Overall
Tens of thousands of hires completed with zero compliance breaches.
Healthcare Homes
Healthcare Homes
Reduced dropout rates from 12% to 5%, cut agency spend by 66%, and trimmed 10 days off time-to-hire.
Cygnet Health Care
Cygnet Health Care
"A top-notch 360 recruitment management platform."
OUR PURPOSE
OUR PURPOSE
We Know Social Care
With over 17 years’ experience building recruitment solutions and extensive partnerships with healthcare providers, we’ve established our Safer Recruitment Solution (SRS) to meet the exacting needs of social care in a cost-effective, packaged offering. From quick candidate communications to robust compliance steps, Harbour SRS is designed to help you run a more efficient, cost-effective hiring process - bringing in top-quality team members while eliminating admin delays and regulatory headaches.
We Know Social Care
For over 16 years, HARBOUR has been committed to supporting SMEs in the social care and healthcare sectors with purpose-built recruitment solutions. We help businesses streamline hiring, stay compliant, and grow efficiently, providing tailored ATS systems that adapt to the evolving needs of your organization.
Compliance at the Core
Stay ahead of CQC and Ofsted requirements with built-in checks and transparent auditability.
Candidate Engagement
Provide a smooth, engaging journey from application to onboarding, reducing dropouts and improving retention.
Business-First Efficiency
Eliminate expensive agency fees and wasted admin time with our all-in-one recruitment platform.
Compliance at the Core
Stay ahead of CQC and Ofsted requirements with built-in checks and transparent auditability.
Candidate Engagement
Provide a smooth, engaging journey from application to onboarding, reducing dropouts and improving retention.
Business-First Efficiency
Eliminate expensive agency fees and wasted admin time with our all-in-one recruitment platform.
Need Something Extra?
Need Something Extra?
We understand that some organisations need more than an out-of-the-box solution. That’s why we offer single-tenant hosting and fully custom builds tethered to our core codebase for seamless future-proofing. No compromises needed, just brilliance unleashed to fit your exact and exacting needs.
We understand that some organisations need more than an out-of-the-box solution. That’s why we offer single-tenant hosting and fully custom builds tethered to our core codebase for seamless future-proofing. No compromises needed, just brilliance unleashed to fit your exact and exacting needs.
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