DHSC: GO: ASC International Recruitment Support Market Engagement

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is seeking to understand where it could usefully engage and support with the social sector to address the shortfall in adult social care workers through international recruitment.

The aim is to understand how DHSC can: • Help social care employers make more effective and efficient use of international recruitment to address workforce shortages and improve services. • Ensure the care sector can recruit international staff effectively, ethically, and safely, protecting workers from exploitation. • Make the process less complex and more streamlined for employers and for potential recruits.

DHSC will hold an information event via Teams webinar on 25 August with the possibility of a second event on 30 August if most interested providers cannot attend the first event.

Please register your interest for one event and we will send the link.

To register your attendance, please email internationalrecruitmenttaskforce@dhsc.gov.uk with contact details for all attendees.

Dial-in details will be sent out in due course.

A Request for Information (RFI) including draft specification can be found by logging into Atamis the Departments eSourcing tool.

To obtain further information and register your interest please follow these steps: 1.

Log in or Register through the supplier portal at https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome; 2.

Locate the opportunity using 'My Proposals and Quotes' or in 'Find Opportunities' 'DHSC: GO: ASC International Recruitment Support Market Engagement' Ref: C100146; 3.

Click Register Interest.

When expressing an interest, service providers should provide: (i) the contact details of the supplier's representative; (ii) the requested RFI responses.