Local Authorities benefits

2. Money saving. The local authorities and hospitals have to arrange care home placements for its service users. A social worker or the relevant team usually spends more than three hours a day ringing care homes to check their bed availability. They have to search for an appropriate care home, find their number, call the care home and wait to speak to the care home manager to find their bed availability. Delays in finding the right care home will lead to delays in placements and hospital discharges. If we consider a social worker's hourly rate of £20, the total cost for the local authority will be £60 a day. So for 10 social workers, the local authority cost will be approximately £600 a day (£12,000 a month). This website will help local authorities staff, health authorities staff and the families of service users to find the right care home and their bed availability in less than five minutes, which is accessible 24/7 online. This will help local authorities and health authorities staff to save more than 2 hours a day in their working hours, they can use the saved time to deal with other cases and also may able to accept more case allocation, which will help to reduce the health and local authorities allocation waiting list.

Using this website will help the local authority to save more than £12,000 a month. Once subscribed, we will create a folder for the local authority so that the care homes in the local authority area can add their details on this website. We will also create a password to access the local authority page to see care homes details and bed availability. For more information please e-mail: info@carehomevacancies.co.uk