Care recruitment systems
Chaos to clarity: transforming internal recruitment in care.
Reduce agency use. Less job board fees. Faster time-to-hire. Less admin.
Built for care providers, from start-ups to established groups, CQC and Ofsted regulated.
Sound familiar?
Most care providers aren't failing at recruitment. Their systems are.
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Agency dependency. Temp spend creeping up every quarter, and no clear plan to reduce it.
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Job board fees draining the budget. Thousands spent on Indeed and Reed for roles that still take six weeks to fill.
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Twelve hours a week lost to admin. Chasing references, copying data, answering the same questions over and over.
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Slow time-to-hire. Good candidates take the first offer they get. A five-day process becomes a ghost.
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Manager burnout. Care managers doing three jobs, with recruitment layered on top of all of it.
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Compliance chaos. DBS checks, references, right-to-work scattered across spreadsheets and inboxes.
Everyone in the building feels it.
The cost of broken recruitment doesn't sit in one team. It spreads.
Care managers
You're delivering care and running recruitment on top of it. The admin is a second job nobody hired you to do, and the system isn't helping.
Hiring managers
Good candidates drop out because your process is slow or they never hear back. You know it. You just can't fix it without the right tools.
Owners and directors
Every open vacancy, every agency invoice, every early leaver is a number on your P&L. You need the system fixed, not just the symptom patched.
Support workers
Short-staffed shifts. Agency colleagues who don't know the service users. Burnout from carrying the gaps while the rota never quite holds together.
Service users
A revolving door of unfamiliar faces. Continuity of care broken. Trust eroded every time someone new walks through the door who doesn't know them.
Families
Confidence drops every time they meet another new face. Complaints rise. Peace of mind disappears when consistency is the one thing they need.
What changes when the system works.
Figures from clients who have gone through FMC's framework. Not projections.
Faster time-to-hire
Lower recruitment cost
Hours back per week for managers
Reduction in job board spend
Free tool
Start with the free one.
Agency fees are only the visible cost. The Cost Calculator surfaces the true figure: vacancy days, manager admin time and lost candidates all counted in. Most providers are shocked by the real number. Takes 90 seconds, free to use.
Free to use. 90 seconds.
Most consultants diagnose. Then quote you to fix it.
The Blueprint gives you the fix-it map for £197. Act on it yourself, or use it to commission the Diagnostic.
Health Check & Blueprint
The Health Check is the X-ray. The Blueprint is the surgical plan.
For £197, you work through 54 questions scoring your recruitment across 9 stages. The Blueprint takes that score and turns it into a prioritised, costed, 30-page map of how to recruit effectively in care, built from your actual results. Not consultancy theory. Fifteen-plus years of frontline care and 360 recruitment.
"Many of our clients act on the Blueprint alone and never need to spend another penny with us. That's by design."
- Your /180 score across 9 recruitment stages
- 54 honest questions, guided and easy to work through
- 30-page Blueprint workbook: your personalised fix-it guide
- 58 prioritised action points, ready to start this week
- Templates and checklists for every stage of hiring
- CQC, Ofsted and Skills for Care alignment throughout
- Lifetime access, downloads as PDF any time
One avoided agency placement can cost thousands. This pays for itself before you finish reading it.
In their own words.
"We reduced our Indeed spend from £3,000 to £500 a month."Mike, Dual Reg' RM
"Working with Matt has transformed our recruitment process. We've reduced our hiring time by 60% and cut recruitment costs by 40%. The automation of our processes has freed up 10+ hours a week for our managers."Clare, Owner, care home group, South West
"You are one of the few people who work in recruitment that I actually feel has genuine integrity."Chris Dunsdon, Parkwood Care Children's Services
"Matt has insight from both sides and is a very knowledgeable, straight-talking guy. Always have people around that know more about things than you."Chris, Owner, Bridgewater Homecare
"Matt's delivery of this project was exceptional. Communication was effortless. He was a sincere and patient point of contact. What really translated during our time working together was the fact that he cared."Nat, Trustee, Age UK Portsmouth
"We reduced our Indeed spend from £3,000 to £500 a month."Mike, Dual Reg' RM
"Working with Matt has transformed our recruitment process. We've reduced our hiring time by 60% and cut recruitment costs by 40%. The automation of our processes has freed up 10+ hours a week for our managers."Clare, Owner, care home group, South West
"You are one of the few people who work in recruitment that I actually feel has genuine integrity."Chris Dunsdon, Parkwood Care Children's Services
"Matt has insight from both sides and is a very knowledgeable, straight-talking guy. Always have people around that know more about things than you."Chris, Owner, Bridgewater Homecare
"Matt's delivery of this project was exceptional. Communication was effortless. He was a sincere and patient point of contact. What really translated during our time working together was the fact that he cared."Nat, Trustee, Age UK Portsmouth
Matt Fitton
Recruiter · Support worker · Care manager · Founder
I've worked every side of care recruitment. As a recruiter placing the talent, a support worker delivering the care, a care manager fighting the rota, and now as a founder rebuilding the systems that keep breaking.
FMC launched in October 2023. The whole thing is built on one observation: most care providers don't have a recruitment problem. They have a systems problem dressed up as a recruitment problem.
More about MattWhere do you go from here?
The Health Check tells you what is broken. These three services fix it, at the depth that fits your situation.
Recruitment Diagnostic
A two-week forensic audit of your entire recruitment operation, delivered with a costed 90-day action plan. Guarantee: find £5k of recoverable cost or you don't pay.
See the Diagnostic90-Day Reset
12 weekly 1:1 sessions over 12 weeks that rebuild your recruitment capability from the inside. Customised curriculum, WhatsApp support, 30-day post-programme review.
See the ResetATS + Automations
A bespoke Airtable ATS built for your service, fully automated, delivered in 30 days. Candidate portal, compliance dashboard, reporting. Pays for itself in agency savings within 6 months.
See the ATSEverything runs on C.E.R.T.
The four-stage framework FMC has used with every client since 2023. Not four separate problems. One continuous cycle.
Create
Build a process worth applying to. Clean pipeline. Job ads that reflect who you actually are. Automated comms that treat candidates like they matter.
Expand
Widen where you look and who finds you. Employer brand, sourcing data, channels that produce hires who stay rather than drain your budget.
Retain
Fix the leaky bucket before filling it. Structured onboarding, real check-ins through the first 90 days, feedback loops that flag problems early.
Train
Build a culture where people grow. Progression pathways, skills development, the clear sense that working for you is good for a career.
Working together: start to finish.
A discovery call first, always. Then you choose how deep we go.
Discovery call
Twenty minutes, no pitch theatre. We work out what your recruitment actually needs. If FMC is not the right fit, you'll know it from that call.
Health Check and Blueprint
Under an hour. Score your recruitment across 9 stages, get a number out of 180, and walk away with a prioritised plan. Many people stop here and act on it themselves.
Recruitment Diagnostic
Two weeks of forensic work. Every cost uncovered, every gap flagged, a costed 90-day action plan delivered. The action plan tells you which service makes sense next.
Your service
90-Day Reset, ATS + Automations, or Partner Services. Whichever the Diagnostic recommends, we build it together around your service and your team.
Embedded and independent
The system runs. The skills are in your building. Agency reliance drops, costs come down, managers stop firefighting, and retention starts climbing.
What FMC stands for.
Honesty over polish.
Rather tell you what's actually broken than sell you something that sounds good. If your problem isn't recruitment, you'll hear it. If you don't need the most expensive service, you'll hear that too.
Systems that fit.
Care SMEs don't need enterprise tech. They need tools that actually get used. Every system FMC builds is sized for the business that's using it, not the business someone wants to sell to.
Humanity.
Automation removes admin so the human conversations can happen better. The candidate care call. The honest 30-day check-in. The exit interview that actually listens. Tech serves the human element. Never replaces it.
See what it's actually costing you. Then fix it.
The calculator gives you the pound figure. The Health Check gives you the score out of 180. Different numbers. Between them, you'll know exactly what your recruitment is costing and exactly where it's broken.