Welcome to Talent for Care
Before COVID-19, care worker retention was the number one priority for workforce sustainability. Now, there is an immediate need to support front-line staff through the pandemic, recovery and whatever comes next. Managing uncertainty is now, more than ever, a vital skill.
Innovation and investment in personal development of care staff are now essential to prevent a large scale fallout from the pandemic, with the risk of staff experiencing burnout or post-traumatic symptoms following their outstanding response to the challenges and uncertainties of COVID-19.

Welcome to Talent for Care
Before COVID-19, care worker retention was the number one priority for workforce sustainability. Now, there is an immediate need to support front-line staff through the pandemic, recovery and whatever comes next. Managing uncertainty is now, more than ever, a vital skill.
Innovation and investment in personal development of care staff are now essential to prevent a large scale fallout from the pandemic, with the risk of staff experiencing burnout or post-traumatic symptoms following their outstanding response to the challenges and uncertainties of COVID-19.
Recovery Champions
Recovery Champions has been taken up enthusiastically in both the NHS and Social Care with remarkable results. “This course has had a permanent impact on my life. Experiences like this don’t come along very often and when they do, WOW! it’s like a part of me has changed!” Devon Recovery Champion May 2021
Throughout their programme our participants feel heard and in turn they become the confident, trusted person that people turn to first.
This course has had a permanent impact on my life. Experiences like this don’t come along very often and when they do, WOW! it’s like a part of me has changed!
Peer Support Workers
Our Peer Support Workers Training and Support programmes are running successfully in hospitals and charity settings with equally successful outcomes and grateful participants.
Many trusts and organisations are introducing and/or providing new support for their PSWs as the demand on wellbeing hubs increases. Our training and support packages bring new strategies and perspectives to the role resulting in more confident, skilled and resilient PSWs.
I learnt how to improve my resilience and how to bounce back: it proved particularly useful when we went through an outbreak in the home.
The largest research study into the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) in the UK revealed a 300% increase in those suffering from the highest levels of stress, anxiety and depression during the first wave of Covid-19, compared to before the pandemic.
There is a genuine fear that, once the dust begins to settle on the pandemic, there will be an exodus of NHS staff who feel too broken by their experiences over the past year to continue in their role.
In the BMA’s February 2021 tracker survey, 26% of respondents said they were ‘more likely’ to take an early retirement, and 18% said they were ‘more likely’ to leave the NHS for another career.