ZENJ Recruitment

01/06/2026

📢 Registered Managers & Deputy Managers – A snapshot of what's currently available within Children's Residential Care at ZENJ Recruitment

We are currently supporting a number of providers across England with leadership appointments and have the following opportunities available:

🏡 Registered Manager
💷 £60,000–£75,000
📍 London Region

🏡 Registered Manager
💷 £50,000–£65,000
📍 London Region

🏡 Registered Manager (Learning Disabilities)
💷 £50,000–£60,000
📍 South East Region

🏡 Registered Manager
💷 £50,000–£65,000
📍 East Midlands

🏡 Registered Manager
💷 £55,000–£65,000
📍 West Midlands

🏡 Registered Manager
💷 £50,000–£60,000
📍 South East Region

🏡 Deputy Manager
💷 £35,000–£40,000
📍 North West Region

Across almost every brief, providers are looking for individuals who can demonstrate:
✅ Strong safeguarding leadership
✅ Experience within Ofsted-regulated services
✅ The ability to build, develop and retain teams
✅ Confidence managing referrals, incidents, and multi-agency relationships
✅ Experience supporting children with EBD, Learning Disabilities, trauma, or complex needs
✅ A track record of delivering positive outcomes for young people

One thing that has stood out from conversations with providers recently is that they are increasingly focused on evidence and impact. They're looking for leaders who can clearly demonstrate the difference they've made - whether that's improving Ofsted outcomes, stabilising a service, developing teams, strengthening safeguarding practices, or creating better outcomes for young people.

If you're considering your next move, open to hearing about opportunities, or simply interested in understanding what the current market looks like, feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation.

📩 [email protected] Landline: 02038354996 Phone: 07441396199 WhatsApp Mobile: +447537144375

29/05/2026

The World is short of 5.8 million nurses! ZENJ Recruitment

That's how many nurses the world is short of, according to the WHO's State of the World's Nursing 2025 report.

Even more striking is where the gap sits, and where it doesn't.

78% of the world's nurses live in countries representing just 49% of the world's population. By 2030, nearly 70% of the global nursing shortage will be concentrated in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.

But the headline number hides a more complicated story.

📌 India: ~282,000 new nurses trained per year, and still ~2.4 million short of WHO benchmarks domestically.
📌 The Philippines: produced 37,000 new nurses in 2024, almost half its decade-ago average, while sitting on a domestic shortage of 190,000+.
📌 Indonesia: produces 100,000–138,000 graduates a year, with a genuine surplus. Yet exports only ~1,000 nurses annually because of language and policy barriers.
📌 Nigeria: scaled enrolments from 28,000 in 2023 to 115,000 in 2025 — while losing 42,000 nurses to overseas employers in the same window.
📌 Germany: facing a 150,000–520,000 nurse shortage by 2030. All recent workforce growth has come from foreign nationals.
📌 The UK: 31,000+ vacancies. 27% of registered nurses are internationally trained. Domestic course acceptances are down 40% in some regions.
📌 Australia: short ~71,000 FTE by 2035 — with ~17,500 of that in aged care alone.

The world isn't short of trained nurses. It's short of nurses where they're needed, and the source-country pipelines that built today's global workforce are contracting.

For Australian aged care providers, this changes the strategic calculation. The Philippines is no longer an inexhaustible source. Nigeria and Kenya are emerging, but we're competing for them with Germany, the UK, Canada and the Gulf.

The recruiters who'll still be doing this work in 2030 are the ones building ethical, bilateral source-country relationships now, not the ones placing visa ads and hoping.

What does your workforce strategy look like five years from today?

Sources: WHO State of the World's Nursing 2025 · TruMerit 2025 Nurse Migration Report · OECD Health at a Glance 2025 · HRSA · NMC UK · Indian Nursing Council · Philippine PRC · Nigeria NMCN · German Federal Employment Agency · Australian Department of Health Nursing Supply and Demand Study.

29/05/2026

The National Health Service was built on a promise: that healthcare would be free at the point of need, for everyone, always. That promise is under quiet but serious pressure.

NHS England is carrying over 100,000 unfilled vacancies, one in every seven posts empty. In the past two years, more than 5,500 UK-trained doctors have emigrated, largely to Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, citing pay, working conditions, and professional exhaustion. Nursing vacancy rates in some trusts exceed 20%.

This is not simply a staffing crisis. It is a workforce exile.

The UK trains health professionals who then staff other nations' health systems while its own deteriorates. This is a policy failure, not a workforce planning anomaly. Competitive salaries, investment in domestic training pipelines, and a serious conversation about mental health support for clinical staff are not generous gestures, they are system survival measures.

A health system that cannot retain the people it trains will not survive the next decade.

Source: NHS England Workforce Statistics (2024); British Medical Association emigration data; The King's Fund Health System Analysis, 2024.

25/05/2026

⚠️ International students may have been overcharged for UK visa fees.

Recent reports state that the Home Office may have charged more than the amount set out in law for Student and Child Student entry clearance applications since late 2023.

The reported overpayments are:
• £127 for visas paid between autumn 2023 and March 2025
• £161 for visas paid between March 2025 and now

According to reports, refund requests can be made within 5 years of payment — including by former students who have already graduated or left the UK.

Students are encouraged to:
• keep copies of payment confirmations
• keep copies of any refund requests submitted
• retain any acknowledgement emails or responses from UKVI

🔗 https://www.lsesu.com/news/article/6001/Important-update-for-international-studentsYou-may-be-owed-a-refund/

🔗 https://lnkd.in/eTqzcied

22/05/2026

Yesterday’s announcement on mileage rates will have a significant impact on the care sector, particularly small and medium-sized organisations delivering care in people’s homes and communities every day.

This is great news for care workers, especially in the home care sector and those in rural areas. However, once again, providers delivering Local Authority and NHS-funded services are being asked to absorb rising costs without a clear plan for how these will be funded.

Already, around a third of Council’s pay as little as £16 an hour for home care, a rate below the cost of employing a care worker on the minimum wage.

For many smaller providers already operating on extremely tight margins, this is another unfunded operational cost that adds to the cumulative pressure of rising employment costs, workforce shortages, regulatory burden and increasing operational costs. The situation is becoming unsustainable.

We need everyone to urgently back the campaign to ensure social care is properly recognised, valued and funded. That includes creating a system where good local care providers can survive and thrive, and where Council’s pay a fair price for care delivery.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/10p-mileage-rate-rachel-reeves-b2981129.html #

Unions have welcomed the announcement, with many campaigning for years for the rate to be increased

13/05/2026

Is a “Bank First” approach always saving taxpayer money?

New analysis shared with the Health and Social Care Committee suggests the answer may be more complicated than many assume, with some NHS trusts reporting higher costs for certain bank shifts than agency cover.

Read the full article here: https://hubs.la/Q04gf3VJ0

Some NHS trusts are paying substantially more for ‘bank’ staff than for agency workers, claims Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

13/05/2026

List of below permanent opportunities that our team are working on at ZENJ Recruitment;

Ofsted Registered Manager (Children's Residential Home)
Reading, Berkshire
£65,000-£70,000 + bonuses
37.5 hours per week

Ofsted Registered Manager (Children's Residential Home)
Colchester, Essex
£45,000-£55,000
40 hours per week

Please get in touch on 02038354996 / WhatsApp +447537144375 or email at 📧 [email protected]
https://zenjrecruitment.careers/register-now
for more information.

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12/05/2026

Today, we celebrate the compassion, resilience, and dedication of nurses everywhere for International Nurses Day 💙

Nurses are at the heart of healthcare, providing comfort during difficult times, advocating for patients, and making a difference every single day.

Their commitment, kindness, and professionalism never go unnoticed.

At ZENJ Recruitment, we are incredibly grateful for the amazing nurses who continue to deliver outstanding care and support to individuals and families across our communities. Thank you for all that you do.

Happy International Nurses Day to every nurse making a positive impact around the world 🌍✨

Get in touch today and find out how we can support.

12/05/2026

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has written to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee requesting an inquiry after new Freedom of Information (FOI) data revealed that some NHS trusts are paying significantly more for Bank staff than agency workers.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has written to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee requesting an inquiry after new Freedom

12/05/2026

Current Available Jobs at ZENJ Recruitment

🔹️Registered Manager and Senior Residential Support workers - L36 - Solo Provision - Up to £55,000 for the RM

🔹️Registered Manager - L18 - New multi-bed provision awaiting registration - Up to £55,000 for the RM

🔹️Registered Manager - Sutton Coalfield - Up to £75,000

🔹️Registered Manager - Runcorn - WA7 - Up to £75,000

🔹️Registered Manager - St Helens - Up to £52,000 (Established organisation with multiple homes)

🔹️Teams Leader - Leyland - PR26 - Salary: £29,600 plus additional £50 per sleep in (approx. 10 per month) - Awaiting registration after Ofsted inspection

🔹️Residential Support Worker - Leyland - PR26 - Up to £14.00 per hour - Awaiting registration after Ofsted inspection

🔹️Deputy Manager/ Team Leader/ Residential Support Workers - Chesterfield - Open to salary

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