FAIRWAY IS OFFICIALLY...
One of the best in Healthcare A Great Place to Work A Great Place for Wellbeing A Great Place for Women
Birmingham-based Embark Learning Care Academy and Fairway Healthcare have been recognised among the UK’s Best Workplaces in Healthcare™ 2025, securing the national award. The accolade, part of the prestigious Great Place to Work® programme, celebrates organisations that demonstrate outstanding culture and employee experience.
With 91% of employees saying it is a great place to work, compared to 54% at a typical UK company, the award recognises the positive working environment at both Fairway and Embark.
From their Birmingham base, Embark Learning Care Academy trains over 1,200 people each year to enter the health and social care sector with confidence. In partnership, Fairway Healthcare supports more than 250 local care providers, collectively delivering over 250,000 hours of care activity annually. Together, they help address critical workforce challenges, adding more than one million hours of capacity to the sector each year.
Expert advice, helping social care clients to reduce agency spend.
Fairway Healthcare provide recruitment and training strategies for the future, offering extensive agency reduction options and alternatives, assisting with small medium and large scale bespoke recruitment campaigns with guaranteed outcomes.
With many decades of experience, Fairway Healthcare are at the forefront of modern innovative programmes designed to find, develop and integrate generation 2.0 of the health and social care workforce.
Fairway Healthcare and the Embark Learning Care Academy have forged a strong and unique partnership with game changing wrap around services designed to maximise recruitment starts, retention and sustainability providing care managers and decision makers with huge time and efficiency savings.
We do things differently...
Recruiting health and social care staff, fishing from the same diminishing pond as everyone else, and simply recruiting many who are on the healthcare merry go round is expensive, time consuming and ultimately doomed to failure. There is a reason that retention rates are so poor, time spent on recruitment is increasing and the costs, hidden and otherwise spiral. Fairway Healthcare in partnership with the Embark Learning Care Academy have focussed on finding and developing the health and social care professionals of the future. Over 3000 individuals have come through the academy in the last 4 years alone, fully qualified, fully compliant, motivated and focussed on a long term career, resulting in dedicated, care professionals fully mouldable with no bad habits or poor practice.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of madness!
For too long, care providers have used old fashioned traditional recruitment methods in an ever more competitive market with an ever-decreasing number of candidates. With record levels of people leaving the sector, the need for a fresh approach has never been more necessary.
- Fairway are...
- Focusing on the next generation of health and social care professionals.
- Developing vocational social care professionals, not economic carers.
Fairway Healthcare have a self-grown workforce with over 98% of our staff holding formal care qualifications, over 150 staff currently working on their level 2 or 3 Diploma and more than 1000 Care professionals coming through the unique Step in to Care programme in 2025.
Fairway Healthcare and Embark Learning Care Academy will be developing and preparing over 1500 new health and social care professionals in 2025-2026. Fully trained, qualified and motivated to deliver high quality social care.
Fairway are proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work in 2025, alongside this prestigious recognition, we are also delighted to be recognised as a Regional Winner for Work Force development in the 2024 Great British Care Awards and Finalists at the National Great British Awards in 2025. This follows on from being regional finalists and winners at the 2023 Great British Care Awards.
A focus on quality not quantity.
A recruitment and Training specialist working with care providers of all sizes to assist in money saving programmes to improve the workforce, recruit dedicated and motivated care professionals and to drive up retention and sustained employment outcomes meaning huge savings on agency cost and usage.
Fairway Healthcare are dedicated to eradicating bums on seats, shift filling agencies, guiding Care providers to the new modern approach to health and social care recruitment and retention.
Recruit. Retain. Sustain.
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