

"Employee referral app transforming social care recruitment through trusted recommendations"
Care Friends is an employee referral app built for the social care sector. The platform enables care workers and foster carers to refer trusted contacts for open roles through their mobile phones, turning word of mouth hiring into a scalable recruitment channel. Staff earn rewards at each referral step, keeping them motivated and engaged. The app addresses a critical challenge. Finding and retaining quality care workers has always been difficult, and traditional recruitment methods consistently underperform compared to personal recommendations. Care Friends automates referrals while maintaining the human connection that makes these hires effective. Organisations report five times more referrals and 50 percent lower first year attrition.


16
Team Members
2018
Founded
Digital Health
Sector
Hybrid
Work Environment
A care sector where every organisation harnesses the full power of trusted referrals, creating sustainable staffing through the connections and trust of existing care professionals.
At Care Friends, our mission is to transform social care recruitment by empowering care workers to refer trusted contacts, turning word of mouth into the sector's strongest hiring channel.