The Jewish Care charity has been named as one of the country’s best places to work at this year’s ‘Employer Brand’ staff management awards.

It took the Gold in the ‘charity’ category and Silver for ‘healthcare and pharmaceutical’.

“We support our 1,300 staff in the same way as the people we care for,” Jewish Care’s chief executive Daniel Carmel-Brown said.

“It’s a challenging time to recruit staff for the daily round-the-clock care in the community. But we keep staff at a higher average rate than the care sector generally.”

This reduces the cost of having to fill in with temporary agency workers which gives greater consistency in community care, the charity points out. The London Living Wage is guaranteed for its frontline workers.

Staff are recruited from all faiths, backgrounds and many nationalities, to care for 12,000 people each week across London and the South East.

They run services for older people including Holocaust survivors, providing social connection in a Jewish environment.

The charity also runs residential, dementia and mental health care, as well as retirement schemes, meals-on-wheels, community support groups and community hubs like the Head Room befriending café social enterprise in Golders Green.