Nurse-led clinical staffing for nursing homes

Clinical staffing assurance for nursing homes across the South West.

Capegold Care is a nurse-led healthcare staffing agency based in Taunton and Bridgwater, supplying fully vetted nurses, healthcare assistants, senior care staff and chefs to nursing homes across the South West.

  • Nurse-led clinical standards on every placement
  • Every worker fully vetted before they set foot on your floor
  • 24/7 on-call, answered by someone who can act

Need cover in the next 24 hours?

Call us. Our on-call line is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Prefer to write it down? Use the staff request form and choose urgent temporary cover. Forms are monitored in business hours.

People first. Always.

  • 24/7 On-call, every day of the year
  • 100% Workers vetted before placement
  • Nurse-led Clinical standards set by a nurse
  • South West Rooted in the South West
What we do

Built around nursing home rotas


Our focus is nursing homes, and the clinical and care staff a nursing home rota depends on. We are an employment business and employment agency: we recruit, vet and supply the people, your organisation directs and manages the care. We take on a small set of things and do them properly, rather than everything at once.

Temporary staffing

Last-minute sickness, sudden vacancies and planned block bookings. Registered nurses, healthcare assistants, senior care staff and chefs, filled from a vetted pool rather than a cold list.

Permanent recruitment

Introductions for substantive posts, from care staff to registered nurses and clinical leads. We shortlist against your job description and your culture, not against a target.

Specialist staffing

Mental health, complex care, learning disabilities and autism. Staff matched on experience with the specific presentation and the specific setting, briefed before they arrive.

Live-in care recruitment for registered providers

We recruit and supply experienced live-in care staff to registered home care and live-in care providers. Your organisation directs and manages the care. We deliver dependable, fully vetted staff ready to join your service.

Care-home chefs

Trained, care-experienced chefs for care and nursing homes. Food safety, allergen awareness and IDDSI texture modified diets, with at least six months of hands-on, on-the-job experience in a care home or NHS hospital. Book a chef.

For nursing home managers

Not ready to request staff yet?


Start smaller. Ask for the rate card, see a sample compliance profile, or read our supplier due diligence.

Request the rate card

Sent on request, generated from the workbook that prices every booking.

Request the rate card

See a sample profile

The worker compliance profile we issue before every placement, as a client-safe sample.

See a sample profile

Supplier due diligence

Company details, insurance, DBS, training and terms on one page, with a PDF to download.

Read the pack
Ready when your rota is not

Answered any hour of any day

Sickness at six in the morning or a resignation at midnight: call us on Landline 01823 212 811, Mobile 07460 246 863, Text 07576 577 935 and we arrange cover, not a voicemail.

Request staff
Why Capegold Care

Standards you can evidence to an inspector


Nurse-led from the top

Our clinical standards are set and reviewed by a registered nurse, not by a sales desk. That shapes who we accept onto our books, how we assess competence and how we escalate a concern.

Every worker fully vetted

Enhanced DBS. Two verified references. Right to work confirmed. Training completed, with practical competencies observed rather than self-declared. No shortcuts when the rota is tight.

24/7 on-call that answers

A 3am call gets a decision: we look at the pool, arrange cover and call you back. Our client terms commit us to it, and we hold ourselves to a four-hour cancellation courtesy in both directions.

Local presence, real relationships

We are based in Taunton and Bridgwater and work closely with services across the South West. You get a named contact who knows your service, not a call centre queue.

Who we work with

Services that cannot afford an empty shift


We supply across a broad range of health and social care settings in England. If your service is not on this list, ask us anyway.

  • Nursing homes
  • Residential care homes
  • Hospitals
  • Community services
  • Supported living
  • Learning disability services
  • Mental health services
  • Complex care providers
  • Live-in care providers
How it works

Simple for you, thorough behind the scenes


Tell us what you need

Call the on-call line or send the staff request form. Role, setting, dates, anything the worker should know before arriving.

We match and brief

We put forward vetted workers whose experience fits your setting, and we brief them properly. You confirm who you want.

They arrive ready

Compliance is already in place and available for your file. Timesheets, invoicing and any issue go through one named contact.

For healthcare professionals

Work that fits around your life


We are a small agency that treats people like people. You choose your shifts, you get paid on time, and you speak to someone who knows your name.

  • Weekday, weekend, night and sleep-in shifts across the South West
  • Free training with practical competencies signed off properly
  • A named consultant, not a rota-bot
  • Straightforward pay, paid weekly

You will need at least three months' paid experience in a healthcare setting and two referees who can confirm it.

Care you would want for your own family

People first. Always!

Whether you are covering a shift tonight or building a team for next year, start with a conversation.