Recruiting a person-centred workforce
A free, fast, research-informed resource to support values-based recruitment.
The Curious about Care quiz is a tool designed to help you find the best candidates for care roles.
The quiz is based on real-life care situations, and relate to different features of person-centred care.
How it works
Step one
Create your quiz
Provide your details and choose the scenarios you wish to use. Three scenarios are chosen for you, but you may add any number of others.
Generate a unique link to send to your candidates. This link will be sent to your email address.
Step two
Invite applicants
Email the link to the candidate(s). They will access the quiz, entering brief details to allow you to identify them later.
Step three
The quiz
The applicant completes the quiz, making decisions based on the scenarios you selected.
Step four
Review results
You will receive a short report giving a ‘traffic-light’ recommendation based on their results. You will also see their answers, which you might discuss with them at interview or induction.
Scenarios
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Lázsló
Lázsló, a friendly gentleman who has memory troubles, is in a café. He starts talking to people who he thinks he knows, but they do not know him, leaving them confused.
Miss Holtby
Miss Holtby enjoys baking, but has been unable to do so after a fall, and has lost a lot of confidence. She now feels she has recovered, although you are not sure. At the end of the care worker’s visit, Miss Holtby says she will start baking.
Stephen
Stephen has already got himself dressed, and wants to sit and have a natter with the care worker. However, a family member objects, saying the care worker is not paid to drink tea.
Optional
Ken
Ken is a gentleman who “lives life to the full”. He has diabetes. He wants the care worker to order an (unhealthy) meal from a takeaway.
Mrs Haddow
Mrs Haddow loves to knit, but her arthritis is causing her pain, and she is struggling to finish her scarf. This is getting her down.
Lloyd
Lloyd is a ‘people person’, and is supported to help address his loneliness. One day, Lloyd notices that the care worker is not their usual self, and asks if there is anything the matter.
Mr Singh
The care worker overhears Mr Singh talking with a friend, and referring to the care worker as “being like a servant”.
Derek
Derek accuses the care worker of stealing some biscuits, although it turns out he has just misplaced them.
Vera
Vera has quite advanced dementia. She is someone who has always taken pride in her smart appearance. She is in need of a bath, and her personal hygiene is suffering. However, she refuses to have a bath because she is enjoying being with “her baby” (a doll).
Mrs Gupta
Mrs Gupta is very angry that the care worker has brought a beef sandwich into her home for lunch. She believes her religious views have been disrespected.
Margaret
Margaret lives alone after being widowed, and has advanced dementia. The care worker arrives and finds Margaret searching for her deceased husband, wondering where he is.
