To oversee the interviewing of, selection of and statutory checks on prospective new care support staff.

To head a care co-ordination team managing a large base of care support staff to support service users with a wide range of needs. Applicants must possess knowledge of the care sector, interpersonal and management skills and good IT skills.

Managing careworkers providing care support services. Some knowledge of care work preferred. Excellent interpersonal skills essential.

To supervise and assist in the development of careworkers, thereby ensuring and maintaining service standards

January 2011

City & County Healthcare complete Belfast deal

City & County Healthcare Group Ltd, one of the UK’s largest domiciliary care businesses, has expanded its coverage with the acquisition of Belfast-based domiciliary care business Quality Care Services (QCS).

QCS is the leading domiciliary care provider in Belfast, servicing contracts outsourced by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. The business was started in 1994 and currently delivers approximately 4,600 hours per week of care, mostly to elderly people in their own homes. It has two branches, one for each of the Belfast ‘commissioning areas’ of South & East, and North & West. Both have excellent ratings from the RQIA, the care inspectorate for Northern Ireland.

QCS will continue to be run on a day-to-day basis by their experienced General Manager, Fred Sweetlove. Mr Sweetlove will work alongside City & County’s team, headed by CEO Craig Rushton, to operationally integrate the businesses and continue to grow the regional client base.

Sovereign Capital-owned City & County Healthcare Group has expanded significantly in the past year, both through organic growth and acquisitions. It has opened three new branches, in Brentford, Enfield and Bournemouth, and bought two healthcare businesses – Sterling Homecare in April 2010 and Guardian Homecare UK in September of the same year.

City & County Healthcare Group chief executive Craig Rushton said: “We believe the scale of the business and opportunity of the marketplace make Quality Care Services an attractive bolt-on for City & County Healthcare Group. It consolidates our existing presence and establishes critical mass in Northern Ireland, following our acquisition of Guardian Homecare in September 2010.

“One of the biggest attractions of the Belfast and Northern Ireland markets is that currently only around half of the province’s annual domiciliary care spend is outsourced to the private sector, compared to over 80 per cent in England.”

For more information visit www.candchealthcare.co.uk.

London Care has launched a new sister company, Custom Care, to reflect its continued expansion and its increasing presence outside the capital.

Since it was established in 1995, London Care has grown rapidly, providing home-based care services across the Southeast, East Anglia and the West Midlands.

The company’s services outside the London area will now operate under the Custom Care brand, with both backed up by a comprehensive re-branding with new websites and other marketing materials providing enhanced information on the services provided by both firms.

London Care moved into its new headquarters in Wembley in July 2010. The new offices provide the company with a professional corporate suite and all the facilities it needs to continue its ongoing expansion and success.

The team previously known as ‘regional’ are now based at Olympic House in Wembley, from where they will oversee the operations of London Care and sister company Custom Care across the South East, East Anglia and the West Midlands. It is planned for the Finance department, currently located in Borough High Street, to relocate to the new offices in the next few months.

London Care was established in 1995 and now provides some 37,000 hours of care every week to thousands of people of all ages and needs in their own homes.

Specialist care provider London Care is looking forward to supporting children and young people in the Enfield area after being selected to provide home care and home sitting services on behalf of the local council.

London Care has secured inclusion on Enfield Council’s Select List for Home Care and Home Sitting Services for Disabled Children and Young People for the next two years after successfully meeting the borough’s tough criteria on skills, experience and resources.

There are around 150 children and young people likely to use the services of providers on the Select List and individual parents will make the decision on whether to call on London Care’s services. Many of the children and young people are profoundly disabled, with complex health needs.

London Care will provide home care, which includes some personal care, in family homes. The service is usually provided for a time-limited period, around a time of transition such as the birth of a baby, surgery or a significant change in a child’s behaviour.

Home sitting support will provide care and support for children, and often their siblings, at home so that family members can go out on errands or for other activities, secure in the knowledge that their children are being appropriately and well looked after.

Max Wurr, London Care’s Head of Policy and Contracting, said, “The service will aim to improve a family’s ability to live well with their disabled child and to ensure that both the children and their families feel safe and happy with our careworkers. Our approach is holistic, supporting the whole family.

“In the long-term, it is hoped that our support will help disabled children to acquire skills that will enable them to live more independently, both as children and then as adults. The service will also serve a crucial role in offering respite to parents and other carers.”

London Care’s inclusion on the Select List follows its securing of a three-year service contract with Enfield Council last month to provide personal care to around 350 residents in the Enfield Highway, Enfield Lock, Jubilee, Lower Edmonton, Ponders End and Turkey Street wards of the borough.

Specialist care provider London Care is looking forward to supporting children and young people in the Enfield area after being selected to provide home care and home sitting services on behalf of the local council.

London Care has secured inclusion on Enfield Council’s Select List for Home Care and Home Sitting Services for Disabled Children and Young People for the next two years after successfully meeting the borough’s tough criteria on skills, experience and resources.

There are around 150 children and young people likely to use the services of providers on the Select List and individual parents will make the decision on whether to call on London Care’s services. Many of the children and young people are profoundly disabled, with complex health needs.

London Care will provide home care, which includes some personal care, in family homes. The service is usually provided for a time-limited period, around a time of transition such as the birth of a baby, surgery or a significant change in a child’s behaviour.

Home sitting support will provide care and support for children, and often their siblings, at home so that family members can go out on errands or for other activities, secure in the knowledge that their children are being appropriately and well looked after.

Max Wurr, London Care’s Head of Policy and Contracting, said, “The service will aim to improve a family’s ability to live well with their disabled child and to ensure that both the children and their families feel safe and happy with our careworkers. Our approach is holistic, supporting the whole family.

“In the long-term, it is hoped that our support will help disabled children to acquire skills that will enable them to live more independently, both as children and then as adults. The service will also serve a crucial role in offering respite to parents and other carers.”

London Care’s inclusion on the Select List follows its securing of a three-year service contract with Enfield Council last month to provide personal care to around 350 residents in the Enfield Highway, Enfield Lock, Jubilee, Lower Edmonton, Ponders End and Turkey Street wards of the borough.