Local business owner Ed Gill has launched a brand new home care service covering York, Thirsk and Ryedale under the award-winning Radfield Home Care franchise.
The service specialises in delivering person-centred, quality-focused care to older people living in their own homes and will be recruiting dozens of care professionals over the coming months.
Clients from York to Pickering, Easingwold to Malton and Pickering to Thirsk will benefit from companionship, care and support services – ranging from day trips, support getting washed and ready for the day ahead and specialist dementia and palliative services.
Radfield Home Care York, Thirsk & Ryedale director, Ed Gill, who spent many years working for the organisation’s national office, said: “I have worked with multiple home care businesses, and I have always felt there was a need for an organisation with a real focus on employee-wellbeing. Care Professionals are some of the hardest working, passionate and loyal people I have come across and all too often, they are undervalued and underappreciated. As a result, this has a huge impact on the quality of care clients receive – after all, how can we expect Care Professionals to support our clients if we don’t support them?
“I want to change that here in York, Thirsk and rural Ryedale. I want to support our clients to remain connected to their local communities, their identities and their sense of purpose, and to achieve that we must empower and support our Care Professionals. They will receive great rates of pay well above the Real Living Wage; ongoing training, support and personal development; and genuine reward and recognition for their hard work.”
Radfield Home Care York will pay all Care Professionals £11 per hour for time spent with clients, as well as £11 per hour for travel time, plus mileage allowance for every mile travelled between clients. Staff will also receive an MOT test every year and ongoing bonus structures.
For more information, call 01904 530 118 or email york@radfieldhomecare.co.uk. Alternatively, you can visit www.radfieldhomecare.co.uk/york.
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