The achievements and development of our people is important to us and we are delighted to share that currently 14% of our Care team are working towards nationally recognised qualifications. Once Carers have been with us six months we will support and train them to achieve qualifications such as Adult Care Worker Level 2 [...]
Meet our Carer of the Year 2019, Connor Swainston-Hunt from our Leicester branch. Connor won Carer of the Year 2019, for his outstanding service to everyone that he cares for. Connor joined the Prestige Nursing + Care senior leaders in October at the Sodexo Global Homecare Senior Leadership Conference in Atlanta, along [...]
Fiona Williams joins the business from Four Seasons Health Care, where she was managing director for the South East for two years. Before that, she was the group director of Operations at Bluebird Care and a non-executive director for United Kingdom Homecare Association. Commenting on her new role, Williams said: “I’m thrilled to be [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care businesses, has appointed Belinda Berkeley as Managing Director. Belinda joins from The Good Care Group where she was Managing Director. She replaces Jonathan Bruce, who has been appointed as CEO of Sodexo UK Homecare. As part of her [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care agencies, has officially opened its new branch in Taunton. Situated on the High Street, the new office is managed by Chris Hayes with a team of three. The new office covers care for Taunton and the surrounding area, [...]
People often ask, ‘what’s a typical day in the life of a carer?’ To be honest there is no such thing, and that is why the job role is so exciting, so varied and so interesting. There is a huge opportunity to positively impact the lives of the people that we’re caring for. At [...]
At Prestige we understand families effected by young onset dementia or a rare type of dementia may face specific challenges. Our Admiral Nurse is available to offer advice and information to people living with dementia, their carers, families and friends. We are affiliated to the Rare Dementia Support UK (RDS) www.raredementiasupport.org RDS is a UK based [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care agencies, is to host two sessions at the upcoming Residential and Home Care Show. Jonathan Bruce, Managing Director at Prestige Nursing + Care, will discuss domiciliary care and the future of the market. Additionally, Sue Jones, Admiral Nurse [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care agencies, has received an overall ‘Outstanding’ Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating for its Plymouth branch. The Prestige Nursing + Care branch in Crownhill, Plymouth was rated as outstanding for the way the service is led, and for the level [...]
Years of inadequate funding for social care were inevitably going to have consequences. A combination of reduced funding and higher staff costs, following the ‘living wage’ increase have put profitability under severe strain across the care sector. As a result, care providers are beginning to hand back contracts, with 57% of local authorities experiencing this within the [...]
