Home Care a Different Way

You cannot open a newspaper or switch on the television without hearing something about the care industry. It’s not generally good news, themes usually centre around the lack of cash in the sector, poor standards of care or poorly treated staff existing on minimum wage and zero hour contracts.  There is seldom a good news story that makes it to the front pages where the care industry is concerned.

Then comes along Right at Home. This newly established domiciliary care company (providing care in client’s own home) make the ambitious boast that they are different and say they plan to change the way care is offered and how employees in the industry are treated.

Directors James Levine and Jonathan Beckett explain.  ‘Our background was in the retail sector, we had a business of 6 mobile phone shops throughout the Northwest employing over 50 staff.  When we entered the care industry we were shocked to discover the majority of care staff were only paid the minimum wage and existed on a zero-hour contract. People told us that finding and keeping good care staff was difficult, we would always reply ‘I’m not surprised!’, James and Jonathan continue ‘We will always pay our staff not just above the minimum wage but above the living wage, we believe if you want to deliver the very best levels of care, then you need the best team and to have the best team you need to award them appropriately.  We also don’t agree with zero hour contracts, so we are committed to offering our best care givers permanent fixed hour contracts, we want to keep our best people so we can offer continuity of care.  We want our staff to feel proud of what they do, they are out in our community looking after people in need, how many other people can say they have made such a difference at the end of their working day?’