Home Instead Senior Care
Since Home Instead’s formation in 1994, their aim has always been to enhance the lives of ageing adults and to help their families deliver the best quality home care possible.
Years awarded: 2016, 2019
Region: North West England
Size: 1000+ employees
Sector: Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
Developing staff to manage challenging situations
Theme: Upskilling
This leading care provider upskilled its CAREGivers in order to help them deliver exceptional end of life care and support their client families effectively. The programme provided the personal skills and resilience needed and CAREGivers are better equipped to deal with stressful and emotional situations. There has also been a 4% reduction in attrition since the programme began.
Training over 20,000 in dementia care
Themes: Upskilling
Topics: Bespoke training
An example of how a care provider has addressed a significant current need through training. As well as providing dementia training to staff, the organisation began to offer shorter courses to clients’ families and community groups with outcomes including business growth and increased client satisfaction.
News and case studies featuring Home Instead Senior Care:
3 creative ways to support good mental health at work
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In the press: The power of celebration – driving change with the Princess Royal Training Awards
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Case study: Home Instead Senior Care and the power of skills development to transform people’s lives
Home Instead Senior Care provides tailor-made, flexible care at home for the elderly to enable everybody to live independently at home regardless of their age. Training is at the heart of Home Instead’s strategy as their CAREGivers need to constantly adapt to the needs of their clients. This film follows CAREGiver Emma and provides insights from the L&D leads who design and deliver the training in the UK and also offers the perspective of a family member on the positive impact that highly skilled CAREGivers can have. Home Instead received a Princess Royal Training Award in 2016 for the outstanding dementia care training and were recognised again in 2019 for a new end-of-life care training programme.
Leading with purpose – lessons from UK businesses
It’s easy for a company to plaster its purpose on the wall. It’s much harder to embed that purpose in staff. So how do companies do it? Leaders from some of the UK’s most purpose-driven companies gathered in October to share their experiences. The panel was part of...
In the press: Home care provider’s end of life training programme gets royal approval
Home Instead Senior Care is celebrating after being awarded a Princess Royal Training Award for its workplace learning at a ceremony held at St James’s Palace in London. HRH Princess Anne talking to Martin Jones, chief executive of Home Instead Senior CareThe...
In the press: Home care company awarded for its end of life care
A HOME care company is celebrating after winning an award for the essential end of life training it provides to caregivers. Home Instead Senior Care, whose national office is based in Stretton, picked up the award at a prestigious ceremony in London as part of the...
Royal recognition for 44 UK organisations delivering outstanding workplace training
From leading banking groups to local businesses and charities, HRH Princess Royal and the City & Guilds Group recognise inspirational employers for their commitment to learning and development. London, 31st October 2019 – 44 UK organisations including IBM, The...
The Princess Royal and City & Guilds Group honour outstanding workplace training in 2019
HRH Princess Anne, President of City & Guilds Group, recognises 44 organisations with 2019 Princess Royal Training Awards Recipients shared compelling, irrefutable evidence of how training has directly influenced business results Multiple winners across areas...
Case study: the impact of royal recognition on Home Instead Senior Care
The Princess Royal Training Awards is a new honour for employers in the UK who have created outstanding training and skills development programmes which have resulted in exceptional commercial benefits. Home Instead Senior Care UK is one of the recipients from the inaugural year in 2016.
