Care home chain nurses ambition to boost staff

Prestige Nursing + Care, which has an office in Doncaster and Wakefield but provides care across West and South Yorkshire, wants to recruit staff to provide home-based personal care and support services to the elderly and people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, dementia, terminal illnesses, acquired brain injury and spinal injuries.

It is also looking for trained nurses, to work on a full or part-time basis for organisations that regularly need agency staff, such as care homes, respite centres, hospitals, learning disability units and community based projects.

Prestige Nursing + Care, which forecasts a turnover of £900,000 by the end of 2013, said that it will create at least 50 jobs in the area over the next six months, but that the figure is likely to be closer to 100. The business, which opened in 2009, employs 92 staff.

MD Mike Dooley said: “With a national drive by the Government to keep people in their homes for as long as possible we are seeing an increased demand for our services, so we now need to recruit the staff to allow us to meet this demand.

“We can meet the needs of all client groups, whether that is an elderly person just requiring an hour’s worth of companionship once a week, through to providing 24-hour-a-day nursing care to someone with very complex needs.”

The company said demand had increased as people were given control over their care budgets.