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Associated Press
2 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
How Home Care Specialists Are Leading Sector Innovation By Investing in Workforce Skills and Training
06/10/2025, Worcester WR2 4AY // PRODIGY: Feature Story // Severn Vale Home Care, a locally owned independent home care specialist operating in Worcester, Malvern, and the surrounding areas, has become a multi-award-winning sector leader. The team notes that much of this is down to the passion, skill, and kindness of its care professionals. The company has demonstrated how focusing on values-based recruitment, investing in workforces and providing real routes to career progression have bucked national trends, with staff recruitment and retention rates that stand out as substantially above the norms. Today, Severn Vale Home Care has shared some insights into why it believes the future of home care innovation is all about nurturing home care professionals and why investing in staff and providing generous benefits, salaries, and perks has proven transformative in the local home care space. The Severn Vale Home Care Approach to Recruiting Home Care Professionals Perhaps the easiest way to clarify our staffing philosophy is to explain why we exist. Although home care is one of the fastest-growing commercial sectors in the UK, it's also a profession founded on compassion, respect, and dignity. Our mission is to ensure that every client and family can stay happy and safe at home without struggling to find help, worrying about declining mobility, or feeling resigned to relocating into a residential care setting if this isn't what the individual or their loved ones want. That means several things: We need care professionals our community can trust who have the right training and skills to deliver the support and care our clients need. Our role is to make life better for the most vulnerable within our community. It makes sense that we pay above-average salaries, celebrate the achievements and dedication of our care professionals, and recognise talent, ambition, and progress. This leads directly back to meeting those overarching aims, and it is one of many reasons we've been delighted to be recognised as a home care provider of choice. While we often speak with qualified and experienced care professionals looking for more rewarding careers, we also regularly recruit candidates new to home care who have the character, values, warmth, and demeanour we know we would wish our loved ones to be treated with in a time of need, uncertainty, or distress. How We Attract Top Talent to Our Worcester Home Care Team The long-standing challenges affecting huge proportions of the social care sector and home care space are well publicised. They include severe issues with staffing shortages, droves of qualified carers leaving the profession, and a perception that home care is an environment where care professionals work incredibly hard for minimal pay. Our goal is to change every aspect of that situation, and we regard home care as a service we are privileged to offer. We install this ethos into all of our teams, who are reliable, dedicated, and recognise the enormous value they bring to the communities we serve. For many home care agencies, staffing shortages mean their capacity is limited, or they end up in an unenviable position with stretched resources, which has an impact on the quality of care and can, in the worst cases, lead to poorer outcomes and a lack of financial viability as home care clients simply turn elsewhere. Therefore, putting together appealing, rewarding, and stable career opportunities isn't just a way to welcome amazing candidates who are passionate about joining our team; it provides continuity and the peace of mind that every care client will always have the support they need when they need it. Severn Vale Home Care offers generous rates of pay, a workplace pension scheme, paid mileage between visiting care appointments, funded training opportunities, mentoring from our wonderful senior care professionals, and support to help care professionals study for formal qualifications. Our care professionals are also entitled to a full 28 days of paid holiday a year, pro-rata'd for part-time team members, and can opt to study for a Level 2 or 3 QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, depending on their current expertise and certifications. That translates into a supported, happy, and engaged team where our professionals love their jobs, are valued and acknowledged in their place of work, and have ongoing pathways to gain new skills, accreditations, and certifications that they can use to become more senior or specialist professionals. What to Expect as a Care Professional Applying for a Role With Severn Vale Home Care The starting point for current or aspiring care professionals keen to be part of our team is to review our online application form, which sets out some of the typical shift patterns available and the flexibility of being able to apply for full or part-time positions. You'll find details of our pay rates, holiday entitlements, and mileage allowances and can also share some insights to help us match you with a suitable role where possible, including your availability to work shift patterns, current care experience, and hobbies and interests. The latter matters because it's always a great opportunity to match care recipients and families with care professionals who share their passions. This helps to develop lasting relationships where clients and their care professionals have hobbies in common. We'll also ask you to describe what outstanding care means to you, which ensures we invite candidates to interview who we know would be a great fit for our value-based care approach and who are willing to engage in professional training and mentoring to round out their skills and care qualifications where necessary. Read more about Severn Vale Home Care - Family-Owned Severn Vale Home Care Showcases How Value-Based Care Drives Success With Triple Award Win About Severn Vale Home Care Severn Vale Home Care is a leading home care provider dedicated to delivering compassionate, personalised care services across the Worcester, Malvern and Hereford, and surrounding areas. Source published by Submit Press Release >> How Home Care Specialists Are Leading Sector Innovation By Investing in Workforce Skills and Training
Associated Press
20-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Family-Owned Severn Vale Home Care Showcases How Value-Based Care Drives Success With Triple Award Win
05/20/2025, Worcester WR2 4AY // PRODIGY: Feature Story // Severn Vale Home Care, a local team of home care professionals supporting families throughout Worcester and Malvern, is celebrating a remarkable achievement. It has been presented with three separate awards in recognition of its standards, contributions, and commitment to excellence. The company scooped a hat trick of awards, including Most Supportive Personal and Complex Care Specialists 2024, awarded at the GHP Social Care Awards, Home Care Business of the Year Worcestershire at the SME News Seventh Annual UK Enterprise Awards, and Home Healthcare Provider of the Year at the Innovation & Excellence Awards 2024. The Background of Severn Vale Home Care's Community-Focused Care Services Severn Vale was established in 2020 and is a private, family-owned home care service that delivers varied at-home support, from visiting and domiciliary care to extended live-in and specialist care for individuals, couples, and families. Owner Stuart Callister established the organisation after returning home to the local area. He aspired to create a home care company that would embody his family values, use this as a foundation to create meaningful career paths for care professionals, and ensure that care recipients would be guaranteed good living standards. Drawing together a team with over 35 years of home care experience, Severn Vale concentrates on delivering personalised solutions, getting to know each person or family, understanding their priorities, routines, and needs, and then structuring the care support provided accordingly. The fact that the home care organisation was so recently established makes its achievements even more impressive. It demonstrates that the values-based leadership and family values built into care delivery aren't only beneficial and valued by care recipients, but have also made a marked impact on the quality and accessibility of at-home care services in the local area. Severn Vale Home Care's care services are designed to reflect its values. An informal, friendly initial chat ensures local families can access the support they need to make complex care decisions. This is followed by in-person home visits, during which they can ask questions, discuss how their ideal care would look, and make supported decisions about the best way forward. Seven Vale Home Care's Recently Awarded Accolades Each of the three awards is designed to acknowledge and recognise home care providers who go above and beyond, and lead the sector in their dedication to adaptable, flexible home care support that makes a real difference to quality of life. Severn Value Home Care was nominated and selected for each award based on its standing as a highly reputable home care provider with excellent review ratings, personalised care planning, and introduction of app-based log and records. These ensure that families and management can access care logs on demand to check the tasks completed or care delivered. This is a vital tool for those reliant on care professionals to look after vulnerable loved ones or who live further afield and want to play an active role in supporting a care recipient. Celebrating Care Excellence After Triple Award Win Stuart Callister, Founding Director of Severn Vale Home Care said, ' We are absolutely thrilled with the successes and achievements of our teams and care professionals, and to be celebrated through these prestigious awards ceremonies that embody our reputation and focus on high-quality, supportive and compassionate care. Our enormous thanks to every care professional who represents Severn Value in the best possible way every day and to our clients and families who continue to trust us to ensure their well-being, comfort, and happiness are always in great hands. Going forward, we will continue to concentrate our efforts on adding value to the Worcester and Malvern communities and ensuring we maintain the enthusiasm, commitment, and spirit of dedication that have been instrumental in securing these three awards. The three awards were celebrated in both the local and national press, with award nominees, finalists, and winners also announced through each of the respective awarding bodies. Read more about Severn Vale Home Care - Severn Vale Home Care Cements its Position as a Sector Leader With GHP Social Care Award About Severn Vale Home Care Severn Vale Home Care is a leading home care provider dedicated to delivering compassionate, personalised care services across the Worcester, Malvern and Hereford, and surrounding areas. Media Contact: Stuart Callister 01905 950409 Source published by Submit Press Release >> Family-Owned Severn Vale Home Care Showcases How Value-Based Care Drives Success With Triple Award Win
Associated Press
04-04-2025
- Health
- Associated Press
Severn Vale Home Care Cements its Position as a Sector Leader With GHP Social Care Award
04/03/2025, Worcester WR2 4AY // PRODIGY: Feature Story // A home care team serving clients and communities in Worcester, Malvern and the surrounding areas, Severn Vale Home Care, has celebrated resounding success after being named the winner of the Global Health & Pharma (GHP) award for Most Supportive Personal & Complex Care Specialists 2024 – West Midlands. Founded in 2020, this accolade is the latest in multiple high-profile awards received by the family-owned and operated business. It demonstrates how value-based, compassionate, and community-focused care is a recipe for rapid success. The Importance of the GHP Social Care Awards in the Home Care Space The GHP Social Care Awards are a prestigious and widely recognised mark of quality across the social care sector. They seek to reward, acknowledge, and celebrate companies and firms that represent the best in standards, dedication, hard work, and invaluable assistance to vulnerable people and those in critical need of support. As part of the nomination and selection process, GHP invites people and third parties to submit suggestions. Every submission is evaluated by social care professionals to assess the nominees' achievements and quality, ensuring an objective, fair, and impartial process. Severn Vale Home Care was nominated, finalised, and selected as the overall winner for the Most Supportive Personal & Complex Care Specialists 2024 in the region. This highly competitive accolade is decided by a judging panel comprising academic leaders and sector experts. This particular award reflects the company's philosophy, which concentrates its efforts on ensuring that all older people and families throughout the local communities in Worcester and Malvern are supported, never left to struggle and feel safe, secure, and happy in the comfort of their homes. The award is designed to celebrate care specialists who set the standard for providing personalised, flexible and appropriate care for people with complex care needs or health concerns and who do so in a way that embraces respect, compassion, dignity and self-advocacy. Reflecting on Severn Vale Home Care's Success at the GHP Social Care Awards Stuart Callister, Founding Director of Severn Vale Home Care said, ' We were delighted to be nominated and recognised in this most prestigious of awards, and particularly in a category that encapsulates all we seek to do, and the value and comfort we bring to countless people throughout the areas we serve. Specialist and complex care is a diverse field, and we are immensely proud of our exceptional Care Professionals who never fail to go the extra mile, ensuring that people and families with potentially very complex care needs benefit from kindness, friendship and warmth as much as the practical and health-related assistance they may need. It is fundamental that people who are potentially managing multiple challenges concerning their health, mental welfare, emotional well-being, and physical capabilities receive dedicated assistance. We step in to help wherever we can, from coordinating care visits and ongoing in-home help with other professionals to ensuring we maintain regular contact with loved ones. When Severn Vale was founded in 2020, our ambition was to provide a local care service that would provide perfect solutions for every single person and every older individual who requires sensitive help to stay safe and happy at home. We are very grateful for both the nomination and the privilege of being selected as the award winner by the GHP panel. The Background of the Multi-Award-Winning Severn Vale Home Care Team Severn Vale Home Care has achieved a remarkable amount in just five years. It was founded by Stuart Callister, who decided to move back to Malvern, his home town, and find a way to give back to the local community based on the values taught by his parents. From regular visiting and live-in home care to specialist care services, the company has established an outstanding reputation not only for quality and standards but also for the sensitive, personalised, and gentle approach it takes, from discussing care needs for older people to ensuring Care Professionals have stable, rewarding, and meaningful careers. Alongside the GHP Social Care Award, Severn Vale has also been recognised by multiple other organisations, including being named Home Healthcare Provider of the Year in the Innovation & Excellence Awards 2024 and Home Care Business of the Year 2024 in the Worcestershire category at the SME News Seventh Annual UK Enterprise Awards. Media Contact: 01905 950409
