Thanking our volunteers

1-7 June is national Volunteers Week and we wanted to thank the volunteers who come and make a difference to our clients’ lives, in any way they can.

Here at City & County Healthcare Group we have many volunteers who come and help out at our branches and sites across the country. Volunteers often help out at our centres, assisting with activities and events.

Our teams are well connected with local communities and volunteers have helped out with visits from local musicians, the emergency services, running bingo competitions, summer fetes and much more.

We also wanted to highlight the great volunteering work of one of our branch managers – Amanda Lowe.

Not only does Amanda hold a busy job as Branch Manager at our company Comfort Call, managing six extra care schemes in Manchester, but she also finds the time to volunteer for Age UK as a ‘Friend of Age UK’.

When asked about her volunteering efforts, Amanda said, “I have been volunteering and phoning a lady once a week, for half an hour. The lady has no family, she never had children and her husband passed away. We chat each week about her hobbies, knitting, and crocheting.

She enjoys our chats. The first week she was a little shy and conversation was hard but once we started talking about her hobbies she was fine and conversation flowed and she found it easy to talk to me. She doesn’t have anybody apart from me.”

Thank you to Amanda for sharing her volunteering experience.

Have you visited our new careers website?

We recently announced the launch of our new careers and recruitment portal, cch.careers, after many months of hard work and development.

Bringing together vacancies from across the CCH group of businesses, the brand new site offers a user-friendly portal for searching and applying to vacancies across the organisation, from the latest care assistant roles to back office and management positions.

Along with that, the website features a host of helpful, informative content on what it means to be a care assistant, working within the sector, guides, life at City & County and more, with a blog coming in a few months’ time that will showcase care assistant stories, insights, resources and a better view into the world of domiciliary care at CCH.

Take a look, explore the site, and check out the range of job opportunities available!

“Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus” – Happy St David’s Day

Today is St David’s Day – a very important date in the Welsh calendar – so we’d like to wish all our Welsh colleagues a “Very Happy St David’s Day”.

A special message from Sally Haskayne – Regional Director:

Sally Haskayne is our Regional Director for Wales and the South:

“Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus – Happy St David’s Day. I would like to say a massive thankyou to all our Welsh branch teams and care workers. Our branches in Wales are doing a fantastic job looking after the most vulnerable in our communities and have worked extremely hard throughout the winter. We appreciate everything you are doing delivering much-needed care services across Wales. Thank you again for everything you are doing to make a difference to people’s lives.”

A role model in Wales:

Did you know?

Our current Care Worker of the Year (from City & County’s Care Heroes Awards 2022) – Leanne Gardiner – is based in Wales.

Leanne is a fantastic role model and example of the great work being done by our care worker staff across Wales.

What is St David’s Day?

St David is the patron Saint of Wales, and he is celebrated annually on the 1st of March.

On St David’s Day Welsh people around the world wear one or both of Wales’s national emblems – a daffodil and a leek. Daffodils are the national flower of Wales and it is believed that St David was a vegetarian and lived mainly on a diet of leeks.

Special concerts and traditional parades are held all around Wales in St David’s honour, including the National St David’s Day Parade in the centre of Cardiff.

Thanking our Scottish branches on Burns Night

Today (25th of January) is Burns Night in Scotland, so we’d like to wish our colleagues in Scotland “a very Happy Burns Night” and say thank you for all the great work they are doing.

Wendy McCall, our City & County Regional Director for the North, Northern Ireland & Scotland said:

“I would like to say a massive thank you to all our Scotland-based branch teams and care workers. Our branches there are making lots of good progress on systems  and projects. Thank you also to our frontline care workers who have been battling through the cold and snowy weather to deliver fantastic services across Scotland. We appreciate everything you are doing.”

Burns Night celebrates the life and work of world-famous poet Robert Burns, known as the national Bard in Scotland. The Night is often celebrated with a traditional Burns supper with people getting together to eat, celebrate and even recite Burns’s poetry!

Our City & County companies operating in Scotland currently include: Constance Care, SCRT, Mochridhe, North East Community Care.

So, thank you to all our colleagues in Scotland, and we hope you all have a wonderful time celebrating!