So today marks the 10-year anniversary of Vicky walking in to the Living room, interrupting my Call Of Duty marathon, flinging a laptop at me and forcing me to help her with her then new venture of Health & Social Care Jobs!!!   To set the scene………. I was recovering from Spinal Surgery to fuse my back and was coming to the end of a 12 month rehabilitation period, Vicky had s...

40 is the new 30!  50 is the new 40! 60 is the new 50 and 70 is the new 60!  What has inspired me to write this article is the number of people we get calling our office daily, who are not ready to retire, and want to make a difference in their local community and say "Am I too old".  When I was a Registered Manager my oldest Care Assistant was 75!   Our message is you are "...

Vicky’ Inspiration……………….. This is story is about my Aunty Christine, she suffered appalling abuse in a Nursing Home and is one of the main reasons I enjoy my job, playing my part in ensuring the very best care is delivered by working hard to match the ideal candidates with their ideal employer and setting.   Christine lived at home for most of her life with my Grandma and G...

I wanted to personally update our customers of a few changes here at Health and Social Care Jobs but first and most importantly, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your incredible support over the past year.  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought huge challenges to many businesses, but I am proud to say that with your support and a lot of hard work and dedica...

Arranging my Gran's Care 2020 has been an awful year for so many people and for so many reasons, for me this was compounded by having to do the hardest thing I have ever had to do, namely organising care for my 98-year-old gran.  My grandad was my hero and died far too young, but I think about him every day – I often hear him giving me a talking to in my ear when I am strugg...

The year is 2020 and I’m not sure many of us have experienced a year as sad, bizarre, scary, confusing, and potentially as lonely as this one. Yes, people have suffered hardships around the world throughout my lifetime and for generations before ours, but realistically you never really understand until you are in the middle yourself. My worries have mainly been family and ou...