It is important to create a positive culture in a care home. Here Maxine Parry, Managing Director of Caresolve, has put together her tips and advice to help the registered managers of care homes to create and maintain a positive culture. Set out clearly what your expectations are as a manager. Don’t take it for granted that they know what you expect. Listen to what your staff are saying, and ask them what they think will help improve things. Explain to staff if actions are not taken. There is nothing more toxic than a workplace ...
Caresolve shortlisted for industry award
We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for an industry award. Caresolve is a finalist in The Social Care Premier Supplier Awards in the Consultancies Category. A panel of independent judges headed up by Professor Martin Green, CEO at Care England, will now choose the category winners. The award will be given to a consultancy providing ‘exceptional services’ and ‘bespoke solutions’ to the social care sector to enable care providers to develop their business including quality, training and development and crisis management. ...
New Managing Director for Caresolve
Maxine Parry We are delighted to announce that Maxine Parry has been promoted to Managing Director of Caresolve after being with the company for seven years. We have also recruited a number of new people to join our team in the North West as we support, guide and mentor care home managers and providers in order to ensure the highest standards of quality care are achieved and maintained. Maxine said: “I’m delighted to be appointed as the MD of Caresolve. We’re extremely busy in the aftermath of the Covid 19 pandemic helping care...
How we’re helping care homes to emerge stronger from the pandemic
Care homes have faced huge challenges during the last 15 months as the Coronavirus has affected all of our lives. And homes continue to face hurdles as we start to emerge from the pandemic, with the question of how to build back better occupying the minds of many care home operators. At Caresolve, we are working with a growing number of care home operators to come back stronger as we emerge from Covid-19. Now is not the time to be at all complacent. Even if staff have been vaccinated, we need to keep stringent health and hygiene mea...
Caresolve helping care homes to recover from impact of Covid-19
Care home operators need to consider taking a series of measures in order to recover from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Many homes have been severely impacted over the past 12 months and are now seeking ways to drive new enquiries and occupancy levels. Maxine Parry, Regional Director of Caresolve, one of the UK’s leading care home consultancies, which is headquartered in Warrington, said that trust will be a vital part of any new strategy. She said: “One of the big challenges for homes during the pandemic was coping with...
Care homes at risk of prosecution if they fall foul of Covid-19 infection control checks
Care home operators are “under pressure like never before” trying to meet the many challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has resumed its regular rating inspections as well as separate infection prevention and control inspections. Failure to meet the requirements of the infection prevention and control inspections could, in the most serious cases, lead to a care home owner or operator being prosecuted. The rigorous inspections scrutinise a range of areas including use of PPE, testing, the safet...
Maxine Parry appointed Regional Director of Caresolve
We're delighted to announce the appointment of our new regional director. Maxine Parry joined the company as a Senior Consultant in 2016. She is now responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of Caresolve. Caresolve was established in 2011 by experienced care sector professionals Ben Challinor and James Parkin. Richard Shore joined as Finance Director in 2016. Caresolve has been extremely busy during the Covid-19 pandemic, providing strategic and operational support to care home operators and their investors. The compan...
Caresolve in Caring Times
Caresolve's co-founder James Parkin appears in the new issue of Caring Times talking about why nurses should aspire to a career in care. There are more than 49,000 nurses working in social care in the UK and we believe that there has actually never been a better time for nurses to make a difference to patients' lives. Here is a link to the article which can be found on Page 30 of the July/August 2018 issue of the magazine https://www.careinfo.org/CTpdfs/CT0718.pdf ...
Why nurses should aspire to a career in care
The care sector has arguably, for many years, been seen as an unattractive, even ‘second hand’, career for nurses. With reports that nurses in the care sector earn an average of £3,000 less than their NHS counterparts, and a perception that it is impossible to get out once you start work in it, it is no wonder that the sector struggles to attract and retain staff. We’ve spoken to many NHS nurses who are bogged down in paperwork, bound by punitive targets and under ridiculous amounts of stress. When they first did their training, mo...
The importance of recruiting effectively in the care sector
It has never been more important to recruit effectively in the care sector, says care home specialist Caresolve. James Parkin, Co-founder and Operations Director of Caresolve, says many care homes find it difficult to find – and keep - high quality care staff whether that’s registered manager, senior carers or ancillary staff. He says: “It is a common problem around the country because demand for good quality staff far outweighs supply at present in the care home sector. “It means that it has never been more essential to retain...