A new agency, based in Welshpool, aims to provide temporary staff to nursing and residential care homes across Wales.
Celtic Care Company, which is headed by Dr Gwenllian Hughes, who has 25 years’ experience in the social care sector, had originally intended to provide its professional services to Mid and North Wales.
However, demand from the sector persuaded Dr Hughes to expand the services across the whole of Wales.
She is currently recruiting nursing and care staff from Wales and is keen to to hear from potential clients who require quality temporary staff.
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She said: “I have launched the Celtic Care Company because, having worked in the private care sector for 25 years, I have seen big gaps in the services, standards can be variable and there is most certainly a shortage of high quality carers.
“Furthermore, regulations vary in the different nations of the UK. A one-size-fits-all service simply doesn’t work.
“We have built the Celtic Care Company to offer a service which reflects the needs of Wales and, above all, the needs of its people. I want to ensure, wherever possible, that we provide staff from the surrounding community to homes, making it easier for residents to relate to them.
“To ensure that our high standards are maintained, we shall, by arrangement with the home, be making unannounced drop in visits to nursing and residential care homes to check how our staff are getting on.”
Having a disability herself, as a result of a series of operations during childhood, Dr Hughes is also encouraging applications from people with health related disabilities.
She added: “I want to know what they can do, rather than what they can’t do.”
Due to heavy demand in parts of the country where the Welsh language is used widely, the Celtic Care Company is particularly keen to recruit Welsh speaking staff who can easily relate to the elderly people they are caring for.
Dr Hughes is looking to recruit from every part of Wales, with the goal of supplying nursing and care homes with staff living in the surrounding communities.
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