Home Instead Exeter & East Devon becomes main sponsor of Honiton Nub News

Honiton Nub News is excited to announce that Home Instead – Exeter & East Devon has become our main sponsor.

This new partnership will help Nub News to produce the latest news and opinion from the heart of our town.

A well established and highly respected independent UK home care provider, Home Instead Senior Care – Exeter & East Devon, is part of a worldwide organisation devoted to providing the highest-quality care for older people in the comfort of their own homes. They offer a wide range of one-to-one services tailor made to the needs of the individual - and home visits can be from an hour a day up to 24 -7 care that includes weekends and holidays. They have also recently started a Live In Care service as a cost effective alternative to a good care home for those wishing to stay in their own homes.

Established in East Devon in 2011, Home Instead – Exeter & East Devon currently provides employment for around 120 local people and there are plans afoot to employ a further 100 staff over the next 12 months including Honiton and surrounding areas.

Home Instead Senior Care supports clients living throughout the Exeter and East Devon area in all aspects of home help, meal support and preparation, personal care, memory care, medication and companionship. Their highly trained, professional staff visit for a minimum of 1 hour up to 24 hours including overnight support. Staff have specialist training in long-term conditions support, including Parkinson's, Dementia, frailty and falls, elderly nutrition, medication support, personal care, continence support and palliative care.

Home Instead East Devon's Managing Director Mark McGlade sat down with Nub News to explain more about the quality care provided by Home Instead and the new partnership with Honiton Nub News, he said: "Our mission is to become the care provider of choice and the care employer of choice in the local area. Our CAREGivers and our office support staff are the most important assets we have, so selecting kind, compassionate and caring people to join our company and then offering the best training and support has enabled us to build an amazing team, delivering the best care possible".

"The support we provide our clients is very person-centred. We match our Clients with CAREGivers based on interests, and life experiences and well as care needs and wishes to build trusted relationships. We don't wear uniforms, as they can often be a barrier to developing those relationships. We do, however, wear appropriate PPE and keeping our clients and CAREGivers safe is paramount. Companionship is at the heart of our care and we support our clients with care good enough for our own Mum or Dad and no visit is less than an hour.

"Through carefully matching our professionally trained CAREGivers with clients, Home Instead are able to do things 'with' clients rather than 'for' them, thereby enabling and encouraging independence at home along with promoting confidence and wellbeing".

In their most recent CQC inspection, the Health & Care Regulators found Home Instead Senior Care – Exeter & East Devon services to be Outstanding in all five areas of enquiry. They are the first home care provider in the South West to have received this highest endorsement (5 Star Outstanding) by the regulator.

Speaking about the Home Instead - Exeter & East Devon service, Debbie Westhead, CQC Interim Chief Inspector, Adult Social Care, said: "The quality of care which our inspectors found here was exceptional and I am very pleased that we can celebrate the service's achievements."

The CQC also highlighted Home Instead – Exeter & East Devon as an example of best practice in innovation of care in their CQC Annual State of Care Report.

With regards to the partnership with Nub News, Mark McGlade continued: "We like the community centred ethos of Nub News. It's those stories which show a community's heart and soul which resonate with us. We also like the emphasis on good news stories.

"There is so much good news in our communities and all too often the national media sensationalises things and highlights the negatives in society. We like Nub News' mission to provide news from the heart of their communities and like them, we work very hard to be leaders in our field, not just followers."

Nub News CEO, Karl Hancock, said: "I'm proud and honoured to have Home Instead sponsoring Honiton Nub News and we look forward to a long partnership. Like us, they really care about the community and about the personal touch. They are a big employer in the area and one of our 10 principles is to support local businesses."

If you are interested in joining the Home Instead team here in East Devon click here to find out more.

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