Corinium Care is staging a major recruitment drive in Ireland for the first time.
The agency will host six seminars all over the Republic, seeking live-in carers for the company’s elderly and disabled clients.
“In the current economic uncertainty we’re aware that working in England might appeal to people who want a new start in life,” said Managing Director Camilla Miles.
The company, based in Gloucestershire, is one of the leading care agencies in Britain. It has 15 staff and more than 800 registered carers from Britain and abroad. It has recruitment offices in South Africa, Zimbabwe and New Zealand.
This is its first attempt to seek carers from Ireland.
“Our business has quadrupled in the past ten years and our search for suitable carers has been relentless,” said Camilla, who founded Corinium Care in 1995.
“The reason for that growth is linked to the growth of the elderly population in the UK. At the same time, more people are choosing to remain in their own homes with a live-in carer,” said Camilla.
The agency provides 24-hour care for elderly and disabled people in their own homes.
The seminars take place from November 20-26 in Dublin (November 20), Wexford (November 22), Cork (November 23), and Limerick (November 25), and Galway (November 26).
In charge will be Corinium Care’s Director of Operations Amanda Butler and Director of Care Services Clare Armstrong who will give presentations on what the role of a live-in carer involves.
“We hope to speak to people who have considered starting a career in live-in care but are wary of taking the plunge,” said Amanda.
She added that carers tend to be women aged 45-60 whose children have left home. They don’t need any experience but must have an EU passport or be eligible to work in the UK. “For many it’s a new start and a new lease of life,” she said.
Corinium Care has an award-winning training programme, and was rated ‘Excellent’ in 2010 by the UK’s Care Quality Commission.