Managing Director of Corinium Care, Clare Janik, has been nominated for a top honour in the Gloucestershire Women in Business Awards.
The award for Businesswoman of the Year will go to someone who has made ‘a significant personal contribution to the success of their company’.
Clare joined Corinium Care in 2003 as Care Manager and rose to become Director of Care Services in 2010 before taking over as Managing Director in 2013.
She admits to having been a rebel at school, and a renegade in her early career. At the age of 39 she was a single mother, bringing up two small children and working as a dinner lady.
Her days of rebellion ended when she joined Corinium Care when it had just five members of staff. She has been part and parcel of the company’s expansion and played a pivotal role in it becoming one of the leading care agencies in the UK with 17 staff in Nailsworth, 800 registered carers and recruitment offices in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
In 2014 Clare led Corinium Care through the biggest change since its formation in 1995: the transfer of more than 300 self-employed live-in care workers on to the company payroll as salaried staff.
The aim: to make sure that Corinium Care maintained its position as one of the leaders in the live-in care market, raising the bar and setting exemplary standards.
It was a seismic shift in the way the company operates and Clare led from the front, doing her utmost to keep staff, carers and clients on board throughout.
Married to a jazz singer, she also found time in 2014 to climb Ben Nevis by night to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Her many roles in the last 22 years have covered every aspect of the business – training, recruitment, care manager, liaising with clients, marketing and leadership.
In 2013 she went on a fact-finding mission to South Africa and headed up a recruitment drive in person. The finalists in the Women in Business Awards 2015 will be announced after March 6.
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