Trio join head office team at Corinium in Nailsworth

Three new members of staff have strengthened the head office team at live-in care agency Corinium Care in Nailsworth.
Becky Cornock, 33, joins as Recruitment Co-Ordinator. Brought up in Rodborough and a former pupil of Stroud High School, she has spent more than nine years in recruitment in both the NHS and private sector.
Peter Levett, 50, is a former police officer who takes on the role of Administrative Assistant. After 10 years in the Armed Forces and 23 years with the Royal Household Protection Group, the live-in care industry is a totally new direction.

Becky, Peter and Bronwyn

“I thought if I was going to do something different, it should be totally different. It’s opened my eyes to a whole new world,” he said.
Bronwyn Bentley, 42, is the company’s new Accounts Assistant. Born in South Africa, she came to the UK in 2007 and joined Corinium Care as a live-in carer.
“I know what a great company it is to work for, so when an opportunity came to join the head office team, I jumped at the chance,” she said.
Managing Director Clare Janik welcomed all three members of staff to the team. “It’s been a year of enormous structural change at Corinium Care and I’m sure that Bronwen, Peter and Becky will provide invaluable back-up as we continue to stride forward,” she said.

Corinium scores a double in finals of top award

Corinium Care is delighted to announce a double accolade in the Gloucestershire Women in Business Awards 2015.
The company is a finalist in the Business of the Year category, and Managing Director Clare Janik, makes the shortlist as Woman of the Year.
 The awards shine the spotlight on excellence and highlight the female entrepreneurs who are championing the county’s business scene.
Editor of the Citizen, Jenny Eastwood, said: “It’s a testament to the level of talent that it was such a hard job judging.”
The accolade comes at the end of an extraordinary year for Corinium in which Clare led the company 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 maintains 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.
She thanked her team for their support throughout the transition. “It’s been an amazing year and, as always, the terrific team spirit and endless pursuit of excellence has helped take the company forward. All our staff and carers have been brilliant and we couldn’t have done it without them.”
The winners in the Women in Business Awards 2015 will be announced at a dinner at Cheltenham Racecourse on Wednesday May 6.

 

Let’s show the CQC how outstanding our care service is

Corinium Care is preparing to welcome inspectors from the Care Quality Commission, now that the company has been successfully registered.
The CQC is the inspectorate body which ensures that health and social care providers are providing the best possible service to their clients.
Managing Director Clare Janik has been briefing staff and carers about the procedure that lies ahead.
“As well as talking to the head office team and checking our records, part of the inspection process involves them talking to clients and carers,” she explained.
“CQC will inspect on five key elements: Is the service safe? Is the service responsive? Is the service effective? Is the service well-led? Is the service caring?
“There are a number of ways these questions can be answered and we have to provide the evidence to demonstrate how. For example: is the service caring – we can demonstrate that each client is individually assessed by a fully-trained care manager who discusses the client’s care needs and preferences with either the client themselves or with their representative.
“This information is recorded in the client’s care plan available to the client or their representative. The care plan is then given to care workers before their placement so the care worker is fully aware of the client’s needs and lifestyle choices before the assignment commences.
“The care plan is reviewed and updated as changes occur either by care workers sending us a ‘Changes to care’ report form or by the care manager conducting a further review.
“Care managers revisit their clients at least once a year or more often if the client’s condition changes. At all times the client’s choices are shown to be respected and their consent must be given to any care provided. If a client does not consent, eg, to personal care, this must be recorded and if it becomes an ongoing problem then the care manager should be notified.
“You can see from this small example that we all play a part in ensuring our service is caring. And the same goes for the other elements of our service which inspectors place under the spotlight.
“Once we have been inspected, the CQC will write a report and rate our service on each key element plus give us an overall rating. The rating range is Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement and Unsatisfactory.
“I’m sure you would agree, we would all want to achieve a rating of outstanding!”

Managing Director Clare nominated for top award

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.

Laura becomes our Senior Care Manager

Laura Graham has been promoted to Senior Care Manager with Corinium Care.
Laura joined the company in 2009 as Assistant Care Manager. She now heads up the Care Management team.

Her appointment follows a year of major change for the company, based in Nailsworth.
“Corinium Care has undergone a total restructure of how our service is provided. One of my key roles was to ensure that the impact on our clients was kept to a minimum during that changeover period,” said Laura.
“Our live-in care workers are now directly engaged by us which means we are even better placed to support them and provide them with our care expertise, which in turn will guarantee the best possible care for our clients.”
Glasgow born and bred, Laura spent 12 years working with adults with learning disabilities in Scotland. Before joining Corinium Care, she spent a year working at Marling School in Stroud.
Managing Director of Corinium Care, Clare Janik, congratulated Laura on her promotion. “The live-in care business is forever changing and Laura’s experience will be a great asset as we take the company forward,” she said.

Corinium registered with Care Quality Commission

We are delighted to announce that Corinium Care has been accepted for registration with the Care Quality Commission.
The company’s Managing Director, Clare Janik, is also approved as a registered care manager.
The CQC is the UK’s independent health and adult social care regulator. Its job is to make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourages them to improve.

It monitors, inspects and regulates services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and publishes its findings, including performance ratings, to help people choose care.
MD of Corinium Care, Clare Janik, said being registered with the CQC was central to the company’s mission to offer excellence at every level.
“We pride ourselves on our standards of care and on the importance we place on offering our clients dignity, compassion and peace of mind at a very vulnerable time.
“We therefore welcome having the back-up of the CQC to corroborate what we know to be our strengths,” she said.
The live-in care agency, based in George Street, Nailsworth, was founded in 1995. It specialises in providing 24-hour live-in care for the elderly and infirm. It has 17 staff in Nailsworth, and 800 registered carers on its books as well as recruitment offices in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
It has won a string of awards for excellence. The most recent was the Customer Care and Service Award in the Stroud Life Business Awards in 2014.

It all adds up - Ziggy joins accounts team

A big welcome to Ziggy Edwards who joins Corinium Care as our new Accounts Assistant.
Having worked in HR and finance for seven years, she takes up a new role alongside Corinium’s Director of Finances Rachel Dedman.
Born and brought up in Wales, Ziggy left school at 18 and spent many years working abroad in places as far flung as Australia and as small as Alderney in the Channel Islands.
She gained her Association of Accounting Technicians qualifications in 2007 after studying part-time for three years.

Since then, Ziggy has been a finance assistant for Ceredigion Council in Aberystwyth. Whilst working for the council, she was also a casual support worker for adults with learning difficulties for nearly two years.
Her move to Corinium Care coincides with a move to Stonehouse with her partner.
“It’s great here – both busy and relaxed at the same time and I’m dealing with people as well as with numbers,” she said. “It’s quite different from working for a local authority.”
Managing Director Clare Janik welcomed Ziggy to Corinium Care’s head office in Nailsworth.
"She takes on a new role at Corinium and hit the ground running. Her knowledge of payroll, finance and HR is an invaluable addition to our skills base at a time when the pace of change in our industry is breathtaking,” she said.