Category: Business Stories

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

As an organisation, Augusta Care has a strong equality & diversity policy, that no only protects sets out protection for all our staff and service users, but also promotes equality to all regardless of gender, race (including colour, nationality or ethnic origin), disability, sexual orientation, marital status, age, religion or belief.

“The Company is committed to providing a working environment in which employees are able to realise their full potential and to contribute to its business success irrespective of their gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, part time status, age, religion or belief.  The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings. This is a key employment value to which all employees are expected to give their support.“

Care spotlight – Mary Seacole – The pioneer of convalescent care

Mary Seacole was born to a Jamaican mother and Scottish father in 1805, and is widely considered to be the world’s first nurse practitioner. Growing up in the Caribbean she studied herbal medicines, and travelled to Britain to offer her services at the start of the Crimean war.

At the war office she was met with prejudice due to her gender and heritage, and was told she wasn’t needed. Undefeated, Mary travelled to Balaklava herself, and set up her own refuge for injured and sick soldiers called the ‘British Hotel’.

She was also known to go to the battlefield – risking her life to tend to the wounded.

After the war she returned home to nothing. To show their gratitude for her bravery and compassion, service men organised a money-raising gala for Mary in London, attended by over 80,000 people, including royalty.

Our Head Office team decided to pull together and make a donation to the Peterborough FoodBank instead of operating a Secret Santa again for Christmas 2022. We’ve just received confirmation that the funds have been received and are now being put to good use.

From everyone at Augusta Care we wish all our service users, staff, suppliers and professional contacts a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The office will close in the afternoon on Friday 23rd December for the Christmas period and will re-open on Wednesday 28th December at 9am. The office will then close again at 5pm on Friday 30th December for the New Year period and re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023 at 9am for business as usual.

If you require emergency assistance during our closures, please call the office on 01733 233725 and choose option 1 at the menu to be connected to a member of on-call.

Augusta Care’s training has had it’s Skills for Care endorsement renewed for another year. The endorsement is a bespoke quality mark given to the best learning and development providers within the adult social care sector.

At Augusta Care, all of our staff receive a minimum of 1 week in our training room with our Training Manager to receive their mandatory induction training, followed by any other specific and specialised training that may be required. We believe this gives our new starters the best possible start with the company and we’re very proud to have received yet further positive feedback this past week.

We always welcome feedback following our inductions and training sessions. This week Haleem, a new support worker with Augusta Care provided some incredibly positive and valuable feedback on his induction training. We wish you a happy and successful career with us Haleem.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
– ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
– communicating and promoting vacancies
– offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
– anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
– supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
– at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

Registration No DCS032819

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently inspected Augusta Care and we are incredibly proud to announce we continue to be rated GOOD.

The service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support, right care, right culture.
Right support: The support provided by staff focused on ensuring people had choice, control and were encouraged to be as independent as possible.
Right care: People were treated as individuals and the support provided by staff promoted their privacy,
dignity and human rights. Staff understood their responsibilities to respect people’s human rights, including their right to privacy, confidentiality and to promote their independence.
Right culture: The registered manager, and support staff, all displayed values which prioritised supporting people to live confident, inclusive and empowered lives.

Our Group Operations Manager, Heather Broderick thanked the entire Augusta Care staff team:

Sincere thanks to you all for working as a team to aid our compliance, let’s all keep up the excellent work and strive for an outstanding next time. Well done team, I feel very fortunate to be part of the Augusta care team ?

To read the full report, visit: https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/reports/763f7bab-a683-46b9-b7f6-5caf5f709a8f?20220601120000