Highland Home Carers (HHC) will move to new £1.5 million headquarters at Inverness Shopping Park with custom-built training academy
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Social care provider Highland Home Carers (HHC) has made an investment of more than £1.5 million in a new headquarters in Inverness that includes a custom-built training academy with state-of-the-art facilities, equipment and high-calibre trainers.
Officials involved claim it positions the company as the sector leader for social care training in Scotland.
The new facility at Inverness Shopping Park will revolutionise both how HHC delivers care and looks after its care and support practitioners. The two-storey premises gives the company the platform to transform and modernise practices in the social care sector using the latest digital technology.
The move from leased premises in Stadium Road will be vital in helping HHC fulfil its vision of rolling out safe, high quality, resilient models of social care to vulnerable people across the Highlands in partnership with NHS Highland.
Already Scotland’s largest employee-owned organisation, a Care Academy will seek to improve the working lives of the adult social care workforce through its innovative Care for a Career support, learning and development programme.
HHC managing director Campbell Mair said: “Being able to create a bespoke headquarters for the first time is a game-changer for the company, helping us improve the working lives of our workforce as well as the scope and reach of adult social care we provide across the region.
“Highland Home Carers already delivers more than 1,000,000 episodes of vital care in our communities every year. What is without doubt the biggest single investment in the company’s history will significantly strengthen our ability to improve on this and continue our progress in effecting social change.”
The care and support provided to vulnerable adults by HHC – delivered in partnership with NHS Highland – positively impacts the lives of thousands of families and makes essential contributions within the local health economy, reducing hospital activity, occupied bed days, delayed discharges, and unscheduled care activity.
Louise Bussell, a chief officer at NHS Highland, said: “On behalf of NHS Highland I wish to commend the exciting developments being taken forward by our valued partners Highland Home Carers. The provision of adult social care is so important to our communities.
“Growing our workforce of valued colleagues as well as developing innovative practices for the future are essential and we therefore very much welcome these exciting plans.”
Inverness MP Drew Hendry said: “These are undoubtedly challenging times for the adult care sector as we face a cost-of-living crisis and grapple with staffing challenges.
“This move will allow the team to develop a new Care Academy to facilitate the training and development of people looking to choose care as a career – which is excellent news for the Highlands.”
