CareTech

22/07/2025

Today we want to shine a light on one of our amazing homes located in Hemel Hempsted.

Westbrook House is a wheelchair friendly service supporting adults with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Epilepsy and Autism

Situated on a quiet residential street, the home has 8 bedrooms, spacious communal areas, accessible bathrooms and showers as well as a lift and private gardens.

Westbrook is a very friendly and homely service with a well-established and dedicated staff team that provide 24 hour support, it also has its own adapted mini-bus for days out and taking residents to appointments.

Westbrook truly embodies the five CareTech values of being positive, friendly, empowering, innovative and person-centred in the support and care they provide.

The home is also rated ‘GOOD’ in all areas by CQC.

If you would like any further information or to arrange a visit/ make a referral, please contact:

Daria Bukczynska (Business Development Manager) daria.bukczynska@caretech-uk.com 07776 528066

Westbrook House is a wheelchair friendly service located in Hemel Hempsted, supporting adults with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Epilepsy and...

18/07/2025

CareTech's Bushwood Road Service in the Midlands believe that the spirit of the recent is something that should be celebrated and practiced every month of the year.

Bushwood is a residential care home located in Weoley Castle, Birmingham that supports adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and other health conditions including cerebral palsy and blindness.

The home is extremely active in the local community, supporting many local charities and organisations with a number of fundraising activities. In the past these have included sponsored car washes (whilst dressed as Spiderman) BBQ’s, and on one occasion staff completed a sponsored walk back to the service from Walsall Football Club, equipped with only a bucket to collect donations and sponsorship from the people and businesses they met on their way.

Bushwood Road’s Manager, Karen Neville decided to take it easy on everyone with their latest campaign and staff and residents joined together for a highly successful car boot sale in Halesowen where they raised an impressive £250 for Sands, a charity committed to saving babies lives and supporting bereaved families. A truly worthy cause.

Congratulations to everyone at Bushwood on the success of the car boot sale as well as all the amazing work they do… we’re already looking forward to their next event! 🎉👏🏼

24/06/2025

Talk about extraordinary days every day — we more than care, and this weekend proved just that.

We’re incredibly proud to celebrate The Oakleaf Group, one of our exceptional specialist care services within the CareTech family, for their win in the Complex Care Award at the Stars of Social Care Awards 2025 🌟

And the celebrations didn’t stop there — our very own Kathy Swannell, Director of Oakleaf, was Highly Commended in the Outstanding Director Award category.

These awards are a powerful recognition of the dedication, expertise, and compassion shown by the Oakleaf team in supporting people with complex needs to live full and meaningful lives.

Here’s to the everyday heroes who show up, go above and beyond, and make a lasting difference — day in, day out.

Find out more about Oakleaf here: https://oakleafcare.com/

23/06/2025

We are pleased to invite you to an Open Day at Eversley House, our newly developed specialist supported living service in Stoke-on-Trent. This exciting new development is designed to provide high-quality, person-centred support for individuals with complex needs, in a modern and empowering environment.

Open Day Details:

📅 Wednesday, 25th June 2025
🕙 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Eversley House, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4QG

This is a great opportunity to:

Explore our purpose-built facilities
Meet our experienced team
Learn more about our care model and referral process
Network with fellow professionals over light refreshments

We would be delighted if you could join us, and feel free to share this invitation with colleagues who may be interested.

We look forward to welcoming you to Eversley House.

13/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that we have launched our 10th Annual, CareTech Care Awards!🥳🎉🏆

As always, the Awards are open to all staff across every business in the CareTech family and this is your opportunity to nominate your colleagues for the amazing work they do in ensuring 'Extraordinary Days, Every Day' for the individuals we support as well as the wider business.

Posters with QR codes are already on their way to every service, school and office informing them of this year’s Awards and nominations can be completed by clicking on the link below.

https://www.caretech-uk.com/caretech-care-awards-10th-anniversary

We look forward to reading all your wonderful nominations and celebrating with our amazing winners later in the year 🎉🎉🎉

Nominations are open now until July 31st so please get nominating today.

03/06/2025

This year's CareTech Arts, Crafts & Performance Awards were celebrated in the picturesque grounds of Whittlebury Hall in Towcester on May 20th.

Regional winners from all across the group came together to showcase their wonderful artwork and creative talents with friends, colleagues, staff and residents alike. In total, 183 entries of incredibly high standard were received from across the group, all of which were on display for everyone to see and marvel at first hand.

This year’s theme was “Where Imagination Meets Creativity” and our artists were encouraged to let their imagination run wild and create pieces that moved and inspired them. In addition to receiving traditional Arts & Crafts a new category of “Performance” was added for the first time this year and some moving and inspiring entries were received including singing, dancing and even ice skating!

High tea was served and after much deliberation our national winners were announced 🏆

Adults National Winner Jen Hales - The Chaos & The Care

Children’s National Winner Northampton school - Lady in a Pink Dress

Performance National Winner London Road - The Ice Skater

Huge congratulations to all our regional and national winners and well done to everyone who took part in making this one of our best years yet! 🥳🎉🏆

This year's CareTech Arts, Crafts & Performance Awards were celebrated in the picturesque grounds of Whittlebury Hall in Towcester on May 20th. Regional winn...

22/05/2025

Congratulations to all our regional and national winners of the CareTech Arts, Crafts and Performance Awards 2025 🎉
This year’s theme was “where imagination meets creativity” and our artists were encouraged to let their imagination run wild and create pieces that moved and inspired them.
In addition to receiving traditional Arts & Crafts a new category of “performance” was added for the first time this year and some amazing entries were received including singing, dancing and even ice skating!
The regional winners all came together at Whittlebury Hall on May 20th to celebrate and look at the 183 pieces of Art that was on display. This was also the perfect time to announce our national winners 🏆

Adults National Winner
Jen Hales - The Chaos & The Care

Children’s National Winner
Northampton school - Lady in a Pink Dress

Performance National Winner
London Road - The Ice Skater

Congratulations again and well done to all our winners and everyone who took part 🥳🎉🏆

15/05/2025

VE Day was a cause for celebration and remembrance across the whole country last week, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second World War.
To celebrate the event, The Hollies in Stoke decided to throw an old fashioned street party and commemorate VE day in style.
Special permission to close the road was obtained from the local Council and all the Stoke Services came together to throw a wonderful, celebratory party for all the CareTech services in Stoke and Telford as well as neighbours and the local community. Word went out, invites were sent and everyone was welcome.
In true street party style there was lots of music, singing and dancing as well as endless food and refreshments all in honour of a very important day.
Nasir Quraishi (Group Executive Director for Adults and Specialist Services) commented “It’s great to be here celebrating VE day at The Hollies with all the Services, Service Users and Staff, together they have made it a wonderful day”
Congratulations and well done to everyone involved! 🇬🇧🎉🇬🇧

12/05/2025

Congratulations to our amazing regional winners of this years Arts & Crafts competition 🥳🎉

Thank you to everyone who took part and sent us in their wonderfully creative Arts, Crafts and Performance pieces. The judges had a particularly hard job deciding on this years winners due to the high standard of the entries received, so well done to everyone 👏🏼🎨🖌️

Vouchers are already on their way to everyone who took part and we will announce our overall winner for Adults/ Specialist Services and Children’s Divisions at our annual Arts & Crafts Awards ceremony on May 20th

Thank you again to everyone who took part and helped us in creating

07/05/2025

Celebrating Jon’s 25 Years with CareTech

Jon Plummer joined CareTech in 1999 after spending 22 years serving in the Army. Upon leaving he confesses he had no idea as to what career path he was going to take, he was 40 and “everything was daunting” as he had never known anything other than Army life.

Then, whilst attending a Job Fayre in Folkestone, someone from CareTech Community Services beckoned him over to their stand, he started work with us 2 weeks later and hasn’t looked back since.

Jon clearly took to the Care Sector and CareTech in particular and as CareTech grew in size, Jon progressed and grew with the business. Within 3 years Jon had worked his way up and earned promotion from Support Worker to Senior Support Worker and Senior Support Worker to Deputy Manager. Then after a further 3 years as a Deputy Manager he was promoted to Registered Manager.

Jon’s CareTech journey saw him working in a number of Homes including Kingston, Belmont, Goodwins and Orchard House but he returned to Kingston as Manager in 2007 and this has been his main Home ever since. Over the years Jon has helped transform many of our services across the
country gaining the respect and admiration of colleagues and residents alike. His qualities and hard work as a Manager were also recognised at the 2017 Annual CareTech Care Awards where he was crowned as the Overall National Winner

Over the years Jon has gained great insight into CareTech and the wider Care Sector advising anyone that is thinking of pursuing a career in Care, that “There is a lot of scope to further your career in the Care Sector especially in a large established organisation, even if you are starting at 40yrs of age”.

“Some of the things that make me enjoy working in the Care environment could be deemed as selfish ones, such as, feeling good about myself in helping others to enjoy a better life or the fact that I feel part of a team that cannot function unless it works together and looks after each other. “

“Even with my family around me the most difficult thing I found when I left the army was one of feeling alone and not being part of something. Working in the Care Sector is an employment where working as a team is paramount to succeeding in giving those you support a good life, being part of a good team also gives you a feeling of self-worth”.

We’d like to give a big, heartfelt Thank You to Jon for all the hard work, dedication and support he has given to so many during his time with CareTech and I’m sure you will join us all in wishing him well in his retirement.

Thank You Jon 👏🏼❤️

30/04/2025

Today’s the day the judges have their say! 🎉

All of the Arts, Crafts and Performance pieces we’ve received for this years competition are proudly on display ready for our judges to make their decision!

Well done and a big “Thank You” to everyone from across the whole of the CareTech family for submitting such amazing entries this year… watch this space for more information and of course our Awards ceremony that takes place on May 20th 🏆🎨🎉

23/04/2025

It’s that time of year when we all get to show off the transformation of our gardens and green spaces in the CareTech Blooming Marvellous Competition!

Whether you are doing a complete transformation of your garden area, growing fruit, veg or herbs in order to become more sustainable, starting a window box of wild flowers or maybe cultivating some potted plants, we want to see your before and after pictures plotting your progress and please remember, no project is too big or too small.

We appreciate that not everyone has a large garden area to transform, so this year’s competition is open to include all kinds of projects that vary in size, including:
• Garden transformations
• Creating a vegetable patch
• Growing the biggest sunflower you can
• Growing pumpkins ready for Halloween
• Creating a biodiverse area of wildflowers to encourage wildlife
• Vibrant window boxes
• Potted Plants for around your school, service or centre

Blooming Marvellous posters will be on their way to you shortly and the competition officially launches today. Photographs of all entries must be in by the closing date of September 26th 2025.

The competition is open to all homes, services, schools and day centres across the CareTech/ Cambian group.

Further details and terms and conditions can be found on our website:
https://www.caretech-uk.com/blooming-marvellous-2025

This year’s overall winner will get £500 for their service to spend on their service or garden with two runners up each receiving £250 for their service or garden.

Don’t delay, get growing today!