Staff profiles

Partner / Manager of CARE4YOU

Julie Cummings – Julie trained as a registered nurse at the Leighton Hospital in Crewe in 1979. At the end of her training Julie was awarded the Elderly Medicine Award, following her training she decided to specialise in elderly care.

Having worked in acute hospital settings, care home management and community care for over 28 years, and sitting on many boards and steering groups as well as having an ENB N35 – Management in private healthcare sector.

She is passionate about training the CARE4YOU team in their NVQs for care.

Chairman of the Cheshire Consortium in Partnership with Chester County Council, a member of the steering group for work force development in Cheshire, as well as a member of the learning resource network.

Julie's vision for the future where everyone can remain in their own homes given independence and choice. Supported by CARE4YOU.

Her CARE4YOU team deliver a holistic approach to living at home with a friendly reliable service based on your care needs.

You can contact Julie directly on: Julie.Cummings@care-4-you.org

Office Manager

Sally Greenway – Sally joined CARE4YOU in June 2007 to help with filing. A natural organiser by nature Sally is now the office manager.

Sally has NVQ 2 and NVQ 3 (care), A1 and A2 assessors award as a manual handling trainer.

Sally cared for an elderly aunt before she comes to work and has a growing family . She can relate to our clients needs.

Learning and Development Manager

Samantha Olubodun - Samantha joined the CARE4YOU in January 07 initially as an NVQ Assessor, however as the organisation has continued to grow, the need for a Training Manager was recognised, and she accepted the post of Learning and Development Manager in September 07.

With a career in Health and Social Care spanning 18 years, she initially trained as a Registered Nurse at Liverpool John Moores University, and pursued a career in Elderly Care up to Senior Management Level.

Her professional qualifications include a BA Degree in Community Healthcare Studies, Diploma in Management and Diploma in Nursing Studies, in addition to a number of training qualifications including an NVQ Assessor Award, Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Nursing Practice, Facilitating Learning through Demonstration and Instruction and Enabling Individual Learning through Coaching.

She is responsible for ongoing staff development and delivery of a structured programme of health and social care training for the CARE4YOU team.

Team Leaders

Working closely with the Care Co-ordinator, and Training manager our team leaders are responsible for the day to day management of the support workers to ensure that they are fully briefed on the customers needs. The team leaders are responsible for the preparation of the individual support plans these are produced in conjunction with our customers and are designed to ensure that the care provided is bespoke to the individual.

As you would expect the care industry is highly regulated, and a key function of our team leaders is regular customer and staff reviews.

Our Support Workers

All our support workers are carefully selected and we invite our service users to help with the recruitment process. Those who receive our home care service are the best at staff selection. All our staff are put through a training programme and personal development schedule within CARE4YOU, they undergo a minimum foundation training of 8 weeks which includes manual handling, infection control, and person centred care, then progress to NVQ levels 2 and 3 in care.