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Care Professional of The Year

We’re thrilled to announce that our ‘Care Professional Of The Year’ for 2022 is Tamara Robinson! It was an incredibly tough decision choosing the overall winner from our list of three nominees, which included Kate Brown and Tracy Bell (pictured), who would both have been very worthy winners of the award.

Ann-Marie our Director, had the following to say about Tamara:

“Tamara is a committed and enthusiastic member of the team. She has undertaken her level 3 with great tenacity, and we have received brilliant feedback from her tutor. Her clients love her bubbly can-do personality. Tamara makes her clients feel like every moment spent with them is a pleasure, which is the best quality any Care Professional could have.”

Huge congratulations to Tamara, we can’t express enough our thanks for all your incredible work.

She’s pictured here, collecting her certificate from Carol our Care Quality Coordinator!

Take A Seat in 2023

We’ve had a busy start to 2023, with plenty of new businesses wanting to participate in our initiative with City of York Council and Age Friendly York, called ‘Take A Seat’.

The initiative which came about following research conducted by Age Friendly York, in which older residents commented on how they would benefit from additional places to rest their legs and having more toilet facilities available when out and about in our city.

The idea of ‘Take a Seat’ therefore came about. It aims to signpost people to businesses that have a seat or toilet facilities available for use. Those taking part in the initiative display a sticker in their window, indicating whether a seat, facilities or, both are available.

Since the turn of the year, the following business have agreed to agreed to take part and are helping York become more age friendly: Hungate Reading Café

Avorium York

Tullivers

Love Cheese

The Bath House

York Art Gallery

To see a full list of participating businesses, visit our website: https:// www.homeinstead.co.uk/ york/take-a-seat-initiative/