Live in Care in Wigston

Hi I'm Mary, the Branch Manager at Helping Hands Wigston. I feel honoured to be heading up this new branch and cannot wait to have a passionate & dynamic team of both office and care staff alongside me to support people in our local community whatever their needs may be. I am responsible for the smooth operation of day-to-day business as well mentoring new carers and meeting with potential customers to establish their support needs. I am extremely passionate about the services we provide at Helping Hands and strive for excellence. As a team, we are continuously looking to improve in every way possible. I am also driven to better myself and progress my own knowledge and experiences throughout my career.

In my spare time, I like to travel and see new places, weekends away, meals out and spending time with my family and friends.

My role as Area Care Manager is to oversee the Central region, ensuring that new branches are set up safely and are providing a quality service to customers, and ensuring that branch care managers feel supported in their roles to do this.
I started in care 20+ years ago as a care worker whilst studying at university. This was to gain experience in a customer-facing role and because I have a passion for caring for people with various disabilities. After finishing university, I continued in the care sector as I enjoyed supporting people to live their way in their own home. I worked my way up to a care coordinator, registered care manager and then managing multiple sites as a director of services.

I took on the role at Helping Hands as head of care as their values align with me, the main one being KINDNESS. At Helping Hands, we believe in providing a quality, safe and effective service to our customers and recruiting the best talent to enable us to do this. Just like the customer, we value our staff by being flexible for them and providing them with extensive training to do their role and progress within the organisation; as head of care, this makes me proud to work here!
I champion dignity in care and believe that everyone should be treated with dignity - this is a basic human right and not an added extra.

As the Divisional Director, it is my role to lead a hugely skilled care team operating in London, Essex and the South East, ensuring the highest levels of care are being delivered to our customers on a daily basis. We have a large branch network equipped to deal with all your hourly care needs, and I am also the Registered Manager with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for our live-in program, where we are set up to support you on a more permanent basis.

I am inspired on a daily basis by the true lengths my colleagues go to, to ensure that customers can continue to live long, healthy lives from the comfort of their own homes. This is one of the main reasons that inspired me to join care.