Social Values
Homecarers Social Values
At Homecarers Care Services, we believe it is extremely important to ensure that we are doing all that we can to support not only our staff and service users, but also our local community and the environment. We currently have our Bronze Social Values award and are working towards our Silver Social Values award.
It is our job to ensure that not only are we supporting our staff and service users, but as a domiciliary company, it only makes sense to also provide support to the wider community at the same time.
Our Pledges
We have 7 social values pledges put in place, to ensure we are doing everything in our power to support in any way that we can:
1. Economic
We aim to support the community by using local businesses for our supply chain, as well as adhering to the National Living Wage and ensuring we are promoting a 0% pay gap.
2. Health and Wellbeing
Whilst we have an employee assistance programme put in place for our staff, we also aim to support flexible working where possible, and support the mental health of our staff by ensuring we have a 1:100 ratio of mental health first aiders in each branch.
3. Education and skills
We pride ourselves of the level of education that we provide in our 4-day induction training courses, as well as promoting career progression as much as possible through available qualifications and apprenticeships.
4. Social and Community
In our pledge to support the local community, we aim to raise £3000 by 2024 as a region for both local and national charities, as well as maintaining high levels of communication with our staff at all times to achieve high overall satisfaction rates.
5. Employee and volunteering
It is important that we maintain demographic transparency regarding gender, age and nationality across the region, promoting equality. We also aim to deliver a total of 100 hours per year across the region of local and skilled volunteering.
6. Environmental
We aim to reduce paper usage and single-use materials drastically, whilst conserving energy wherever possible in our offices to reduce the overall impact on the environment.
7. Leadership
Here at Homecarers Care Services, we take pride in the level of communication we have with our staff, as well as adhering to an open-door policy at all times for all of our staff members.
