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Health / Social Work Residential Health Care And Social Work Residential Care Activities 87.3 - Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Athena Healthcare Group has announced plans to create 250 new jobs when it opens two new residential care homes in New Brighton on the Wirral in July 2018. The group has said that the new purpose-built accommodation will offer nursing, dementia and residential care. The group are looking to fill positions across all job types within the care industry.
The homes will be engaged with the local community as part of an initiative to provide activities for residents to provide a change of scenery and to help combat loneliness.
Sources
4 January 2018: Wirral Globe
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Athena Healthcare Group, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 93082, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93082.
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