Hadrian Healthcare Group secure Investors in People Silver award

The North of England based Hadrian Healthcare Group has been successful in achieving the Investors in People (IiP) Silver award, at the provider’s first attempt to do so.

The IiP Silver award is held by fewer than 600 organisations in the UK and is the recognised standard framework by which business development and working practices are judged.

Grant Hamilton, Investors in People specialist for idg, the official partner for Investors in People in the North of England commented on the achievement: “Achieving Investors in People Silver demonstrates a progressive approach to business improvement through people, cascading best practice through every level of the organisation.

“Hadrian Healthcare Group has a number of excellent processes, practices and procedures developed to drive performance improvement in the delivery of person-centred care.

“The company has a culture and ethos that encourages continuous improvement and expectations that people will challenge the way things work and develop new approaches to meet the needs of individual residents, their relatives and external agencies such as GP practices and referral agencies.”

Managing director Jas Gill praised the contribution of the workforce: “The company has grown quickly over the last three years and we now have almost 600 employees.

“We believe in our people and we aim to be the employer of choice for the best staff across all roles from nursing to maintenance.”

Operations director Penny Macnair said: “We wanted to measure the effectiveness of what we were doing in training and development, team working and management.

“The Investors in People process has been invaluable. It has confirmed what we’re doing well and pinpointed where we can improve.

“The Silver award shows we are on the right track and we’re delighted to have achieved it. We’ll be implementing the recommendations from the assessment over the next few months.”

Hadrian Healthcare’s eight North of England care homes are located in Hull, Bradford, Scunthorpe, Leeds and Blyth, with two in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and one at Barnard Castle in County Durham.