Care home boss gives workers 10.5% pay rise to help with cost of living crisis

A care home boss operating across Lincolnshire has given his staff a 10.5 per cent pay rise as the cost of living is "climbing higher".

With care homes in Lincoln and Grimsby, Home From Home Care offers residential care for adults with learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy and mental health needs.

Staff aged over 18 will be paid a minimum of £11 an hour or £22,880 a year if it is their first job with the care provider. All 500 of its staff will receive a pay rise, regardless of job role.

Managing director of Home From Home Care Paul de Savary said: “Every job with us is a highly skilled one that requires training, expertise and incredible people skills.

"This means we have to be competitive, not only with other care providers, but with every other organisation looking to hire great people.

"We’re immensely proud to be supporting our colleagues in this way, especially while the cost of living is climbing higher.”

Care home chief calls staff mask rules ‘ridiculous’

In a video posted on YouTube on 22 July called ‘Paul’s Weekly Round Up’, Paul de Savary, said: “We are not going backwards on recruitment, we are going forwards but very…slowly.

"Everyone’s doing fantastically well – different people are picking up different shifts and so on.”

Commenting on the hot summer weather, the care leader also said mask-wearing rules for staff must change.

Paul de Savary said: “The heat is over! Thank you very much everybody for doing such a fantastic job. We’re really grateful to them for going that extra mile, for battling the heat.

“And those horrible filthy masks having to work in those. I do not get, as I have said on many occasions - many people in the sector,- do not get why we are having to wear masks within the homes because you could be in the home with everybody wearing masks and then as soon as you step out the front door you can take your mask off.

"Well, that’s ridiculous. Fingers crossed that somebody will be a little more intelligent about it all.”

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