Connected Health, the Northern Ireland healthcare services company, plans to create a further 120 jobs as it expands its operations in Belfast, North Down and Lisburn.

The privately owned company, which employs 147 people, currently only operates in the North but may to look expand its services outside of Northern Ireland.

The company specialises in the provision of healthcare services in the home and the community and has developed its own integrated service platform – Connexion – which tailors its portfolio of services for each individual in its care.

Connected Health’s CEO Douglas Adams said the company had invested in a range of programmes and initiatives to improve and re-invent its approach to caring for older and more vulnerable in their own homes.

One of these initiatives is a new in-house, specially designed training facility for employees at its Belfast headquarters which the North’s Health Minister Simon Hamilton helped launch on Tuesday.

Speaking during his visit the Minister said: “My department has been working incredibly hard in partnership with the local Health Trusts to examine ways of improving the mechanisms for the delivery of care across communities in Northern Ireland.

“The efforts at Connected Health - in terms of the new training facility and the jobs announcement - demonstrate that we have the knowledge, talent and ability to improve services to those who need them most within our communities.”