Connected Health has announced the creation of 500 new jobs and adopted the London living wage rate for all care workers across its Northern Ireland operations.
The 500 new homecare posts, which include both full-time and part-time roles, will be rolled out by Connected Health across Northern Ireland over the next 12 months.
The independent domiciliary care provider said it was offering the higher rate of pay to attract and retain more homecare workers as a general staffing shortage continues to cripple the social care and health care sectors.
Theresa Morrison, Connected Health's director of clinical services and training, said the social care sector as a whole must continue to increase its efforts to address the current staffing deficit.
“Our hospitals are under severe pressure and increased homecare capacity in our communities provides a key solution to alleviating that pressure,” she said.
“As a sector, we need many more local carers working in their own communities and Connected Health is continuing to lead the drive to substantially increase staffing capacity in order to meet unprecedented and ever-growing demand.”
