Multi-million pound new care home to create 100 jobs

Work is under way on a multi-million pound state-of-the art care home for the elderly, which will create more than 100 jobs.
The three-storey facility is being built by Peterborough-based AFM (1932) Ltd, a leading healthcare developer and contractor, on a two-and-a-half acre site in Warwick Road, Walton, at its junction with the A15 Lincoln Road.

Scheduled to open in the summer of next year, the home will have 78 spacious bedrooms with en-suites, a day care centre and facilities such as cinema room, gym, café, fully licensed bar, library, hair/beauty salon and landscaped sensory gardens.for residents.

Each room will also be equipped with TV and internet access.

The home will provide day care, residential care, dementia care and nursing care services.

Managing director Andrew Allen said: “ This will be a fabulous building with marvellous facilities, but then again everyone in this sector is building homes to a high specification and you have to be seen to be the best.

“It is a £4m development – 1 35,000 sq ft home on a two-and-a-half acre site.

“It will provide around 100 construction jobs between now and next summer, and when it opens we think more than 100 jobs running it.

“And all the staff will be recruited locally, which we think is important, too, across the whole spectrum – health care assistants to specialist nursing and management.

“The full range of care services will be provided for residents, but one whole floor – a third of the beds – will be for dementia care which is vital as there are a lot more people suffering from some form of dementia and nowhere near enough care facilities.”