Home care company expands into Easter Ross

Highland Home Carers, one of Scotland’s leading independent providers of care for elderly and disabled people, has opened of a new Invergordon office.

The company, originally established in 1994, now employs 335 people and has a turnover of more than £4.5million.

Seventy-five care at home and support workers are managed from the office in Invergordon, providing help at home to 180 older people and adults with special needs in an area stretching from Conon Bridge and the Black Isle in the south to Edderton in the north and out to the Seaboard villages in the east.

The opening of an office in Easter Ross was an inevitable next step as the company was taking on the delivery of services at a distance from its original base in Inverness.

Managing director Stephen Pennington said: “We have a fairly modest office in Invergordon because almost all of our staff work in people’s homes, caring for frail elderly people or adults with special needs.

“When the Cabinet Secretary agreed to open our new Easter Ross office we realised we wouldn’t have enough space to invite the staff or clients. So we decided to move the event to the Social Club nearby to give everybody a chance to join in.

“We have always held various outings for our clients to allow them to get out and meet others, so this was a chance to put on our first lunch for those clients who are served from the new Easter Ross office and we had an enthusiastic response when we put out the invitations.”