New jobs in the pipeline as development gets underway

UP to 100 new jobs are to be created in East Yorkshire at a new £4.15m care home.

Construction work is underway at the new home in Hedon, which has gained funding through Yorkshire Bank’s business and private banking centre in Hull.

The home, which will provide nursing and specialist dementia care for 54 residents, is being developed by family-run care home business, Yorkare Homes and is expected to open in August 2014.

The funding from Yorkshire Bank follows its provision of £3.875m to build the 64-bed Westfield Park Nursing Home in Goole, also owned by East Yorkshire-based Yorkare Homes, which opened earlier this year and created an initial 25 new jobs.

Yorkare Homes development director, Laurence Garton, said: “Our new care home in Hedon will have the most modern facilities for nursing and dementia care available. We have also gained planning permission for an adjacent 40-bed home which will enable us to create a stand-alone specialist dementia care centre.

“We are very pleased to start building work. The demographics of an ageing population, and the changing nature of the care of older people, means that there is a significant and continuing demand for modern facilities. We believe that a family business such as ours is well-suited to providing the sort of care where a warm, friendly atmosphere is so crucial.”

Anthony Hutt of Yorkshire Bank Hull, said: “Society’s understanding of how best to care for older people is constantly changing and we are pleased to be supporting the development of this new home by such a dynamic and forward-thinking family business.”