Career progression - Home Instead Epping Forest

An example of a recent promotion to the Home Instead Epping Forest office team.

Survey results show happy clients and CAREGivers

Home Instead Epping Forest's services have been recognised as 'first class' in a recent, independent, survey

Home Instead Epping CarePro celebrates with her client

Jubilee Celebrations

Kelly, one of our CarePros, had a lovely day with her client.

Home Instead celebrates staff who have worked 9 years

9 years of service

We are celebrating staff members who have worked for Home Instead Epping Forest 9 years!

Home Instead Epping Forest celebrate staff anniversary

Anniversary Lunches

Every month we will be having lunches celebrating length of employment for Home Instead Epping Forest

Our team - encourage family to join

Home Instead in Epping is lucky to have a long standing team who encourage their family members to join too!

Our Caregiver Drop In session

Our first face to face caregiver meeting in two years!

Our Monthly Memory Lane Café is back

Our Memory Lane Café is once again a monthly event.

Home Instead Epping Forest CAREGiver survey results

Staff Survey Results

We have some fantastic results from our independently administered staff survey

Home Instead Epping 5 star Employer Award

Winner of 5 Star Employer award

We have just received our 5 Star Employer Award Certificate

Home Instead Epping Forest entry tree festival

Christmas Tree Festival

Our entry this year in the Tree Festival

Christmas Tree Festival

Home Instead Epping Forest are taking part in St John's Christmas tree festival

Memory Lane café run by Home Instead Epping Forest

Memory Lane Cafe

We have started running our monthly Memory Lane Café.

Thank you to the Home Instead Epping Forest Team

Our Wonderful Team

A show of appreciation of the whole team here in Epping Forest.

Home Instead Epping Forest Sunflower competition

Sunflower Competition Winners

We announce the winners of our sunflower growing competition.

Home Instead Epping Forest CAREGiver Awards

CAREGiver Celebration Afternoon

We are going to celebrate our CAREGivers

Dementia Action Week

Home Instead Epping host a dementia friendly café.

Our Sunflower Competition

One month of growing our sunflower seeds - progress report!

We are celebrating our CAREGivers

Home Instead Epping Forest is having a afternoon of celebrating our CAREGivers.

Home Instead Epping Forest are running a dementia cafe

Dementia Awareness Week

We are running a virtual Memory Lane Cafe as part of Dementia Awareness Week

Easter Gifts for Clients and CAREGivers

Home Instead Epping Forest make Easter Gifts for Clients and CAREGivers

Home Instead Epping Forest CAREGIver of the month

March CAREGiver Awards

Home Instead Epping Forest recognised three CAREGivers in March

Sunflower seeds for our clients in Epping Forest to grow

Our Sunflower Competition

Home Instead in Epping Forest are seeing who can grow the tallest sunflower.

February celebrations

February has been a month of celebrations

Home Instead Epping Forest receive the 5 star employer award

We have received the 5 Star Employer Award 2020

Home Instead Epping Forest have received the Five Star Employer Award 2020

Home Instead Epping Forest CAREGIvers are offered the vaccine

Vaccine roll out

Home Instead Epping Forest staff receive the vaccine

Home Instead Epping Forest dog enjoying the snow

Cold weather forecast

Home Instead Epping Forest off some cold weather tips

Happy New Year 2021

Home Instead Epping had a very different December

What activities are there for clients to do?

What can our Clients Do?

As a result of COVID many client activities have been cancelled, so what can they do?

keeping our clients safe in their own homes

COVID 19

Our aim is to keep our clients safe in their own homes.

Growing sunflower seeds competition

Our clients and CAREGivers are growing sunflowers seeds.

fantastic review score from homecare.co.uk

Homecare.co.uk review score of 9.9

We have been awarded a score of 9.9 out of 10 from Homecare.co.uk in August 2020

HISCar Awards Afternoon

We held our annual Epping Forest CAREGiver awards today.

We are going to celebrate our CAREGivers

We are going to celebrate the work of our CAREGivers.

Virtual Memory Lane Cafe

We are holding weekly virtual meetings with our Clients.

Creating music playlists for our clients

Creating a music playlist

We want to create personalised music playlists for our clients.

Our excellent 2019 survey results

Results from our clients and CAREGiver survey

Home Instead epping Forest placed in top 20 home care providers

Simply the best! Home Instead Epping Forest ranked in top award

Home Instead Epping forest are placed in the East of England Top 20 home care providers.

Hot weather advice

Tips for keeping cool during the hot weather.

Raising money for Alzheimers

We will be having a cupcake day at our next CAREGiver meeting and collecting donations for Alzheimers.

Afternoon in Epping celebrating our CAREGivers

Our HISCar GAREGiver Celebrations

An afternoon spent celebrating our fantastic team of CAREGivers.

Afternoon to celebrate our CAREGivers

A social afternoon to celebrate the wonderful work of our CAREgivers.

Clients are going to be pen pals to Junior School pupils

Sending Sunshine

Local 9 year olds writing letters to our clients.

Personal account of living with dementia

A great book by someone living with dementia.

A personal account of life for someone living with dementia.

Eating Healthily

Some ideas on eating healthily.

We won first prize in the Christmas Tree Festival

We were awarded first prize for our tree in St John's Christmas Tree Festival

Our Christmas Party

Last week we had our client and CAREGiver Christmas party.

Receiving our award 'Changing the Face of Ageing'

Changing the Face of Ageing’ Award

We have received national recognition, earlier this month we were presented with the ‘Changing the Face of Ageing’ Award at the annual Home Instead Senior Care National Conference.

St John’s Christmas Tree Festival, 7-10 December 2018

We are decorating a tree as part of St John's Church Epping Tree Festival

We have received the 5 Star Employer in Care Award

Earlier this year our staff were asked to take part in a satisfaction survey of Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest by an independent company. I am

Our Macmillan Coffee Morning

Every year Macmillan ask people and companies to take part in raising funds for them to use in supporting people with cancer. Their first coffee morni

CAREGivers with Victoria at our CAREGiver meeting

Yesterday we held our August CAREGiver meetings

Yesterday we had our monthly CAREgiver meetings (3 in total throughout the afternoon). We announced our CAREGiver of the month, Lorraine and gave her

Activity ideas for people living with dementia and how we can help

There are more than 50 million people around the world living with dementia and every 3 seconds somebody develops it. For World Alzheimer’s Month in S

World Alzheimer’s Month: The warning signs of dementia

Did you know that every 3 seconds somebody in the world develops dementia? ‘Every 3 seconds’ is the theme of World Alzheimer’s Month this September an

5 Ways to Prevent Senior Hospitalisation

41% of the 18.7 million adults admitted to hospital last year were aged 65+ so what can you do to help avoid hospital visits for your senior family me

Top Tips to Eat Well and Age Well

Food and nutrition play an important role in staying well. But many people lose their interest in food as they get older and, according to Home Instea

Our top 10 songs plus links so you can listen to them and maybe join in!

Our Top Ten #SongsToRemember. Drumroll please…we are delighted to announce the TOP TEN songs our clients love singing with CAREGivers. It’s all part o

We have been singing for dementia

We have been singing from the same song sheet as they launched their latest campaign as part of Dementia Action Week. Home Instead Senior Care has cre

Our Recent Royal Wedding Themed Memory Lane Cafe

Our Memory Lane Café this last week had a Royal wedding theme it was great fun. We all enjoyed chatting to each other and talking about our own weddin

It’s Hug your Cat Day on 4th June

It’s Hug your Cat Day on 4th June so we thought we would run a ‘Cutest Cat’ competition and chose the winner by 4 June! A lot of our clients and CAREG

Royal wedding Themed Memory Lane Cafe

Every month we hold a Memory Lane Café in Epping. It is a lovely afternoon which gives our clients an opportunity to meet some of our CAREGIvers and o

Frequently asked questions about being a CAREGIVER

Sometimes misconceptions can get in the way of people applying for a job in care. In this article, we answer some of the most frequently asked questio

A sign your ageing parent needs help?

Here are some typical signs of ageing, Keep an eye out for these types of behaviour. Don’t be alarmed as soon as you notice one occurrence, or even a

Reduce your risk of hospitalisation

A British Red Cross report last week revealed a startling increase in the level of hospital readmissions The latest figures show that emergency hospit

Myth busting the role of the CAREGiver

We want to help people understand what CAREGiving entails and to encourage people to think about a career in care. According to Skills for Care, the s

Tips on keeping well in winter

NHS England is worried about rising flu rates, which are twice as high as they were this time last year. ‘Aussie' Flu is particularly virulent and ove

What Makes a Great CAREGiver?

Have ever cared for a loved one or enjoyed interacting with older individuals? If you have, here is an opportunity you might be interested in, where y

Cold weather tips

Snow can be fun but it can also cause difficulties especially for the more senior members of the population. The weather is so cold at the moment that

Letters of Congratulations from two Members of Parliament

Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health has written to us congratulating us on being awarded an outstanding rating from CQC. He wrote:. ‘From v

St John's Church Tree Festival

Every year we enter the St John’s Church in Epping Tree Festival. This year our tree has been decorated by some of the office team with a lot of help

We have been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ care rating

Our care business has been described as ‘a lifesaver’ and our CAREGivers referred to as ‘diamonds’ in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report which has

Our Macmillan Coffee Event was a huge success

We held a Macmillan coffee event on Saturday, 30 September 10am – 3pm, in our offices in Epping. Three members of the office team arranged and ran the

Tips on how to age gracefully

October 1st is the International Day of Older Persons and this year’s theme is about enabling and expanding the contributions of older people in their

Tips to communicate with people living with dementia

September is World Alzheimer's Month and every year, the aim of the campaign is to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. H

Macmillan Coffee event

You are invited to our Macmillan Coffee event. On Saturday 30 September 2017. From 10 am—3pm. At our offices 233-235 High Street Epping. (I am sorry b

Tips for successful ageing

Growing older forces change as we age we cannot do everything we could when we were younger. These changes may impact different areas of life includin

Cutest Dog Competition Winner

We had 22 entries to our Cutest Dog Competition and I was very pleased I did not have to choose the winner! The winner was chosen at our Memory Lane C

Tips for Safer Computer Use

July is Scam Awareness Month and we are trying to highlight the scams aimed at seniors. In this digital age, more seniors than ever are online, using

Cutest Dog Competition

We are going to have our very own Cutest Dog Competition for Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest. The competition is open to all staff, clients and

Let's get knitting 'Twiddlemuffs'

A twiddlemuff is a knitted muff with items attached so that people living with dementia can twiddle with it – it not only keeps their hands warm but a

Tips for Reducing Stress

Ageing brings about new challenges such as health, finances, and dealing with change that can cause stress to build in older adults. Stress is a norma

Helping make the Epping Forest region dementia friendly

According to The Alzheimer’s Society, there are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to 1 million by 2025. Alzheimer’s dise

Moving more makes a difference

The British Heart Foundation are starting a campaign to get us moving more they say they have a slogan:. Moving more makes a difference. ‘Sedentary be

Our Memory Lane Cafe

We run a monthly Memory Lane Café in Epping, for clients, their friends and family. It is a great afternoon and everyone enjoys it. This month it happ

Tips for Sleeping Well

Sleep is just as important to our physical and emotional health as it was when we were younger. Margaret Thatcher only needed 4 hours sleep a night, B

Tips on healthy eating plus a request for recipes!

A healthy diet can be the key to maintaining a positive outlook on life whilst keeping your mind and body fit and well. No matter what age you are, or

Our Christmas Party 20 December 2016

We held out client and caregiver Christmas party on Tuesday 20 December and it was a super afternoon. It was the first time we had used Theydon Bois V

St John’s Christmas Tree Festival - we came first!!

As part of this year’s Christmas celebrations in Epping, St John’s Church held a Christmas Tree Festival early December. This consisted of a display i

St John’s Christmas Tree Festival 2nd to 5th December 2016

As part of this year’s Christmas celebrations in Epping, St John’s Church will be holding a Christmas Tree Festival on the above dates. This will cons

Tips for the dementia carer

Encouraging pastimes... We have put together some tips to help you be the best carer possible. Remember, it is very important that you have someone to

The MP for Epping Forest visits our offices

Staff photo call with Eleanor Laing July 2016. Everyone in the office today with Eleanor. Today Eleanor Laing MP visited our offices. Eleanor is the M

How to protect the elderly from scams

July is Fraud Awareness month, here are some simple steps you can take to protect you and elderly family members from falling victim to the many diffe

Knit a sensory muff to keep people living with dementia warm and entertained.

A twiddlemuff being demonstrated! Completed twiddlemuff demonstrated! A twiddlemuff is a knitted muff with items attached so that people living with d

Some tips on how to stay socially active

Exercise one on one then later in groups .... Finding ways to stay young at heart, stimulated, and busy is very important for all of us whatever our a

Top tips to help stay safe on the road

Maybe time for a modern car? Driving is a great way to remain independent, but it's normal for our driving abilities to change as we get older. By red

Gardening can be a fun activity for seniors

Rosemary, sage and chives - easy to grow herbs. Gardening can be a great activity. It’s satisfying, productive and a very good way to stay active and

Skin Care Tips for Seniors

In the sunshine in the garden. Here are some simple yet very effective skin care tips for seniors. As a person gets older, his or her skin tends to be

A letter from the family of one of our clients

14 February 2016. Dear Vicki. Following our conversation the other day, I would just like to say how much Carolyn, Bruce, Rosemary and I appreciate ev

National Heart Month

Fruit and vegetables are good for your heart. February is National Heart Month and the most important thing you can do to help and prevent heart disea

Simple Home Safety Checks

The New Year is now upon us and a good time to do some checks around the home to make sure it is the safest it can be. Here are some simple checks you

Our Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) report summary and fantastic quotes

We had our CQC inspection in November 2015, the Inspector asks five main questions about services and rated all good and found no issues. The inspecto

Preparing for winter

Winter ice! December is now here along with forecasted colder weather. Is your home ready for winter? Here are a few things to consider:. Does your bo

St John’s 11th Christmas Tree Festival 4-7 December 2015

Tree decorations made at our Memory Lane Cafe. Once again as part of this year’s Christmas celebrations in Epping, St John’s Church will be holding a

Top tips for boosting your mood

It is very important, especially with winter coming, to keep an upbeat state of mind. It is very easy in the shorter days of winter to feel less incli

Our Summer Tea Party

Everyone concentrating on their bingo cards! Last Thursday we had our Summer Tea Party for clients and CAREGivers, we had a great turnout and it was a

Here are some tips on how to communicate with people living with dementia

CAREGiver and Client. When communicating with someone with dementia, there are many things to consider. Talking isn’t always the most effective metho

Care to make a difference

Memory Café attendees making Easter baskets. Working for Home Instead is very rewarding; CAREGivers are given the opportunity to develop their careers

Dementia Awareness Week – Family Education Workshop

‘My 82 year old mother had lived on her own since my dad died three years ago. Mum was always a cheerful person, but lately she seams confused, and la

Never too old (or too young) to care!

Our CAREGiver Sybil. Our CAREGivers are mainly ladies in the age range mid-thirties to mid-fifties but we do recruit men and women of all ages as this

Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Or for us Walking, Driving and Flying!

Walking. We take our clients out for short walks so that they get some healthy fresh air. These walks can be any length depending on the client and th

Colourful Cooking

Soup Tasting. Filling our plate with a rainbow of vegetables and fruits not only livens up our meals, it is also one of the easiest ways to boost our

Some tips on how to sleep well at night

Counting sheep. Scientists have discovered that sleep plays a critical role in the body’s immune function, metabolism, memory, learning and other vita

National Heart Month

Lovely fresh fruit. . February is National Heart Month and we would like to share a few tips from the British Heart Foundation for keeping a healthy

Some Cold Weather Tips

It is cold!! More cold weather is forecast as winter is definitely not over yet. We have listed a few safety tips for seniors and their loved ones to

Let’s start the New Year with a New Year’s Resolution – Exercise more in 2015

Office team on the Memory Walk. We in the office have decided to do more exercise in the New Year. Those of us with dogs are used to walking these dai

Client Christmas Party

North Weald Village Hall was full! We had our client Christmas party on Friday 12th December. For the second year running we held this event at North

Memory Lane Cafe

We held our first Memory Lane Café on Tuesday afternoon at the Quaker House in Epping and it was a great success. We served tea, coffee and biscuits a

We are looking for knitters!

Once again as part of this year’s Christmas celebrations in Epping, St John’s Church will be holding a Christmas Tree Festival on 5th-8th December. Th

Our Client survey Results

To enable us to constantly review and improve the service we provide, we asked our clients to complete a questionnaire and return it to an external co

Days out with our Clients

Our CAREGivers love taking our clients out. Over the summer we have been to an exciting and interesting range of places. There have been, for example

Summer Party

Our summer party for clients, family and carers last Tuesday was a great success, the Quaker Hall was full, our next party may have to be at a larger

We are having a Summer Party!

We would like to invite you to our summer party:. At The Quaker House,Hemnall Street ,Epping. On Tuesday 19 August 2014. 2pm – 3.30pm. Office staff an

Heat Wave Advice

Bess is also feeling the heat this week! We are expecting very high temperatures in Epping Forest over the next 48 hours so here is some advice on wha

This article appeared in the Guardian Wednesday 25th June 2014

Rachel Williams attended one of our free dementia awareness courses recently. There are murmurs of recognition around the small first-floor room above

Dementia Awareness Workshop

On Thursday 22nd May we ran a Dementia Awareness Workshop in our office in Epping. The course went well and was very well attended and the afternoon f

Dementia Knits update

As part of dementia awareness week we are knitting pets to help people suffering from dementia. We now have three completed knitted dogs. We have our

We are knitting dogs and cats to help our clients suffering from dementia

A recent article in the Times brought to our attention the fact that memories of pets can coax dementia patients’ smiles. This article went on to give

Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest Dementia Awareness Workshop

During National Dementia Awareness Week in May we will be running free Dementia Awareness Workshops. They are for friends and families of those with d

Refresher training

This week we have been running refresher training for our CAREGivers who have worked for Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest for a year. We have us

Extended Office

We have now taken on more office space so we now occupy the whole of the second floor of 233-235 High Street, Epping. We have moved the office team in

Scam Awareness workshop

Awareness of the types of scams that your loved one could be affected by is paramount to ensuring their safety online, on the telephone and via unsoli

FREE Scam Aware Workshop in Epping on 21st February

Victoria and David at Hawks radio Harlow. On Friday 31st January I joined David Bassett from Home Instead East Hertfordshire, at Radio Hawks, a local

Home Instead Puppy!

Bess is now 12 weeks old. She has had her final vaccination and is looking forward to going out for walks from Wednesday. You will be able to see us

Christmas Party

We held our Christmas party for clients and CAREGivers last Friday and it was a huge success. Our special thanks go to Betty who was the first client

St John’s 10th Christmas Tree Festival 6th to 9th December 2013

We have been allocated a tree in the Christmas Tree Festival and will be decorating it on 4th December. Anyone wishing to help, make some decorations

Fantastic CQC report for Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest!

We are delighted with the results of our recent unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator of health and social care i

Home Instead Senior Care National Conference 2013

Sue, Jennifer and I were presented with our award. The Home Instead Senior Care annual conference last weekend at the Liverpool Echo Arena. Most of th

Free Dementia Workshop

We are proud to be spreading the word, and sharing our knowledge of techniques for helping those families where dementia is affecting a loved one. Fre

Epping Forest Memory Walk

On Sunday 15th September we took part in the Epping Forest Memory Walk to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. There was a great atmosphere with l

We are going to take part in the Epping Forest Memory Walk

Please come and join us it should be fun! You can walk 2km or 10km we are going to try the 10km! The walk will be through the leafy paths of the beaut

Epping MP backs care in the community

Eleanor Laing MP, was the guest of honour at the official opening of Home Instead Senior Care Epping Forest, held last Friday (21 June) at The Quaker

The Big Knit – let’s help Innocent raise funds for Age UK

This is the tenth year of the Innocent Smoothie campaign to encourage people to knit hats for their smoothie bottles. For every smoothie bottle sold w

May Caregiver meeting

Caregiver meeting with a local Chiropractor, Patrick Moore. We had a successful Caregiver meeting with a local Chiropractor, Patrick Moore, joining us

March Caregiver meeting

At last week’s Caregiver meeting we had a guest speaker, Terry Rummins. Terry has suffered from Parkinson’s disease for the last ten years and has wri

New Epping care business to create 40 jobs

A new service specialising in caring for older people in their own homes has set up in Epping and hopes to create 40 new jobs in the area. The office

Christmas Market Stall

Our Market stall. The Home Instead team braved the cold weather on Monday to spread some festive cheer at Epping Market! The main aim of the day was t

Local hospice gets a little help from Santas!

Santa outfits on and set to go!Victoria Rigby, owner of at-home care company, Home Instead Senior Care in Epping Forest, enlisted a little help from h

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