We are delighted to have appointed Lancashire’s Kirstie Poole as service development manager. In this new position, Kirstie will support our Bury, Blackburn and Preston offices, providing ideas and strategies to facilitate growth, and supporting the registered branch managers and their teams with ongoing professional development and training as they strive for outstanding service delivery.
Having worked in care from the age of 18, Kirstie is well qualified for her new role. Before joining Alcedo, she was a registered care manager for an operation that she helped build from scratch over six years; she has also worked across a number of other social care roles including quality assurance officer, care coordinator, field care supervisor and senior care supervisor in a care home environment.
Kirstie was attracted to Alcedo’s family values and the commitment to working together to achieve successful outcomes for service users. She said: “I had heard really great things about Alcedo Care and identified with the company’s family values and culture. I’m delighted to join such a fast growing and well regarded business and want to use my skills and knowledge to ensure that all of our clients in the Lancashire area receive safe and effective care delivered with compassion in the comfort of their own home and that our offices achieve outstanding CQC reports.”
Managing director of Alcedo Care Group, Andy Boardman, added: “I’m really pleased to welcome Kirstie to the team and look forward to seeing her develop in her new role. Demand from service users in Lancashire means our offices are growing rapidly; the addition of Kirstie to the team in a regional role will support the branches enabling a continued high standard of service delivery across the region while still being able to expand.”
Kirstie has lived in Oswaldtwistle since the age of four and is now bringing her own young family up in the area. When not working, they all love the great outdoors, spending weekends on the family farm with the dogs, cats, sheep, horses and cows or taking their boat to the Lake District for camping weekends. She also enjoys meeting friends, socialising, singing and dancing and going to the gym.
Run by passionate husband and wife team, Andy and Jo Boardman, and with the support of their fantastic management team, the company is expanding at pace and aims to double in size over the next 12 months with the recruitment of more than 1,000 new carers. Our website offers more information on the home care services provided by Alcedo Care, or to enquire about a fulfilling and rewarding new career in care.
