PJ Care join the elite top 1% with IIP Gold Award

Specialist Neurological Nursing care provider, PJ Care, have joined the top 1% of IIP accredited companies in the UK with the recent achievement of the IIP Gold Award.

The Gold Award is seen as an achievement of world class best practice in the field of employee development and is only awarded to organisations providing the highest standards of personnel management.

There are 39 evidence requirements to achieve Investors In People, PJ Care took the decision to go beyond the standard and set out to achieve the additional 126 evidence requirements that are needed to achieve the Gold Standard. This evidence was assessed during a series of visits, when randomly selected staff were interviewed. Having met more than the minimum 165 evidence requirements PJ Care has been rewarded for its efforts in developing a strong and capable team of employees.

Pauline Helliar-Symons, the Investors In People assessor from IBP stated, “The philosophy of Care, Compassion and Commitment, and the way it is applied to staff as much as to residents, really does influence the way managers manage and the way people work. It makes staff as well as residents feel valued and supports the company’s overall vision.”

Many employees spoke about their roles and the company’s management during the assessment, comments such as “The managers want everyone to feel they are not just coming to do a job and earn pay, but that we are learning to care, even if its just taking 10 minutes to talk to a resident. If I owned the place I would be disheartened if staff didn’t bother about people, but here they do, and to give residents the best care we have to have a better understanding of them; that goes beyond just the mandatory training.” were common place.

Jan Flawn, Chair of PJ Care stated that “We are extremely proud of this award, both as an organisation that places extreme importance on the development of its employees and as a collection of individuals that take great pride and place huge amounts of personal commitment into the provision of high quality care. This award is a reflection of where we are at present with our policy of continued development and growth, but it is also a good indication of the foundations we intend to build from with a continued strengthening focus on Care, Compassion and Commitment.”