Cleobury Mortimer care home to create 150 jobs
About 150 jobs are to be created at a new care home in Shropshire catering for people aged over 50 who suffer from mental illness.
The specialist centre, called Cleobury Hills, will be a 60-bed home when it opens in April next year in in Cleobury Mortimer.
It is being developed by Capulet Care – which owns specialist homes in Perton and Trysull in South Staffordshire – with £4.4 million of backing from Royal Bank of Scotland.
The home will provide care for people aged over 50, mainly for those with illnesses including Alzheimer's, dementia, sensory disorder and physical disability.
Owner Juliet Briggs said: “I am thrilled that work is now underway on our new state of the art care home.
"Cleobury Hills will provide much needed care services for adults with mental illness and nursing needs in the local area and I am pleased to say that 150 new jobs will be created as a result of the opening, across all areas of the business.
“As with our other care homes, the focus at Cleobury Hills will be to not only provide the highest standard and level of nursing care possible but to give residents the life they want."
Work on Cleobury Hills began in January but was delayed by six months when a badgers' sett was found on the site.
Ms Briggs added: “Early preparation works uncovered a badger’s sett on the site of the new development so we have had to postpone building work until the badgers could be safely re-housed.
"I am pleased to say that by working alongside ecologists and Natural England we have been able to naturally relocate the badgers to another sett on a different part of the land.”
The home will provide 24-hour nursing and residential care to adults in the area.
Among the jobs on offer are positions for specialist nurses and carers who will focus on enhancing the physical health of residents as well as their mental and emotional wellbeing.
