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Jul 2022
Business Breakfast: Care provider adds 120 staff to Harrogate team
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
A pay rise of 30% has helped a specialist care provider recruit 120 new members of staff.
Vida Healthcare is deploying the new team members across its three care homes in Harrogate in roles including care assistants, registered nurses and wellbeing staff.
The pay increase has seen qualified care assistants increase their hourly rates from £9.61 to £12.32, while nurses have gone from £18.50 to £22.50.
James Rycroft, managing director at Vida Healthcare, said:
Vida Healthcare employs more than 470 staff to care for more than 200 residents living with dementia.
Its third care home, Vida Court on Beckwith Head Road, launched last year and features a cinema, sweet shop and hair salon.
Newly-employed team leader Jayne Christie said:
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New director for Harrogate-based Eye Airports
A new director has been appointed to the head of an airport advertising firm in Harrogate.
Rachel Davies joins Eye Airports as one of three new appointments for parent company CP Media.
The outdoor advertising specialist has also added Ed Armstrong and Richard Eccles to its board as head of marketing and group chief operating officer respectively.
It follows a year of growth for the firm, with a 40% increase in group revenues to £6.8m in the last financial year.
Mike Brennan, CEO at CP Media, said:
CP Media was named one of the 50 fastest growing Yorkshire companies by Ward Hadaway and number 78 in the UK in the top founder-led private businesses of 2022, awarded by FEBE Growth 100.
It has offices in Halifax as well as six of its 40-strong team being based in Harrogate, where Eye Airport is based. CP Media acquired the brand in 2019, taking advantage of its advertising rights for 19 regional airports.
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