Temple Croft

 

Care Home

 

Temple Croft is part of a group of nine homes owned by a family.  The family has been in the caring business for a period of 15 years and take a very active part in running the business.  One of the proprietors is a Registered Mental Nurse.

 

Four of these homes are around the Grimsby area (Waltham, Laceby, Bradley and Grimsby) in North East Lincolnshire, 2 of the homes are in villages (Burringham and Haxey) in North Lincolnshire and the remaining 3 homes are in Dewsbury in Kirklees.  The services that the group provides vary from residential care for the elderly right trough to EMI Nursing Care for the elderly.

 

Each home has its own Manager. Currently one of the proprietors manages a home in the group directly (Cloverdale Care Home).  The Senior Management team in the group consists of an Operations Manager, a Finance Manager and a Human Resources Manager.  This fairly flat management structure helps to run the whole group like a small family and the proprietors are particularly proud of being able to create this family atmosphere in the group.

 

From a company structure point of view, the group is called Dryband One Ltd.  Dryband owns all of the shares of 3 subsidiary companies called Northfields Care Homes Ltd., Isle Care (Axholme) Ltd. and P B Residential Care Home Ltd.  This financial structure is primarily due to the manner in which Dryband expanded to acquire the other homes.

 

It is company strategy to ‘market’ each home with its own identity and name rather than marketing the group.  This way the residents and staff of the Home associate with the Home’s identity rather than the group.