Elevating home care: a new provider challenges perceptions

Centre for Care Researcher, Duncan Fisher, hosts Suliyat O'Balogun in this episode, which looks at established perceptions of home care provision, and how these perceptions inspired Suliyat to start her own home care business with a different model, with focus on sustainability, recruitment and retention, values and work place culture. They also discuss migration and individual care biographies, looking at Suliyat's journey into social work.

About our guest

Suliyat O'Balogun qualified as a Social Worker in 2014. Between then and 2019, she worked in a Hospital Discharge Team based at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. 

In 2019, Suliyat moved to a Local Authority based in the South East of England, where she worked with adults over 18 years old, with physical, learning disabilities/difficulties and mental health issues. During this period, she managed a social work team, where she was responsible for overseeing the team’s operational needs, practice quality, KPIs and managing financial budgets. Suliyat was also involved in the recruitment process, including interviewing possible candidates, organising induction plans and subsequently, reviewing performance of team members regularly. 

In 2023, Suliyat opened up a domiciliary care agency called This is Homecare.

 

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The CARE MATTERS Podcast is produced by Dan Williamson at the Centre for Care.

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