Herald - Issue 417

Page 42 • The HERALD • 6th January 2022 v SUPPORTING YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v WE CARE, YOU CARE COMPUTER BUDDY Let us help you make life easier Contact Waterside Home Help today to find out how we can help you and your family. We offer a range of home help & companionship services: ● Cleaning ● Laundry and bed changes ● Carpet Cleaning* ● Shopping and errands ● Transport to appointments ● Companionship ● We will match you with a fully trained, insured and DBS checked helper to suit your individual needs. ● The same helper will visit you at the same time each day, week, fortnight or whenever required. ● We do not provide personal care, therefore our rates are considerably lower ● From £15 per hour (*please ask for prices) Call us today on 07565 428139 Or email us on: info@watersidehomehelp.co.uk Visit our website: www.watersidehomehelp.co.uk Make a Career of Helping People in your Community by Becky Taylor, Talent Acquisition at Bluebird Care Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH or email: editor@herald-publishing.co.uk O en, at Bluebird Care, we get asked; how people change their careers and become care workers or support givers working in the community. Our Care Assistants come from all walks of life, not necessarily from nursing care or a care home background. We have trained people coming from a background such as retail, nance, hospitality. Caring in the community gives people the exibility to grow in their roles, build up their con dence, and get retrained in a more leisurely way. It is a great way for young mums to do some work, and they do some evenings and weekend work shi s, to keep their foot in the door. For the empty nesters, joining a care team can give you that boost of helping others to stay longer in their own homes. You will meet new colleagues and make friends. e more mature people who have no family commitments o en go and become live-in caregivers. Retired from their main careers, but still have a huge amount to o er. ey become companions and build special bonds. It gives extra income at a later stage in their lives. Care is a career where you can start at the very young age of 18 years and work into your sixties. Caring and compassion are characteristics that you will have and will drive you to look a er people at any point in your life. Bluebird Care New Forest and Totton provides home care and live-in care services in the comfort of individuals own home. If you are interested to hear more about a career in care, call us on: 07464 546 162 or visit: www.bluebirdcare.co.uk/careers or email: recruitmentnewforest@ bluebirdcare.co.uk Becky Taylor, Talent Acquisition Age Concern Hampshire e Horrill Care and Wellbeing Centre team at Age Concern Hampshire (ACH) have been working hard since they re-opened earlier in 2021 to support people aged 50+ in the Dibden and Hythe community. e organisation are working to support elderly people, their carers and families through o ering much needed day sessions as a lifeline for people that may live alone for companionship as well as those that could bene t from respite breaks. The Centre welcomed community members to their Christmas Fair on the 20th November where they hosted lots of local traders as stall holders. ey raised over £470 in donations at the event. To nd out more about the Centre and services they o er to people over 50 and their carers www. ageconcernhampshire. org.uk/care-and-wellbeing-services-hampshire/horrill- day-care-and-wellbeing-centre-hampshire. Age Concern’s community Christmas fair