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Sam’s care home career is on the up at Cheriton
Published: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Sam Fidler’s care home career has taken off with promotion to Deputy Manager at Cheriton, our care home in Dorchester.
She knows the home, on Weymouth Avenue, and its residents inside-out after being promoted from a team leader role at Cheriton, where she has worked for the past four years. Sam replaces Zoe Price, who has been promoted to care home manager at Cheriton’s sister Agincare home, Trafalgar, in Weymouth.
Sam said:
I love working at Cheriton Care Home and have enjoyed caring for the residents and really getting to know them, their families and friends. It’s a real community that we have here at Cheriton. I’m so very pleased be able to build my career somewhere I know so well, and play my part as the home goes from strength to strength.
Kick start your care home career
Sam’s progression to deputy manager illustrates perfectly the opportunities on offer for anyone that wants to build a career in care at Cheriton Care Home or one of its sister homes by Agincare in Dorset or further afield.
Sam and the team at Cheriton Care Home are now recruiting people who share their passion for caring in a wide variety of roles, offering flexible working patterns with full-time and part-time roles.
We also have jobs available at our other care homes in Dorset and across the country. As well as offering competitive pay, £500 welcome bonus, free training, and other benefits, there’s also the job satisfaction of making a valuable difference to those who need care and support.
Sam wrote herself into the history books last December at Dorset County Hospital after becoming the first person in Dorset to receive a Covid vaccination (pictured below).
Her new role includes being responsible for Cheriton’s 71 bed home, on Weymouth Avenue in the heart of Dorchester, in the absence of registered manager Denise Chrippes, who said:
I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Sam into the deputy manager’s role. It’s a tribute to the fantastic job that she has done so far at Cheriton Care Home and is very well deserved.
She’s an absolute to pleasure to work alongside, and gets excellent feedback from our partners and fellow professionals. Sam’s appointment is a massive boost after a challenging year. I’d like to thank everyone that has supported us in the wider community, as well as the team at Agincare and well-being team at Our Dorset.
Cheriton Care Home
Denise, who celebrates a year at the helm of Cheriton this month, and her 20th with us, added:
The team here at Cheriton are all passionate about giving our residents the best care possible, it’s their home after all.
Cheriton Care Home is run by leading independent care provider Agincare, which operates over 20 care homes nationwide from its base on Portland. Agincare is a family-owned care provider that has been delivering high quality professional care for over 35 years.
We deliver live-in care, home care, residential care and nursing homes plus support for younger adults. We are fully regulated by the Care Quality Commission. Agincare has major contracts with many large public sector organisations. We also deliver care services to a large and growing number of self-funding clients.
