{"id":15470,"date":"2022-07-21T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:09:08","slug":"new-walfinch-franchisee-taking-care-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/new-walfinch-franchisee-taking-care-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"New Walfinch Franchisee: Taking Care to the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Monique Gadd is looking forward to playing a bigger part in her community as the new Walfinch home care franchisee in the Bolton and Bury Boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Walfinch offers an alternative to care homes.\u00a0 Nine out of ten people say that if they need care, they would prefer to receive it in their own home.\u00a0 Walfinch franchisees help address this need offering home care to clients in a caring professional way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that self-employment in some sectors can be isolating, so I chose Walfinch because I could see it would mean becoming a valued part of our local community,\u201d says Monique.<\/p>\n<p>Monique has been steadily making contacts to build up Walfinch Bolton &amp; Bury\u2019s profile\u00a0as a care services provider.\u00a0 She says: \u201cI\u2019ve been out meeting local\u00a0 hospital discharge teams, physios, private doctors, people from local clinical commissioning groups, dentists, opticians, solicitors and even hairdressers to spread the word about the services that Walfinch Bolton &amp; Bury can provide. I want to be on everyone\u2019s preferred supplier lists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monique had previously owned a franchise in another sector, but over time her business ambitions changed. \u201cI want to provide hands-on help to people, and when I met Walfinch Chief Executive Amrit Dhaliwal, he radiated values that chime with mine \u00a0\u2013 he wants Walfinch to deliver genuine people-centred care,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Monique had no previous professional experience of care, but it has been a part of her life. She says: \u201cI first experienced the importance of care as the mother of twins born very prematurely, at 26 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore recently I went to visit my mum in Cape Town and discovered that although she lives in a retirement complex, she had been neglecting her social life. Within ten days of my being there,\u00a0 I had persuaded her to go to the club house daily to play cards, eat lunch and meet other people. I\u2019m delighted she has kept it up now I\u2019m back here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt brings music to my heart and reminds me how rewarding caring can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monique adds: \u201cPeople close to me have said that I have a special talent for nurturing and building up relationships with people with special needs and the elderly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monique praised the Walfinch franchise team for their help attaining CQC registration, setting up her office, recruiting her registered manager and care team and launching the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I have found out what I really want to do in business,\u201d says Monique. \u201cI am confident that with the strong Walfinch team supporting us, I can achieve my aim of helping and supporting people as part of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transform lives in your community while transforming your own. Contact our franchise recruitment team now.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Gadd is looking forward to playing a bigger part in her community as the new Walfinch home care franchisee in the Bolton and Bury Boroughs. Walfinch offers an alternative to care homes.\u00a0 Nine out of ten people say that if they need care, they would prefer to receive it in their own home.\u00a0 Walfinch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1464,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-walfinch","category-care-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Monique-and-Pamela-Bryan-Registered-Manager-low-res-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}