Are you running a care business - or just a care service?
In today’s challenging environment, the difference matters more than ever. Without a clear strategy, strong culture, and confident business decisions, care providers risk being stuck in day-to-day firefighting and little profit, instead of building long-term success.
Why attend?:
- Many smaller homecare providers are focused on the “here and now”. They don’t think about the future, or about “going out there” to find more referrals, etc.
- Learn to build a strong foundation with:
- Positive culture
- Effective business practices
- Strategic plans for 6 months, 2 years, and 5 years ahead
- Attendees will learn the starting point to creating a care business that is higher-performing in every area, and driven by a positive culture.
Who should attend:
- Owners of small homecare businesses.
- Registered Managers of homecare businesses.
- Deputy Managers and Heads of Care.
- Owners and managers of suppliers to small homecare businesses.
- Any person who works in homecare who wants to know more about the business side of care.
- Any owner or manager who can’t seem to develop or grow their homecare business.
Your speaker:
David Beattie
Founder and Managing Director, Care Ideals
David Beattie has worked in health and social care for 23 years. From 2002 – 2014 he delivered positive change and growth to various large mental health and learning disability operations.
Since the beginning of 2015, David and Care Ideals have supported a wide range of care homes, domiciliary care providers, nursing homes and supported living services. Their input includes but isn’t limited to:
- increasing occupancy and weekly hours.
- improving profitability and margins.
- helping to make quality assurance and compliance more robust.
In addition to this operational and care delivery support, David is also focused on helping to upskill managers in social care, via the 6-day Care Ideals “Management Development Programme” and the 1-day “Run a Care Business, not a care service” course.
As David says: “Same old, same old won’t help social care, innovation will”.
Care Ideals
Care Ideals are business advisors who specialise in transforming care businesses. We work with owners and managers to make improvements across the board.
Our support includes:
- increasing occupancy and weekly hours
- growing revenue and margins
- safely reducing costs
- expanding community engagement and reach on social media
- conducting compliance visits (mock inspections)
- implementing systems that ensure a robust and effective governance process
- helping to create and maintain a healthy culture that’s rooted in accountability.
We’ll also guide the business to develop and implement a strategy for the medium to long-term i.e. to look beyond the “here and now” with the goal of future-proofing what you have!
Here’s a few examples of the results we’ve delivered:
- In just over two-years, we helped a small care home group to increase their net profit by 60%.
- Agency use in a large care home dropped from 1,715 hours in May 2024 to 333 hours in April 2025. Over the same period, their vacancies dropped from 15 in May 2024 to 3 in April 2025.
We’ve been there and done it many times, and we’ll do the same for your care business!
