Belong at Home Didsbury & Altrincham

Barry brings over 20 years of experience in health and social care, including seven years as a Care Coordinator in homecare. His background spans a wide range of frontline and leadership roles, from Senior Home Care Assistant and Health Care Assistant to Acting Senior Care Assistant, giving him a deep and practical understanding of quality care delivery.

Alongside his hands-on expertise, Barry has worked in recruitment, administration, and coordination, equipping him with the operational insight needed to lead and develop the Didsbury service effectively.

He holds Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications in social care, as well as a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services – Adults Management.

This strong professional foundation underpins his commitment to leading the Didsbury service with confidence, professionalism, and a genuine passion for improving outcomes for those he supports.

Andrew joined the Belong at Home team as a community support worker in 2010 and was appointed to the role of senior community support worker shortly afterwards.

Since then he has been an important part of the community team, responsible for growing the service, whilst focusing on the service's core values to provide a flexible and quality-focused service in the wider community. In 2016 Andrew was awarded the title of 2016 Homecare Worker of the Year finalist at the Great British Care Awards. He has more recently been appointed to the position of area manager and will be responsible for Belong's personalised home care service in the Warrington and Didsbury areas.

Rachael is an outstanding trainer who has worked in the Health and Social Care sector for 29 years.

She started with Cheshire County Council in domiciliary care in 1996 and then joined CLS in 1997, where she worked as a Care Assistant and Care Team Leader before progressing to a Care Manager.

Recognising her passion for mentoring and developing others, she made the move to training company, Total People, where she worked for 15 years as a Training Advisor/Assessor/IQA supporting learners through various Health and Social Care qualifications at L2/3/5.

In 2017, she was appointed Practice Development Facilitator for Belong at Home, with responsibility for the professional development of our community support workers across all regions.

An invaluable member of our team, Rachael enjoys empowering others to be able to support customers in a person-centred way to ensure they receive continuity of high quality care.

Elaine brings a wealth of care sector experience to her role as Senior Enquiry Manager for Belong at Home and, above all, carries it out with enormous empathy and compassion.

She has supported the expansion of Belong’s home care service since 2016, providing advice, information and guidance to people seeking support in their own homes.

Prior to that she worked as Enquiry Manager for CLS Care Services for a number of years, applying her previous extensive experience as a frontline carer to bear in her ability to support enquirers through the process of finding the right care setting, as well as supporting managers to promote their care services effectively.

Elaine’s caring qualities have been honed over a long career in the care sector, which she first joined in 1988, holding a variety of roles, including Care Assistant, Activity Co-ordinator and Team Leader, before working as a highly effective Registered Home Manager for 15 years.