Pictured: Sushila Patel (Manager) and Teresa Hooper (Deputy Manager),  

Sushila Patel (Manager) and Teresa Hooper (Deputy Manager), with Sutton Coldfield based Care Companions Ltd are celebrating after reaching the regional finals in the category "The Care Employer Award" with less than 250 employees. 

The Great West Midlands Care Awards form part of The Great British Care Awards, which are a celebration of excellence across the care sector. The purpose of the awards is to promote best practice within the sector and pay tribute to those individuals and organisations who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work.

Sushila commented: "I am absolutely thrilled with this accolade as it recognises the value we place on our staff and regard as our greatest asset".

Teresa added: "We have an open door policy so staff can come and see us whenever they want, even if it is not work related. Our ethos is to care for and nurture our staff as we believe happy staff lead to happy clients".

Sushila set up Care Companions to help and support people to remain independent in their own homes. The company has built a fantastic reputation for service excellence and been nominated for several awards. Only staff that genuinely care about people's health and wellbeing are recruited, trained and mentored to realise their potential. Care Companions is a small but ever growing organisation that believes in high quality and consistent care in the community, with Dementia clients being the forefront of the service.