Name: Perrine Rolland
Business: Penrose Care
Job title: Management trainee
Website: penrosecare.co.uk
Perrine joined Penrose Care as a home care support worker in the early days of the company. Her intelligence, hard work and commitment to our pioneering ethical framework resulted in her being promoted to a management trainee, and she is now on the path to becoming a care manager.
Perrine’s diligence and hard work has led to her consistently receiving five star reviews from the elderly people she supports. During the ongoing care crisis this is a particularly commendable achievement. Furthermore, following her promotion she has consistently achieved her educational targets needed to become a care manager.
I originally promoted Perrine because she naturally took the initiative to help her colleagues when they were stressed – a very important skill given that care can be a very stressful job at times.
Perrine has also shown incredible initiative and determination on branding projects. Notably, although it took a great deal of time and effort, she designed our Penrose Care silk scarves. I’m no fashionista, but they’re spectacular!
She combined her leadership skills and idea generation with the development of our company’s best practices meetings – a way for us to provide skills upscaling for our care workers.
Perrine has gone above and beyond the call of duty in promoting our ethical framework, which includes being one of the few London living wage employers in the home care sector. This has included her speaking on BBC News and at numerous events, including one where she spoke alongside [then] care minister Norman Lamb.
Robert Stephenson-Padron is managing director of Penrose Care
