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Camille Leavold

Founder & MD

Home and live-in care provider

Camille Co-founded community care provider Abbots Care, which has grown to over 500 staff across three counties and boasts an overall Outstanding accreditation from the CQC. 

Commitment to innovation and investment in technology have been key contributors to this success. In fact, innovation is embedded as one of the organisation's core values:

"We value innovation, always looking for flexible and innovative approaches and never allowing bureaucracy or institutional thinking to get in our way."

One of the flagship initiatives to emerge from this philosophy is Abbots' employee wellbeing app, with Camille leading on the conception and development to ensure it meets her teams' needs. Features include feelings check-ins, peer-to-peer recognition, and a series of awards and rewards to recognise individual contributions. Abbots also has a Care Worker Customer Service Team which is dedicated to listening to - and finding solutions for - the issues that cause employee dissatisfaction.

The cumulative result is a staff turnover rate that is consistently much lower than the average for homecare and an extremely high new starter retention rate.