Cornfield Care Centre: creating 100 new jobs.
The creation of 100 new jobs at a nursing home in Limavady has been welcomed by local Sinn Fein Councillor Brenda Chivers.
The jobs are to be created with the opening of a new 52-bed extension to Cornfield Care Centre, on Seascoast Road in Limavady after a £3.4 million investment.
Eighty of the new jobs will be full-time posts and will bring the number of people employed at the Centre to 220.
Cllr Chivers said the creation of the new jobs was a “tremendous boost” to the entire community.
She added: “It is important that we create top class facilities that will give our senior citizens options to where they can retire and that their families can trust they are getting proper and professional care in the later years.
“This expansion is not only an economic boost but it will also help fulfil the need for quality accommodation for the elderly in this area.”
Cllr Chivers said the new jobs would also help offset some of the economic downtown the area had faced in recent years.
Owned and managed by husband and wife team Jervis and Jennifer Nutt, Cornfield first opened in 1999 and the latest expansion will see it increase to 127 beds dedicated to the care of the frail, elderly and Alzheimer’s/dementia sufferers.
The new purpose-built facility will combine state-of-the-art nursing equipment with accommodation services.
It is also hoped the new unit will provide additional business to local traders who provide food and medical supplies.
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