ABOUT 40 jobs are to be created with the multi-million pound extension of a care home.
The jobs for nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, healthcare assistants and kitchen and domestic staff will be created at Belle Vue Care Home, in Middlesbrough.
Work has already started on the £3.3m extension to the home next to The James Cook University Hospital.
The project, being carried out by Belle Vue Healthcare, has received backing from Yorkshire Bank.
Dr Dilip Acquilla, who founded the business with his wife, Dr Sushma Acquilla, in 1996, said: “We are pleased to be expanding with this exciting new facility and creating new jobs at a time when the public sector is facing cutbacks and unemployment is high.”
The 43-bed extension, which will open in September, will include 16 assisted elderly living places, each with its own front door, and 27 in a specialist unit for young chronic sick people aged 18 and over.
Dr Acquilla said: “The young chronic sick unit is a badly-needed facility which will cater for residents from throughout the North-East.”
Belle Vue Care Home caters for 60 local authority and private residents and employs 75 staff.
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