General Business Consultancy
Running a care agency business is a fulfilling, rewarding and challenging process. Disruptive and unexpected events that threaten to harm people or property, seriously interrupt operations, damage reputation, or impact the bottom line may occur. These events can cost you money, hurt productivity, and can easily threaten the long-term health of your business, especially if you aren’t ready, and this is where we come in. Our professional consultants help you develop tailor-made solutions to prevent, prepare for and respond to unforeseen events.
Why consult with us in general business issues?
- Without a plan you’re more likely to be viewed as incompetent, liars, or outright ‘bad guys’
- Without a plan, you’re guaranteed to lose more money than you needed to.
- Without a plan, you’re going to make more mistakes.
Common disruptive events that usually affect agencies.
- Sudden departure or absence of a key member of Senior Management Team.
- Tribunal hearings and Court summons
- Untoward deaths.
- Loss / Failure to find clients
- Staff redundancies and dismissals
- Non-compliance with CQC, NHS or CCG regulations or contracts.
- Absence / failure of Clinical Leadership / Governance
- Multiple sites entering non-compliance stretching internal resources (Federation GP’s)
- Notice of Proposal or Notice of Decision responses and subsequent tribunal support
- Large Scale Enquiries / Organisational Safeguarding Enquiries.
Some ways in which our consultants can be able to help you.
- Help you in preparing for regulatory inspections and ensure standards are maintained to a high standard
- Assist you in developing strategies to reduce the impact of any negative situation that may be affecting your business.
- Guide and support you in preparing for court and tribunal hearings.
- Guidance in compliance and regulatory polices.
- An in-depth understanding of managing employee rights, entitlements, dismissing and redundancies and staff files.
- Guidance on CQC Standards and mandatory training, recruitment requirements and obligations.
Our approach
1. Information gathering.
You complete a detailed questionnaire to help us have a clear understanding of the state of your business.
2. Analysis.
Our expert consultants analyse the information you provided to identify all aspects of your business that need attention and pull together tailor made frameworks that are best suited for your business needs.
3. One on One meeting.
A one-hour one on one session with our consultant to walk you through our recommended action plan for your business. We also send you a written detailed report outlining our recommendations, including a clear actionable to-do list in order of priority and timing.
4. Follow up.
A thirty-minute follow up via phone call or email to find out how successful were you in implementing all recommendations and if you were able to achieve the desired results.
Growing Your Business
Unit Consultancy can help you improve your business in various ways. Our expertise and experience has supplied us with the specific tools to improve your business and deliver the desired results.