Bridgewater Home Care Franchise Opportunity
With our proven business model, comprehensive support, and strong reputation, you can build a rewarding and successful home care business.
About Bridgewater Home Care
At Bridgewater Home Care we specialise in providing relationship focussed care for vulnerable adults from the comfort of their own home.
We believe that everyone deserves access to high quality, reliable and trustworthy care that is delivered with dignity, and centred around the individual. To us it is more than providing a home care service, it is about enhancing the lives of others through care, compassion, friendship, and support.
What makes Bridgewater Different?
At Bridgewater Home Care, we are passionate about providing high-quality private home care services.
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What we provide
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| Hands on experience |
| Mentoring from owner |
| Operational systems included |
| Experience as franchisee |
| Hybrid market focus |
| Corporate sales structure |
| Territories readily available |
| Traditional Franchises |
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| Hands on experience |
| Mentoring from owner |
| Operational systems included |
| Experience as franchisee |
| Hybrid market focus |
| Corporate sales structure |
| Territories readily available |
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| Hands on experience |
| Mentoring from owner |
| Operational systems included |
| Experience as franchisee |
| Hybrid market focus |
| Corporate sales structure |
| Territories readily available |
Phil Eckersley, Founder, Bridgewater Home Care Becoming a Franchise Partner with Bridgewater Home Care is a life changing opportunity to gain financial control of your future and achieve a better work-life balance. You will positively change the lives of those you serve in your local community. It is not just owning a business; it is becoming a respected leader and a catalyst for change.
The Bridgewater Way: Our Franchise Process
Vetting Process
Following our first conversation, we’ll invite you to take part in an online assessment, as well as a telephone or video interview. This helps us ensure that our partnership will be a success. You’ll receive feedback based on 3 outcomes: approved, development needed, or not suitable. Where there are multiple candidates interested in a territory, you may need to undergo further assessment.
Discovery meeting
Our franchise process begins with a discovery meeting. This gives us an opportunity to get to know each other, such as finding what appeals to you about becoming a franchisee, and whether Bridgewater is the right fit for you.
Crossing the bridge
After the discovery meeting, we support the prospective franchisee by finding out what finance they might require and asking them to complete a business plan. We feedback on this, and once everything is finalised they agree on their exclusive territory.
Launch
After a successful assessment process, you are now ready to launch your Bridgewater Home Care franchise! We will provide you with the following start up support:
- Franchisee training programme
- Office location support
- Business planning
- Care Manager recruitment
- Local website
- Marketing pack
- And much more!
Our Core Values
Our values of quality, reliability and trust are the pillars that support everything we do at Bridgewater Home Care, from the moment we began our journey to how we work today. It is our priority to provide the highest standards of care, ensuring that loved ones receive tailor-made support from the comfort of their own home.
Ensuring our clients are more than happy in our care is our top priority. Our team of care specialists recognise the importance of meeting every client with a smile and anticipating their needs. At Bridgewater Home Care, the meaning of reliability is building trust and peace of mind that our clients won’t get anywhere else.
At Bridgewater Home Care, our team is dedicated to providing care services that improve our clients’ quality of life. We take time to listen to each of our clients’ specific needs and requirements; tailoring our support so we can exceed their expectations.
We’re driven by a passion for delivering care that genuinely enhances lives. We understand each client’s unique needs and preferences, and tailor our support to ensure they receive the kind of care we’d want for our own family members.
Open communication is the pinnacle of our services – it drives our specialists to ensure they’re providing the best care possible. We don’t expect to earn our clients’ trust overnight, but we’re dedicated to nurturing our relationship with them until they put their faith in us.
Our Franchise Support Team
Phil Eckersley
Founder, Bridgewater Home Care
Sally Kelly
Brand Compliance Manager
Tracey Morris
Finance Manager
Maxine Shacklady
Recruitment and Training Manager
Len Rainford
Franchise Support Consultant
Olivia Eckersley
Marketing Manager
Challenges you may face as a franchisee – and how Bridgewater helps you overcome them…
No business model is without its challenges. Here are some you might encounter when becoming a franchisee – as well as how Bridgewater helps you overcome them:
Value for money
One challenge you might face when you become a franchisee is getting value for your money. After all, buying a franchise is an investment that you’ll want to see a return on.
This can be hard to find when it comes to working with certain franchises that favour their own profitability over helping their franchisees. But, working with Bridgewater Home Care is different. We see ourselves as ‘the franchise built for franchisees’.
From day one, you will have access to a full suite of operations systems that are all included in the monthly service fee. What’s more, you receive unlimited support – including monthly mentoring sessions with Phil in your first year, and regular ongoing audits from our standards team. So you can be sure you’re getting the best value for money.
Experience vs CQC compliance
If you have no experience in the care sector, the prospect of registering with the CQC and following CQC regulations might be daunting.
Fortunately, our support team can help you with your CQC registration, as well as help you to comply with CQC requirements the moment you set up your franchise business.
Our leading policies and procedures ensure your business is compliant with CQC regulations, so you can be confident that your business is fully prepared for CQC inspection, and you’re providing clients with the best care possible.
Territory size
Another challenge you might face when becoming a franchisee in home care is deciding on your territory and its size. Bridgewater Home Care has built territory sizes through years of experience, blending the right mix of opportunity and profitability, whilst avoiding the risk of underresourcing or underserving a territory.
Some home care franchises will have limited territories available, with a number of people bidding to take ownership of them. At Bridgewater Home Care, we are focused on finding the right person to join our brand, rather than having a corporate culture of selling to the highest bidder.
With Bridgewater Home Care, you can create a bespoke territory around your preferences and the community where you live. What’s more, this territory is exclusive to you upon signing the franchise agreement.
Franchises in Home Care: FAQs
If you feel like you would be a great fit for Bridgewater Home Care, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our franchise team.
The journey to becoming a Franchise Partner starts with a discovery meeting, enabling us to get to know each other better. The second step is an online assessment, telephone or video interview. Upon successful assessment and acceptance into the Bridgewater Family you will be given initial start-up support to help you launch your business.
Call: 0800 3557888 Email: franchise@bridgewaterhomecare.co.uk
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Yes, all our Franchise Partners receive their own exclusive territory upon signing of the Franchise agreement. Bridgewater also provide the support to ensure marketing is territory-specific and assist with initial local demographic analysis along with assistance with market research.
Bridgewater Home Care are regulated by the Care Quality Commission. Franchise Partners receive support registering with the CQC and ongoing support to help conform to, and exceed, CQC regulatory requirements. Our brand compliance team helps Franchise Partners to work in line with our policies & procedures, to stay within employment law and to meet GDPR compliance requirements.
We look for individuals who share our passion and commitment to delivering the best quality service to enhance the lives of our clients. We want to work with franchisees who will follow the Bridgewater Home Care business model, and who will become an ambassador for the Bridgewater brand.
Our Franchise Partners must be UK based, have a full-time commitment to the business and be prepared to consistently work to grow the business. Our company is built on effective communication and supporting one another so we welcome individuals who share these values and strive for excellence in their everyday role.
Our Franchise Support team provide initial and ongoing help & support to franchisees as they progress through their Bridgewater journey. The team is made up of brand compliance experts, recruitment and retention support, finance and IT support as well as a dedicated point of contact and franchise support staff.
Support for Franchise Partners includes both initial and ongoing assistance and is delivered in a variety of methods, such as branded marketing packages, training courses, video or face-to-face mentoring meetings as well as regular contact through emails and calls
The initial franchise investment is £35,000 + VAT with a recommended total working capital requirement of between £100,000 – £120,000.
The Bridgewater Home Care Franchise opportunity offers superb value and an excellent return on investment in an industry with huge scope for growth.
The role of a Franchise Partner is to grow the business, oversee the day-to-day operations and ensure that staff and clients are well supported. A typical day could involve resource planning, liaising with clients or local health and social care professionals, recruitment and retention of staff, local marketing campaigns and ensuring CQC and brand compliance standards are met.
In the home care industry it is often said that no two days are the same, which makes it such an interesting and rewarding occupation. You will work with a variety of stakeholders, including your own Bridgewater Care Specialists and office team, your suppliers, clients and a wider network of individuals such as local health and social care professionals, local press and your dedicated franchise support team.
Bridgewater Home Care is a professional, well-established, UK-grown business with decades of experience in the home care industry. Operating since 2010 in the marketplace, we have secured an excellent reputation for the highest quality of care and have been recognised as an employer of choice along with many other outstanding accolades that make us so proud to do what we do.
Bridgewater Home Care has won a number of prestigious awards, which include:
- The Smith & Henderson Best Employer in Care
- North West E3 Business Awards Employer of the Year, High Growth Business of the Year, and Special Achievement award
- Trainer of the Year Award at the North West Great British Care Awards
- Employer of the Year at the North West Business Awards
- Employer of the Year and Wellbeing in the Workplace at the Greater Manchester Business Awards
- Entrepreneur of the Year at the Greater Manchester Business Awards
We have an enviable position in the marketplace, being very attractive to the private paying market through our reputation and marketing practices and providing excellent value for money.
Franchisees come from a broad range of backgrounds whether it be from the health or social care industry or the corporate world. It isn’t necessary to have prior experience but simply a passion to make a difference to the lives of others.
We are looking for motivated people who share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the local community through providing the highest quality of care and support.
Our core business is supporting and caring for vulnerable adults in their own homes. We predominantly work with private paying clients to provide a breadth of services to suit the needs of the individual, offering companionship, home help, personal & specialist care.
Start your Bridgewater journey today
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