Avery Healthcare is delighted to announce that stage and TV actress and media personality Sherrie Hewson has been appointed as an Ambassador for its care home group.
Now passionately concerned about the senior adult social sector, following on from her own mother’s experience of being in care, she is very interested in the Avery quality approach to care and standards delivered in resident services. She sees that Avery are at the forefront of best in practice in the sector and is keen to support the importance and meaning behind good care and services and get involved with what Avery do. Conscious that “We are all going there” in her terms regarding later life, she is now a prominent voice in the quest for better care for those needing support in the senior generation. She was therefore keen to get behind the Avery model and message.
Sherrie is currently one of the key characters in Benidorm on ITV, as character Joyce Temple-Savage, which is soon to tour UK theatres as a stage show from September. Amongst many career highlights to date she appeared for 14 years on Loose Women, had two stints in Coronation Street as Maureen Webster, appeared as Lesley Meredith in Emmerdale, spent ten years on the Russ Abbot Show, and appeared on Crossroads and In Loving Memory. She also appeared in Z Cars and Carry On Behind and Carry On Laughing. 
Sherrie will be visiting all 54 of the Avery care homes around the country in the next year and bringing her energetic and lively personality to delight the residents and staff alike.
Avery Healthcare has a current portfolio of 50 care homes nationwide, with more new developments in build. They also have four independent living retirement communities with a fifth about to open in early 2018.
As a progressive and innovative care provider Avery continues to be recognised for its quality and contribution to the sector; it was Residential Care Provider Of The Year in 2016 from two awarding bodies, its focus on training and development won it Large Employer of the Year at the 2017 Qube Training Awards, and the Environment Health awarded all the kitchens across all their locations with the 5-Star EHO catering rating. It has just been awarded with the Hospitality Assured accreditation at one of their independent living (IL) locations, and will role this hotel standards award out to all its IL communities. It is the first care sector provider to have a qualification for advanced senior carers to be accredited by City and Guilds, a big step forward in helping to vary the skills mix in care to support the pressure on the nurse role.
