Monthly Archives: November 2022

“Working at ASC feels like home – and it’s helped me as a parent too”

"In all the time I've done agency work, never once have I gone into a home and thought I'd want to work there permanently," says Alison McMahon. That was until she came to ASC's specialist care facility in Balbeggie. "The team welcomes everyone from Day One," says Alison, a Staff [...]

2022-11-30T13:18:17+00:0030 November 2022|News|

The support worker who turned his love for specialist care into a passion for training

Stewart Hutcheson started thinking about a career in care in the most unlikely place: a gym. As a leisure attendant working in a fitness facility in Dundee, he got talking to a support worker who was bringing children with disabilities to use the trampoline. "I got talking to him [...]

2022-11-29T21:08:42+00:0029 November 2022|News|

“I heard it was a brilliant place to work, that no two days are the same”

Laura McKechnie got her first taste of a caring role as a child. "My mum and dad had a late baby when I was 11. So I was quite maternal with her and I did the childcare if my granny couldn't make it." The start of Laura's working life [...]

2022-11-30T12:57:50+00:0029 November 2022|News|

Double, Double – no toil or trouble – just spooktacular goings on!

So many fabulously horrible halloween parties across Balhousie Care yesterday - we just had to share some of the spookily superduper photos. Including our unique specialist care facility, ASC in Balbeggie, Perthshire where our fantastic residents love to celebrate Halloween to the max - complete with coffin and a [...]

2022-11-02T11:22:28+00:002 November 2022|News|