Home care provider announces 1,000 new jobs across Ireland

Taoiseach Micheál Martin with Home Instead CEO Shane Jennings and caregiver Ger Baldrick at the launch of the Global Workforce Report. Picture: Robbie Reynolds
One of the country’s largest home private home care providers has announced that it is to increase its Irish workforce by 25%.
Home Instead, which currently has a 4,000-strong caregiver team, said it will hire an additional 1,000 carers, 250 of whom will be based in the Munster region, including 100 in Cork.