Community Integrated Care has announced that it will be merging with Scotland-based social care provider Inspire.
The merged charity name will remain Community Integrated Care, with only a “small amount of roles” to be potentially affected by the merger.
All frontline colleagues and managers will transfer to Community Integrated Care in line TUPE regulations.
Jim Kane, chief executive of Community Integrated Care, will lead the merged organisation while Inspire chief executive Linda Gray will step aside after six months.
Sara Murphy, Community Integrated Care’s managing director for Scotland, will lead Inspire’s teams afterwards.
Inspire will keep its own branding for the time being. A consultation process is underway to finalise the details of the merger.
Community Integrated Care is a £143m charity that employs 5,000 colleagues across the UK while Inspire has an income of around £15m, employs 570 staff and supports people across north east Scotland.
‘Challenging landscape in social care’
Jim Kane, chief executive officer at Community Integrated Care said: “The teams at Community Integrated Care and Inspire have been in discussions for a number of years about the exciting possibility of bringing our two organisations together.
“We’re delighted that the moment has finally arrived where we can take this confident step forward. The move presents many positives: the opportunity to learn new ways of working through best practice sharing, the ability to align resources to work more effectively, as well as supporting us to collectively build initiatives that will improve the lives of our people.
“Of course, we know that the challenging landscape in social care makes collaboration within our sector key. The union between our two organisations will not only support us to scale up and expand our work and mission across Scotland, but through a united voice, we hope that we can also have greater influence across the sector and demonstrate the true value of consolidation.”
Linda Gray, chief executive at Inspire, said: “Over the last few years, it’s been my honour to lead our charity in making great strides towards our ambition of being a care provider and employer of choice in Scotland. I’ve been proud to be involved in some huge successes: building quality Care Inspectorate grades, creating a positive reputation with our partners, and most importantly, fostering fantastic relationships with the people we support and their loved ones. We know that we can continue to achieve more of these great things by partnering with Community Integrated Care.”
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