Harrogate dementia care facility creates over 200 new jobs with new specialist site

Projex Building Solutions will advise a third facility in Harrogate for a dementia care provider which is expected to create up to 250 new jobs.

Vida Healthcare’s two existing facilities in Harrogate - Vida Grange and Vida Hall - have reportedly received ‘outstanding’ awards from the Care Quality Commission.

This latest venture, Vida Court, is a new purpose-built 67,000 sq ft facility located close to the town’s RHS Harlow Carr Gardens and will provide both residential and specialist dementia care accommodation across one hundred bedrooms.

Steve Morphet, healthcare director of Projex - which advised on all three facilities and will be providing project management and cost advice for Vida Court - said: “Today’s care home environments are almost unrecognisable from their outdated predecessors and remain a strong part of our portfolio.

“They bring unique construction challenges requiring close working knowledge of the sector, from national care standards through to the latest construction costs, and we believe we can bring value and efficiency to the development and construction process.”

Vida Court will include eight individual and independent houses, internal circulation areas for residents, all with level access to external gardens, communal spaces and health and wellbeing facilities.

The new building will adopt the successful tiered design from the company’s most recent home, Vida Grange, which opened in Pannal, Harrogate, in 2016 and will incorporate a new headquarters facility for Vida Healthcare’s board of directors and head office staff.

The company currently employs 450 staff which is expected to rise to 700 next year.

Work will start on site in autumn 2019 and is due for completion in late 2020.