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Adlington Retirement Living bolsters operations team with four promotions

Adlington Retirement Living has announced four internal promotions and is actively recruiting for seven new roles as part of its ambitious growth plans.

Sharon Bossons, who has been promoted to Senior Operations Manager, said: “We set up Adlington Management Services in 2019 to bring the operations of our retirement communities in-house and provide a consistently outstanding service to our homeowners. I’ve been involved with that from day one.

“My team are responsible for the practical aspects of running a retirement community, such as maintaining the building, as well as the more emotional aspects that create a caring, supportive environment and positively contribute to the health, happiness and well-being of our homeowners. We ensure that every homeowner’s experience exceeds their expectations.”

Aimee Clayton has moved from General Manager at The Cottons in Ramsbottom to join the central team as Operations Manager and Donna Cowell has moved from General Manager at The Woodlands in Heaton Mersey to join the central team as Well-being and Hospitality Manager. In Sheffield, Nick Beedham has been promoted from Duty Manager to General Manager.

Sharon added: “Every member of our team has a genuine passion for what we do. To be able to make such a difference to people and to support homeowners enjoying their retirement to the full is so rewarding. Over the years, I’ve seen first-hand so many individual stories, where moving to a retirement living community has made a huge difference to the homeowners and to their family.”

The four promotions are part of a move to scale up the Adlington Retirement Living team as part of its growth strategy. Since 2009, the business has launched 15 Independent Retirement Communities across the North West, Yorkshire, Wales and the Midlands. Having already grown to three sites every year, the family owned and run business is now looking to achieve six new retirement community sites a year.

Dr Ed Gladman, CEO of Adlington Retirement Living, said: “We’re growing our team as part of our commitment to make that happen. In the past six years we have grown from 30 employees to a team of more than 150, with experts from land acquisition, planning, architectural and technical design, to procurement, construction, sales & marketing, legal and community operations. We’re now recruiting for a number of roles ranging from General Managers to architects, quantity surveyors, structural engineers and a Senior Interior Designer.”

Adlington Retirement Living is one of the top three companies that designs, builds and operates Integrated Retirement Communities in the UK and has more than 950 happy homeowners. A recent homeowner survey confirmed that 100% would recommend living in an Adlington Retirement Community to friends or family.

Dr Ed Gladman adds: “Our vision is to empower the older generation to live a long, happy and healthy life. We do this by creating quality retirement communities in safe and secure environments and providing our homeowners with a wide variety of activities, extensive communal facilities and beautiful private gardens.”

Four of Adlington’s communities have won Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards for the Best Retirement Development at the WhatHouse? Awards, the UK housebuilding’s most prestigious event. The Folds in Romiley and the Bridges in Macclesfield won the Silver Award in 2020 and 2019, Adlington House in Otley won the Gold Award in 2017 and Adlington House in Portishead won the Bronze Award in 2015.

Adlington Retirement Living was also crowned Seniors Housing Developer of the Year and its new retirement community in Heaton Mersey, Stockport, won Seniors Housing Scheme of the Year at the HealthInvestor Seniors Housing Awards 2022.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Anna Thomas .