Mission At Routes Healthcare, we believe that "HOME is where the heart is". Our mission is to transform healthcare by creating genuine human connections that go beyond medical treatment. We're committed to providing care that feels personal, supportive, and empowering - because true healing happens when people feel valued, understood, and at home in their healthcare journey.
Our Values: *Heartfelt - We create genuine connections through understanding and empathy, taking time to know each person's story so we can provide truly meaningful care. Every interaction is grounded in compassion and authentic human connection.
*Open - We believe in being honest, straightforward, and holding ourselves accountable. We listen actively and maintain transparency in all our relationships, always striving to make a positive difference through open communication and trust.
*Meaningful - We are driven to make a real difference in people's lives. Whether through small gestures or life-changing support, we ensure everyone feels valued and understood. Our work has purpose, and that purpose is improving lives.
*Empowering - We empower people to reach their potential by encouraging independence, building confidence, and creating opportunities for growth. We believe in people's ability to thrive when given the right support and resources.
At Routes Healthcare, these values aren't just words on a wall—they're the foundation of how we approach every patient interaction, team collaboration, and community partnership. We're building a healthcare experience where everyone truly feels at home.
Description For nearly 20 years, we've been helping families navigate some of life's most challenging chapters, supporting people to stay where they belong: at home.
We operate across Northern England with around 1,400 staff delivering home care, live-in care, complex clinical care, and end of life care. We're CQC Good-rated and have been since 2009. We're also part of the Brain Injury Group, reflecting our expertise in supporting people with complex needs.
What makes us different? Our HOME values guide everything we do - even for our employees.
Heartfelt: Your compassion drives everything we do. We see it, we value it, and we create space for it to flourish in our work culture.
Open: We're transparent about challenges and honest about what we can offer. No corporate spin, just real conversations about real careers.
Meaningful: Every role here connects directly to people's lives. Whether you're delivering care, coordinating services, or supporting our teams, your work matters.
Empowering: We invest in your development because we believe in growing our own leaders. Many of our managers started as Care Assistants.
Our History
For over two decades, Choices Homecare has been providing award-winning care and support to individuals and families. What began as a single small office in Huddersfield in 1999 has grown into a network of 12 offices across the North of England. Our services have expanded to include homecare, dementia care, and home-based respite.
Founded in 2023, Stonewood Complex Care was created with a simple but powerful vision: to allow people needing complex care to remain at home. With the people and places that matter to them. Working as an NHS Matron, our founder Tom Monaghan witnessed first had the difficulties faced by people requiring complex and specialist care in their own home. Armed with the experience and knowledge of the ways in which care could be improved for clients and carer workers – Stonewood was born!
Since our beginnings, we’ve grown from a small team of passionate caregivers into a trusted provider of nurse-led complex care, working with both Case Managers and NHS Commissioners, serving the North-West and The Midlands. We specialize in building bespoke teams of highly trained carers who are able to blend the clinical care we provide, with the home environments we work in.
We are proud at Stonewood to have a track record of developing our colleagues and teams, with a management team built up of people who have worked ‘hands-on’ in the care sector - meaning we understand the needs of each role. We are also able to demonstrate our commitment to promoting and training our colleagues with an active NVQ programme and care colleagues being promoted into senior office roles
Routes Healthcare has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 68 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Routes Healthcare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).
Overall, 58% of employees would recommend working at Routes Healthcare to a friend. This is based on 68 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
100% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Routes Healthcare as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Routes Healthcare.