CONSULTANCY & TRAINING FOR CARE HOME GROUPS
Improve catering standards, resident safety and dining quality across your care home group
Practical consultancy, training and hands-on support for senior care teams tackling food safety, compliance, IDDSI, nutrition, menu development and wider hospitality challenges across multiple homes.
45 minutes • No obligation to proceed • Choose a convenient time
When standards, safety or consistency need attention
Whether you’re responding to an immediate concern or looking to improve standards across your group, the right support needs to be practical, proportionate and workable across multiple homes.
Resident Safety & IDDSI
Support following choking concerns, dysphagia-related issues or where confidence in texture-modified food preparation and IDDSI standards needs strengthening.
Standards & Compliance
Help identifying gaps, improving food-safety systems and preparing teams where catering standards or compliance have become a concern.
Food, Nutrition & Menus
Practical support with nutrition and hydration, menu and recipe development, food quality and creating a better dining experience for residents.
People, Skills & Consistency
Hands-on development and training to improve staff knowledge, chef capability, dining service and consistency across multiple homes.
These issues rarely sit in isolation. Problems with standards, safety, food quality or staff capability can often be connected, particularly across multiple homes.
Specialist support tailored to your organisation
Every organisation is different, so support can be tailored to the challenge, the team and the scale of the care group — from targeted training and reviews through to practical consultancy and implementation support across catering, compliance and resident dining.
Food Safety, Standards & Insight
Identify gaps, strengthen systems and gain a clearer picture of where improvement is needed.
Implementation of food safety management systems
Mock EHO inspections
Data analysis
Nutrition, Menus &
Food Development
Develop food and menu approaches that balance nutrition, quality, practicality and resident experience.
Nutrition and hydration support
Menu development
Recipe development
IDDSI & Modified Food
Build confidence around safe, consistent and appealing texture-modified food through practical training that teams can apply in day-to-day care
Practical face-to-face IDDSI training
Modified-food preparation and presentation
Support for care-home teams working with texture-modified diets
Chef & Dining Development
Develop the people behind the service, from kitchen skills and standards to how residents are encouraged and supported at mealtimes.
Hands-on chef development
Dining-service training
Supporting teams to improve the resident dining experience
Not sure what support would be most appropriate?
Start with a short enquiry form, then choose the next step that suits you.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. REAL-WORLD SUPPORT.
Support designed to work in practice, not just on paper
Ollie combines extensive health and social care experience with a practical, hands-on approach to consultancy and training. Support is tailored to the organisation, the people involved and the challenges they are facing — with a focus on improvements that teams can understand, implement and maintain.
Extensive Health & Social Care Experience
Ollie brings extensive experience of catering and hospitality within health and social care, giving him a practical understanding of the standards, pressures and realities care organisations face.
Practical & Hands-On
Consultancy and training are grounded in real-world application, with practical support teams can use in their day-to-day work rather than theory alone.
Tailored to the Organisation
Support is adapted to the organisation, its people and the challenges being addressed rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.
Works Across the Organisation
Ollie works with senior leaders as well as chefs and frontline teams, helping translate organisational priorities into practical improvements that people can understand and apply.
Focused on Lasting Improvement
The aim is not simply to deliver a training session or produce a report, but to improve standards, confidence and what actually happens afterwards.
The strongest evidence is what happens afterwards. Clients have seen improvements in staff understanding, food presentation, dining experiences and confidence around IDDSI and modified-food provision.
What clients say about working with Ollie
From senior quality teams to frontline chefs, clients consistently highlight Ollie’s practical approach, sector knowledge and the difference his support makes in day-to-day care.
“Ollie completely changed my perspective. His expertise in IDDSI, combined with his creativity and passion, has transformed the way our homes prepare and present texture-modified meals.”
“We have seen residents become more engaged with mealtimes, eat more willingly and, in many cases, improve their nutritional intake.”
Tracey Curson
Quality Manager, Fortava Healthcare
“Oliver didn't just teach us the IDDSI frameworks; he helped us understand the ‘why’ behind the textures and testing methods. His training style is engaging, highly thorough, and tailored perfectly to frontline care teams.”
Alina Laura Bucurescu
RCH Care Homes
“The resounding message was ‘Oliver spoke to us on a chef level’. … We cannot recommend Oliver highly enough, we will be using his company to roll out the same trainings in all our other regions across the UK.”
Aaron Lumsdon
Enhance Catering
“I am aware that Oliver adapted his sessions to meet the individual needs and role specification expected at this service to maximise the impact and benefit of this session. I have seen the visual impact this has had on the meals that are now served which in turn will improve the experience of the people receiving these meals.”
Jake Wilcoxson
JakeW Consultancy Ltd
How it works
Getting started is straightforward. Tell Ollie what’s happening, choose how you'd like to continue, and together you can identify the most appropriate next step.
01 — Tell Ollie what’s happening
Complete the short enquiry form with some basic information about your organisation and the challenge or support you’re looking for.
02 — Choose how you'd like to continue
Book a convenient time for a 45-minute consultation, or ask Ollie to contact you by email first.
03 — Identify the right next step
Ollie will clarify the requirement and, where appropriate, recommend the most suitable support and provide a tailored proposal.
Let’s understand what your organisation needs
Whether you’re responding to a specific concern, looking to improve standards across your homes or simply want to understand what support would be most useful, start by telling Ollie a little about your organisation and what’s happening.
Start with a short enquiry form, then choose a convenient time for your 45-minute consultation.
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Practical consultancy and training for health and social care catering.
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