Timeline

Our history so far...

Early Adulthood

After Alex left care, he was given an independent living opportunity, which included having his own flat. However, an exciting change in trajectory took Alex back to his parent’s homeland, Cyprus, to play football in a semi-professional capacity. When this came to an end and before Alex could return to the UK he had to complete a six-month National Service position in order to leave Cyprus.

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Journey Into Care Sector

Upon his return to the UK Alex worked a range of sales and hospitality positions. But he was more drawn to his responsibility in volunteering within his local community.

It was shortly after this that he was reunited by chance with one of his old carers who looked after him in a children's home, they suggested that he look for work in the care industry. Which he did. Alex joined an agency and found himself working full time in a children’s care home, not dissimilar to the one in which he grew up.

Alex worked in various children’s homes, including 15 years in a St Helens Council Run Secure Children's Home called Red Bank.

In 2014 he was made redundant from Red Bank and made the transition to Barton Moss secure children’s home and self funded his level 5 in Leadership and Management for Children’s Homes.

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First Step Into Business

During his time working for the council Alex was approached by a colleague who asked him for help organising and growing his business. Alex helped him on a voluntary basis setting up their infrastructure, this was until 2011 when Alex offered a 50% buy in and became Director.

Omega

In 2015 Alex made the leap to set up Omega, he re-mortgaged his home and was able to start his company supporting 16–18-year-old care leavers. To start, Omega had one care home under its belt with just three members of staff.

Alex then secured a second space which shorty became the second home in our portfolio. No sooner had the second home been established, the third and fourth followed suite as unregulated leaving care provisions.

In 2017 Alex and Mick set up SCITS, a Social Care Information Management System, which is designed to reduce paperwork in the homes and create a SMART way of working.

Then in 2020 Omega opened its first regulated Children's Home for a local council, where it was able to provide care for a very complex young people who made successful transition into an adult placement. Omega has since opened a further 3 regulated Children's Home's and have more in the pipeline.

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VR Training

The end of 2021 brought a new business venture for Omega with VR training. As remote working and learning became the norm, we understood the need for accessible and robust training. Our platform delivers live training and we have plans to expand the technology to other industries in the near future.

Our VR training introduces diverse technology and automated scenarios to show young people around prospective homes and to help them adjust before they even make their move.

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Future...

The future at Omega looks bright for us all as we continue to add to our arsenal of services and people.

For Omega Care, we are continuing to grow to have better facilities and opportunities for our looked after children. We invest time in finding the right staff and their training.

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Other avenues

Omega Education looks to bring education into today and to change the way that children learn. We want to prepare children in our care for the transition to mainstream schools to give them equal opportunities to peers and friends.

Omega Talent is a new venture looking to improve the industry by providing dedicated, well-trained, and reliable staff.

Our staff are prepared for the changes for unregulated homes for 16-17 year olds that come into factor in 2023. All our managers have been level 5 trained in Leadership and Management.

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What's next?

What’s Next? We are always thinking of new ways to improve the quality of care for everyone and would love to take you on our journey with us so sign up to our newsletter for all the latest updates.

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