Hearing home visits service celebrates anniversary as long-serving director hits milestone
A home visits hearcare service is celebrating its one-year anniversary as one longstanding team member celebrates a huge milestone.
Specsavers Northumberland Home Visits Audiology is celebrating 12 months in business, while it’s audiology director Danielle Sheriff has hit 20 years with the company.
A part of the existing Newcastle Specsavers Home Visits business, which offers optical treatments to cover the entirety of Cumbria and Northumberland, the Northumberland audiology service has recently been joined by a new service covering Teesside also.
The business provides services such as hearing checks, hearing devicefittings and ear wax removal to those who are unable to travel to a store. It covers the entirety of Northumberland, South Tyneside, as well as Sunderland.
Since opening in October 2024, the team have had full clinics every day, serving both private and NHS patients across the region.
They have also been engaging with local groups and charities, such as Age UK, working with care homes and sheltered housing to do hearing health check days and recently held a clinic for World Homeless Day.
Serious work aside, the growing team have also had lots of fun on the road, spreading the word about their home visits service, with the odd game of bingo thrown into the mix.
Danielle, meanwhile, has been with Specsavers for two decades, joining the company after leaving school in 2005 and forging a career built on helping people.
She started out with an apprenticeship in admin before finding her passion for audiology, specifically working in the home visits team and becoming a partner in her own business across the North of England last year.
She says: ‘It’s been a whirlwind year, but one we are so proud of after setting up a service which helps so many people across the region.
‘Being able to make the difference of good hearing to these people makes all the hard work worthwhile.
‘I can’t believe I’ve been with Specsavers for 20 years – and I’m so pleased to still be here, now with my own business.
‘Starting out as an apprentice after leaving school and finding myself here now, running my own audiology business and following my passion, has been about hard work but also about being believed in and supported by colleagues at key stages of my journey at Specsavers.
‘I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way and can’t wait to see what the future holds for the business.’
The Specsavers Home Visits teams can visit patients at home, as well as in care homes and sheltered housing. For more information and to book an appointment, call Specsavers Home Visits service on 0191 933 6468 or visit https://www.specsavers.co.uk/home-eye-tests.
To find out if you’re eligible for a Specsavers home visit please follow the steps here: https://www.specsavers.co.uk/home-eye-tests/eligibility