First City Nursing Services, the Swindon-based care and nursing staff agency, has bought Rowan House, a two-storey office building in Stratton St. Margaret, from Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership.
The business, which supplies nurses and care assistants for private individuals’ home care and to nursing and care homes, is to use the 2,353 sq ft building as a head office and training centre for its 400 staff.
Property agent Keningtons’ Swindon office acted for the Partnership, which sold Rowan House as part of its strategy to reduce the size of its estate to make revenue savings and to modernise services.
Keningtons partner Jeremy Sutton said a number of inquiries were received for a variety of uses for the building, which is close to the Sandlewood Court hospital complex. First City, previously based in Victoria Road, bought it following a best-bid process.
First City operations director Stephen Trowbridge added: “We have been looking to purchase a freehold office property for some time but wanted something which would give us our own identity.
“First City has gone from strength to strength over the past two years, providing health and social care services to individuals in their own homes as well as short and long-term staffing solutions to establishments around Swindon and Wiltshire.
A sister Company, First City Training, is one of Swindon’s sector-based work academies with Government contracts to offer apprenticeships to young people looking for a career in care.”
Keningtons was instructed by Capita Symonds, retained property consultants for Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership.
