Joseph Musgrave has led Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI) since 2018, bringing an essential mix of leadership and partnership to homecare in Ireland. Joseph passionately believes in an individual’s right to quality, regulated home care and that ‘There is no Place Like Home’. Over the last four years, as CEO of HCCI, Joseph has led an important public discussion about home care by highlighting the challenges the home care sector faces whilst putting a spotlight on the great work its member organisations do for their clients and the 10,000 carers who deliver care every day. At the height of the pandemic, home proved to be the safest place with infection rates rarely above 1% of the client base at any one time. In 2021, Joseph felt compelled to establish the annual HCCI Home Care Awards to recognise ‘unsung home care heroes’ — the carers who, on a daily basis, go above and beyond for our most vulnerable in society.
Each day, HCCI’s members provide vital home support services to more than 20,000 clients in their own home. Joseph is acutely aware of the significant and important role care in the home will continue to play in the lives of older and more vulnerable people for decades to come. HCCI has publicly said that Ireland is at a critical juncture when it comes to care of older people with many lessons learnt during the COVID pandemic.
Joseph’s earlier career was in Communications and Public Affairs having worked on the ‘Freedom to Marry’ campaign for the Conservative Party in the UK and as Chief of Staff for leading Communication Consultancy firm WPP Burson-Marsteller.