Signs That It’s the Right Time to Hire a Live-in Carer
Understanding Live-in Care and How It Works
Live-in care is something special, a comprehensive offering that enables you to remain living in your own home, with around-the-clock companionship and support. You’ll have a dedicated carer who will live in your home with you, who’ll offer a helping hand whenever you need it. You can’t put a price on being able to continue living at home, as it offers unparalleled comfort and familiarity, from knowledgeable professionals in your own area. Live-in carers work with one client at a time, or a couple in the same home, ensuring you get to live your life as independently as possible. Our carers go above and beyond, delivering both physical and emotional support. At Helping Hands, we work hard to match you with a carer who suits your personality, choosing people who share our ethos for exceptional, personalised care.
Key Signs It's Time to Consider a Live-in Carer
If you’ve been struggling to manage at home and are considering additional support, make sure it’s with a company that understands individualised care. Helping Hands have been supporting people across England and Wales since 1989, so you couldn’t be in better hands than ours.
Increasing Difficulty Managing Daily Tasks
If you’re finding it hard to keep your home clean and tidy, manage your medication, or make the most of your local surroundings, having a live-in carer to support you with practical tasks such as meal preparation and housework will vastly improve your everyday life.
Decline in Personal Hygiene or Home Cleanliness
Whether you’re struggling to look after yourself or your home, having someone with you who will manage all these tasks will benefit your physical and emotional wellbeing. Your loved ones may be concerned that you’re not managing, so it will also be reassuring for them.
Frequent Falls or Mobility Changes
Having a fall is distressing and potentially dangerous. Therefore, someone always being close by means you have constant reassurance that your mobility is supported. Whether you need someone on the stairs to avoid trips or a strong pair of hands to manage clutter, we can help.
Worsening Health Conditions
You may be living with a lifelong condition or newly diagnosed. However, our live-in carers can manage every aspect of your daily life, supporting a palliative care pathway or as you approach the end of your life. Exceptional training and knowledgeable carers keep you safe at home.
Increased Feelings of Loneliness or Isolation
Live-in care fulfils so much more than practical support needs. Living alone after many years of partnership or finding it difficult to leave the house alone leaves you at risk of loneliness and isolation. Therefore, a carer living with you means you’ll always have essential company.
Family Carers Experiencing Burnout
If your family has been providing the majority of your care, it can strain all your relationships. Having a live-in carer means you and your loved ones can focus on spending quality time together again, rather than coping with the difficulties of providing essential care.
Finding the Right Live-in Carer With Helping Hands
Our carers are exceptional people, which is why we’re so confident that you’ll have the very best experience with them living in your home. The people we employ have to demonstrate compassion at heart before we’ll allow them to care for our customers. We build on their knowledge and supply continuous training and development to ensure they’re always confident in their care delivery. We have far more applicants than we’ll ever take on because we’re so discerning in our assessment and selection processes, encouraging them to build their careers with us and seek promotion when they’re ready. Many of our managers began as carers with us, and we love that such dedicated teams run our branches across England and Wales. We believe that our carers achieve such job satisfaction because we look after them as well as they look after our customers. We’ll work tirelessly to ensure you have the best person living in your home with you and supporting your daily life, someone who will quickly become a friend.
How our live-in care compares
- A centrally-managed service
Directly employed carers
Directly employing carers mean they receive company benefits, holiday pay and are covered by another carer if absent.
Regionalised service with centralised support
Your care team will be local to you, but you and your loved ones have the reassurance of a large infrastructure of support too, thanks to our dedicated centralised support office teams.
Experienced managers in every branch
Our local managers live in the area and have often worked their way up through the company from carers, so they understand how people in the local area wish to be cared for.
Standardised training across the company
All of our carers develop their skills through the same programme of accredited learning, so you’ll always receive the same high level of care from us regardless of your location.
A fully regulated service by the CQC & CIWIndependent Inspections
Audits conducted by a regulatory body to give you peace of mind that we do what we say we will do by providing a safe, responsive and well-led service.
Fully-vetted and approved carers
Our carers are vetted and checked through a robust recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check, alongside standardised training across the company.
Comply with regulatory standards
We have to comply with regulatory standards to maintain our registration, meaning full reassurance that you are receiving a high standard of care.
Regulated training for all our carers
Training for all carers and staff is in line with the Care Certificate, meaning our employees are trained to a nationally-recognised standard before they work unsupervised with our customers.
- A centrally-managed service
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Helping HandsUnregulated care agencies
Directly employed carers
Directly employing carers mean they receive company benefits, holiday pay and are covered by another carer if absent.
Regionalised service with centralised support
Your care team will be local to you, but you and your loved ones have the reassurance of a large infrastructure of support too, thanks to our dedicated centralised support office teams.
Experienced managers in every branch
Our local managers live in the area and have often worked their way up through the company from carers, so they understand how people in the local area wish to be cared for.
Standardised training across the company
All of our carers develop their skills through the same programme of accredited learning, so you’ll always receive the same high level of care from us regardless of your location.
- Fully regulated service by CQC & CIW
-
Helping HandsUnregulated care agencies
Independent Inspections
Audits conducted by a regulatory body to give you peace of mind that we do what we say we will do by providing a safe, responsive and well-led service.
Fully-vetted and approved carers
Our carers are vetted and checked through a robust recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check, alongside standardised training across the company.
Comply with regulatory standards
We have to comply with regulatory standards to maintain our registration, meaning full reassurance that you are receiving a high standard of care.
Regulated training for all our carers
Training for all carers and staff is in line with the Care Certificate, meaning our employees are trained to a nationally-recognised standard before they work unsupervised with our customers.