Description

HomeCareDirect offer a third party service and employ your chosen personal assistants on your behalf. You’ll still have all the same choice and control yet you won’t have to take on the responsibility (and sometimes the hassles!) of being an employer

HomeCareDirect will work with you to recruit, train and manage personal assistants and to provide you with personal support – in the way you want to receive it.

We will employ your personal assistants on your behalf, helping you access all the benefits of having choice and control over your support yet without the responsibilities (and often hassles!) of being their employer.

Your chosen personal assistants will be trained and supervised to meet your personal needs such as helping you with: 
• Getting up, washed and dressed
• Eating/drinking
• Bathing/showering
• Toileting
• Medication
• Shopping
• Getting out and about

If you wish we can provide culturally appropriate services to people from South Asian Communities (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) recruit and employ personal assistants with language skills and knowledge of cultures of South Asian and other ethnic minority populations including African/Caribbean and Eastern European Communities.

Cost details

Please note the price shown is a typical cost for this service and is dependent on your individual needs and requirements. Once these have been discussed we can confirm a price.

Up to the point of you agreeing to HomeCareDirect helping you to manage your support package our services are free of charge, with no obligation. We want you to be sure that you want to use us!

We do then charge a nominal set up fee for putting your package together – which can be spread over 12 months.  

HomeCareDirect services cost £3.00 per hour of support provided, £17.28 a day for live-in care and £13.86 a night for sleep-in support.

These charges include:
• HomeCareDirect being the legal employer of your personal assistants on your behalf
• Employers liability insurance
• Full payroll service
• Insurance scheme to pay personal assistant’s sick, maternity or paternity pay (protecting your budget against such unforeseen costs)
• Full personal assistant recruitment service and support to identify training for them
• A 24/7 telephone support for you and your personal assistant’s
• Two personal assistant supervisions per year including and annual review
• Care Delivery to Care Quality Commission (CQC) national standards 
• Remote monitoring of service, helping to ensure your safety at all times

So depending on the service you want the cost of your package may range from £13.50 - £18.00 per hour. Remember though that each package of support is individual so please contact us for a more accurate picture of how this will be costed.

If you are a registered user of this website you can ask us any question, including questions about meeting your specific needs, by clicking on the ‘Request More Information’ tab above.