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
We offer a one stop shop of services which provide help, advise and management support to:
• Securing funding
• Payroll
• Assessment support and support planning
• Setting up individualised care packages
• A dedicated Independent Living Advisor to help manage packages on a day-to-day basis
• 24/7 telephone service and a local support manager, all to ensure everything runs smoothly
• Employing your personal assistants on your behalf
• Insurance services
• Support planning
HomeCareDirect help people to recruit choose and manage their own personal assistant team, yet we will employ them on your behalf. You have all the choice and control that you would have if you employed your own personal assistants, but we deal with the responsibilities (and sometimes hassles!). That means we’ll sort out the payroll, insurance, holidays on your behalf so you can concentrate on living your life, your way.
Our costs are dependent on your individual needs and requirements. Once these have been discussed we can confirm a price.
Cost Details
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.
