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Live-in Care
The option to be cared for in the comfort of your own home is a service that Cleeve Hill Live-in Care has been providing for 3 years. We produce individual packages completely targeted to the client’s needs and our carers are focused on fitting in with the client’s routines and way of living.
The Carer's Role
Carer's Working Hours - what to expect
Areas Available
Selecting Nurses and Personal Assistants
Prospective Carers
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LIVE IN CARE
SERVICE
A carer can live with and care for you in your own home.
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The Carers’ Role
Our carers are a companion for the client and can attend to duties such as personal care, cooking and light domestic work and, depending on the client’s fitness and wishes could also provide transportation and company to appointments and days out.
Some clients need extra care and sometimes continuous care. In these cases, a carer or a team of carers will give the closest support necessary in order to allow the client to continue to live at home in a safe and comfortable environment with all the required care provided by the dedicated team.
Carers working hours – what to expect
In most cases, a dedicated carer will provide the service for up to 6 days a week with a relief carer coming in to cover for days off, holidays and any periods of sickness. However, where high levels of personal care need to be provided, it may be that one carer will stay for 4 days and a second carer will work the other three days of each week. The main carers would need to have a longer period of leave every 13 weeks when he or she would be away for one or two weeks and then would return for another 13 weeks; helping to ensure as little disruption to routine as possible.
Areas available
The beautiful Cleeve Hill Nursing Home based in Bishops Cleeve is the operational base for the Live-in care service. The service is available within a 45 mile radius of Cheltenham including Ledbury, Tewkesbury, Cirencester and Stroud. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have a long term need which you would like to discuss which is further afield.
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Selecting nurses and personal assistants
In order to maintain the excellent quality of care that we offer at Cleeve Hill Nursing Home and our Cleeve Link service, steps are taken to ensure that we recruit the highest standard of nurses and personal assistants. Before we talk about the recruitment process, we feel that it is important to highlight that a good character and caring nature within the potential carer are important factors that we take into account. The carers spend a lot of time, both day and night, in the client’s home and it is important that the person they are caring for is totally at ease.
The carer is also carefully selected based on their qualifications, references which will have been checked by us and a Criminal Records Bureau check (CRB). Once this selection process has been successfully completed, a training programme is undertaken at Head Office which lasts until we are satisfied the carer is capable of taking on the assignment. During the training period, the carer will undergo evaluation testing to check proficiency levels and to start the process of carefully matching the carer’s qualifications, temperament and personal attributes with the Client’s needs to ensure a sucessful relationship.
Prospective carers
Positions are available for both Live-in nurses and Live-in carers. Our clients need dedicated, flexible and compassionate carers to live with them in their homes for up to 6 weeks at a time. You will need the following personal traits and qualifications to join the Live-in Care team.
You will need to have a caring nature and the ability to provide emotional support as well as physical help around the house. Your communication skills must be of a high standard.
We welcome prospective carers from outside of the UK however you must obtain permission to work in the UK if appropriate. You must be at least 23 years of age and a full driving licence would be an advantage.
Excellent references will be required and a CRB police check will be undertaken.
If you are interested and you think you have the right personal traits for a rewarding job as a carer, please contact us on 01242 672022.