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Carers at Home
home care agency and live in care agency

Established in 2007 providing home care in Godalming and the surrounding areas, Carers at Home is a care agency now specialising in providing home care in Surrey and  Hampshire and live in care across the south of England including Kent, Sussex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire. We provide assistance to people allowing them to remain living at home. Clients are given the extra help they need in maintaining their everyday life.

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Our experienced and well trained staff offer home care, live-in care and companionship which allows people to live a normal and happy life in the comfort of their own home.

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Our home care and live-in care services promote independence. It’s at home where quality of life is enhanced without the stress of interrupting routines and changes in daily habits. Companionship is as important as health care, helping to enable clients to remain independent

Who Carers at Home 
cares for

Carers at Home provides CQC regulated home care and live-in care and support services to seniors, people with disabilities or special needs, people coping at home after hospitalisation or illness, or anyone requiring help in the home.

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Home care services can be arranged for a few hours a week or everyday, sometimes four times a day. Short term respite relief or longer term care is available seven days a week or live-in care, including public holidays.

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  • Senior Citizens

  • People with disabilities

  • People with special needs

  • Patients recovering from a hospital visit

  • Patients recovering from an illness

  • Anyone requiring help in the home

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  • A few hours a week

  • A few days a week

  • Seven days a week

  • Several times a day

  • Short term

  • Long term

  • Bank holiday

Helping relatives stay in touch

 

Many relatives use Carers at Home to keep in touch with elderly family, especially when they are overseas or living far away and unable to visit regularly.

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The comfort of knowing our care workers are undertaking regular home care visits or providing live-in care from a reputable caee, assisting with activities of daily living and companionship eliminates that worry.

Qualifications

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To ensure that we provide a high quality workforce for both home care and live-in care, the standards for our managers and staff are based on the National Occupational Standards for the Care Industry set by the National Training Organisation.

 

Our Induction programme leads to the Skills for Care Certificate which was developed jointly by Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health.

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Achievement of the Certificate through Induction training ensures that care workers have the required values, behaviour, competence and skills to provide high quality, compassionate care.

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We are fully committed to staff training and development. In order that standards of care are achieved and maintained, staff have to complete an Induction course and have to attend regular formal training sessions.

Development and Training

Both home care staff and live-in care staff undergo regular supervision and annual appraisals. They are fully trained on; moving and handling, health and safety, prevention of adult abuse, food hygiene and first aid.

Managers or supervisors providing specialist home care or live-in care services have the knowledge and understanding of those specific services for which they are responsible. We monitor the requirements for staff training and qualifications.
 
Staff undergo annual appraisals which identify any required refresher training or development needs. This is then incorporated into the staff training and development programme.

Are you looking for an outstanding home care or live-in care agency?
We're independently rated "Outstanding" for caring by CQC

Carers at Home CQC report
Carers at Home CQC report

Contact us for an informal and confidential chat

If you’d like to discuss your care needs with a qualified care professional please contact us for a free confidential assessment

What Carers at Home offers

The most common CQC regulated home care and live-in services Carers at Home provides for clients include help with getting up and/or going to bed, washing, bathing/showering, meal preparation and diet monitoring. For many clients we will prompt or administer their prescribed medication.

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Other non-medical services include; light housework, cooking, laundry, shopping and errands. It’s often the little things in life that some of our clients miss and need the most however.

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Companionship and human interaction are among our most important duties. Just chatting or reading to a client helps them not to feel isolated from everything that’s going on around them.

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