HomeCare-Direct

Tel: 0845 061 9000
Service Category: Employing your own staff
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About HomeCare-Direct

HomeCareDirect is a 24 hour support at home service which covers the whole of England and is being extended to cover Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. The HomeCareDirect system allows clients to choose and organise their own care at home support staff on an on-going and day-to-day basis. A HomeCareDirect support box is installed in the home of every client to record care support visits, check on training, and provide an automatic alarm if a personal carer is late or fails to arrive. HomeCareDirect is registered and inspected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection for all client groups for all England which includes elderly people, people with a physical disability, people with mental health problems, people with a learning disability and for children. The HomeCareDirect full registration has particular significant benefits for children in transition as they change from being funded as a child, into being funded as an adult. The significant benefit to the child is that the immediate support staff need not change. Transition can become a non-event.

What we do

HomeCareDirect now makes it easy for people to take up the option to choose a 'Direct Payment', by offering to be the legal employer of personal carers selected. HomeCareDirect also provides re-assurance for social workers that their client will remain safe at home under the HomeCareDirect 'direct payment' system. HomeCareDirect can place an electronic care support box, connected to the telephone, in the home of every client. The HomeCareDirect Support Box: Records the arrival, departure and length of each care visit, from the ID card inserted by the personal carer assistant into the HomeCareDirect support box. Makes an automatic alert / alarm call to HomeCareDirect to help keep the client safe at home, should a careworker be late or fail to arrive. Automatically rings up once per day overnight to the HomeCareDirect central computer, to update the care visit information for that day. Acts as the personal carer's time sheet, from which personal carer's pay is calculated, and paid directly into the personal carer's bank account, on a monthly basis, after deducting PAYE and NI. Receives and stores information on the homecare visits for the week ahead. Checks that the training and experience of the personal carer assistant meets the specific care needs of the client at every visit. Gives the option for an hourly temperature check in the home and makes an alert call should the temperature drop below client acceptable levels. An emergency wrist/pendant alarm is under development, for client use at home, in the event of a fall or illness.

What we cost

The Initial HomeCareDirect case manager Visit to home or hospital to discuss the care and support needs of the client, to provide information about the HomeCareDirect System of support at home, to identify training needs of personal carers, and provide information about Direct Payments. No charge! Initial Care Support Set-Up Fee This includes a further visit by the HomeCareDirect case manager to provide a health and safety assessment, to explain and instruct the client care and support needs to the personal carers, to provide appropriate personal carer training, and place the HomeCareDirect care support box in the home. = £200 Hourly Charge Client as Employer (£ / hour of care) = £1.56 HomeCareDirect as Employer (£ / hour of care) = £2.20

Where we operate

Throughout the UK.

Approved By or Acredited By

registered nationally by the CQC and recognised by the Natioinal eWell-Being Awards.

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