Short Description of Us

Under the direction of a healthcare professional, such as a Nurse, Senior Carer or Home Supervisor, you will help provide high-quality care to your clients. Some of your typical daily duties will include and are not limited to : ● Helping patients generally ● Serving food and feeding patients ● Washing and dressing patients ● Making beds and keeping patients comfortable ● Monitoring patients’ health status by assessing their weight, temperature, pulse and respiration levels If you work in a surgery or health centre, your duties will include: ● Conducting health checks. ● Taking samples, such as blood or urine, and processing them in the lab. ● Sterilizing equipment and machines. ● Promoting health consciousness.

Yes, a live-in carer lives in the customer’s home and is on-hand for the majority of each day. Most of our Carers work for blocks of five to eight weeks at a time between breaks.

No, as we are a private home care company and not an agency, you will be employed directly by Caregiver Plus . This means we recruit, assess and manage all of our carers, enabling us to keep your training up to date and have more control over your care arrangement to ensure your satisfaction.

“Care-giving call us to lean into a love we didn’t know possible “ Tia Walker Healthcare Assistant qualifications in the UK are very specific and you need to meet certain criteria before you can obtain employment.   1. What are the entry requirements? The NHS has not imposed specific prerequisites for Healthcare Assistants but you must at least possess: ● Good literacy and numeracy skills ● Satisfactory General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE or equivalent) grades in English and Maths   2. What training will you need? Your HCA training must include basic nursing skills and it should enable you to acquire a Care Certificate, the UK credential that was launched in 2015. You will need to satisfy the 15 criteria set out in  the Care Certificate: ● Understanding the HCA role ● Personal development ● Duty of care ● Understanding the importance of equality and diversity ● Conducting person-centred care ● Communicating with your patients ● Respecting your patients’ dignity and privacy ● Providing suitable fluids and nutrition ● Awareness of mental health, including learning disabilities and dementia ● How to safeguard adult patients ● How to keep the children under your care safe ● Basic life support skills ● Health and safety knowledge ● How to handle critical patient information ● Preventing and controlling potential infections Caregivers Plus In addition, intended to train new HCA workers to acquire the necessary skills.

All carers are paid on a monthly basis, and as you are directly employed by us, we also take care of your tax and national insurance paperwork. As an employee of Caregiver Plus you are also entitled to statutory sick pay, paid annual leave and a pension scheme.

Yes. When a customer confirms that they would like to go ahead with live-in care, a member of our assessment team visits the customer to perform a risk assessment. The information from that assessment will then be detailed in the care plan.