Weymouth

Bluebird Care Weymouth is a leading home care and live in care agency.

Home Care Service Area

Bluebird Care (Weymouth and West Dorset) is a Care Quality Commission registered provider of Domiciliary Care Services for older people and adults with a physical disability across Weymouth & Portland, West Dorset and Purbeck. That’s from Swanage to Lyme Regis East to West along the Dorset coast and North as far as Sherborne, including the towns of Dorshester, Bridport, Beaminster, Wool and Wareham.

What we do

• We offer everything from personal care to shopping, cleaning or social visits.  In fact, everything you need to remain in the comfort of your own home.
• Visit times range from 15 minutes right up to 24-hour live-in care. 
• Our staff are caring, trained to give medication and police checked.
• Bluebird Care offers a realistic, cost-effective alternative to residential care.  With familiar friends, relatives and possessions around, Bluebird Care ‘just happens’.
• We never charge our customers mileage to or from the care visit, nor do we subtract travel time from visit time. If our customers pay for an hours care, they receive an hours care.
• We believe in providing the quality of care that we would wish for our own family or loved ones. How do we do this? By paying our care workers a generous rate and investing in their training. This ensures we recuit and retain the best staff, enabling us to provide both qualityand consistency for our customers.

News

April 2012

On 14th April, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Bowling Club unveiled two sets of green access steps provided by their main sponsors, Bluebird Care.  During this month we were also proud sponsors of Spenstock IV, a concert in aid of the Motor Neuron Disease Association and we were also pleased to announce the launch of an on-going support arrangement with Island Community Action, the Portland-based charity providing a range of services to the Island’s older residents.

March 2012

March saw Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) Director - Chris Scriven, enjoying duties as interim resident bingo caller at Nightingale Court sheltered housing scheme in Weymouth and also saw the office supporting Portland’s ‘Memory Café’ through the provision of cakes for refreshments.

February 2012

1^St February was Dignity Action Day, organised by the Dignity in Care network and Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) marked the occasion by inviting our customers to join us for a celebratory lunch.  As well as an excellent lunch, there was also the opportunity for our customers to feedback to us on our care provision so that we can refine our service still further.  Our thanks to Ian Ferguson from Weyline taxis for providing transport for the event.

January 2011

Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) were proud sponsors of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust “Pie and a Pint” Seasonal Circuit Walk which took place along Weymouth sea front on 8^th January.

On 16^th January, Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) commenced a sponsorship package with Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Bowling Club.  As part of a comprehensive sponsorship package, Bluebird Care will be providing the club with green access steps ready for the new season that will those with limited mobility to access the green.

December 2011

Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) was delighted to support Island Community Action’s older person’s Christmas buffet on 14^th December.  With an excellent buffet provided by The Friendly Food Club and Christmas presents for all courtesy of Bluebird Care, an excellent time was had by all who attended. 

On 3^rd December Bluebird Care (Weymouth & West Dorset) attended the St John’s Ambulance Carer Support Progamme table-top fair and raised funds for the programme with a “name the bear” competition.