LIVE IN CARE in Cardiff
Families looking for live-in care can be rest-assured that their loved ones can stay in their own homes, familiar with their surroundings and always able to accept visitors when they choose.
What is Live In Care?
Live-in care is a popular alternative to residential care where a care assistant stays with you in your home, offering support as needed. The goal of live-in care services is to empower you to live independently, offering tailored support and encouragement,
Unlike other types of home care, live-in care services mean a care assistant lives with you in your home, offering bespoke support as needed, day and night.*
Everyone’s needs are different, so there can be no one-size-fits-all approach to care. We work with you to create a care plan that celebrates your individuality and offers support when you need it most.
Live In Care Includes
- Support with bathing, toileting, and dressing
- Helping you to prepare healthy, delicious meals
- Household chores including laundry and general cleaning tasks
- Accompanying you on outings; from grocery shopping to visiting friends and family
- Specialist care including catheter care, stoma care, and PEG
- Daily companionship
- Overnight care
We believe that everyone deserves to live independently. Live-in care supports you to live your life, on your terms.
Benefits of Live In Care
Live-in care offers a variety of benefits, both physical and emotional. It eliminates the stress of having to leave (or even sell) your family home. It allows you to stay in your local community, amongst friends and relatives. It prevents the separation of married couples.
But it’s more than that. It allows you to live independently, as you continue to engage in your favourite pastimes, with your favourite people.
Live-in care empowers you to stay independent while offering support tailored to your needs. Contact us today to discover how live-in care services could help you.
Continutiy of Care
We provide each Customer with regular Live-In Care Assistants to ensure consistent care. Our Live-In Care Assistants may work one week on and one week off. Each week the Live-In Care Assistants have a detailed hand over with a Care Supervisor to ensure that no information is missed, the previous week can be discussed along with the upcoming week and any major events that may have occurred.
Guaranteed Local Carers
We already deliver many hours of care in the community throughout Cardiff and The Vale which we have done for the last 13 years. If for any reason, the Live In Care Assistant has to leave, we have local cover to ensure there is minimum disruption to care.
Employment Contracts
All of our Live-In Care Assistants are employed directly by Bluebird Care so that we can guarantee that all recruitment regulation is carried out as per Care Inspectorate Wales, our governing body. Directly employing our Live In Care Assistants means that you can concentrate on your day to day life knowing that we have taken care of our staff. We are responsible for the Live In Carers pay, PAYE, NI, annual leave and staturoy benefits such as Pensions.
All of our Live-In Care Assistants attend mandatory training and meet regularly with their Supervisor and Live In Care Mentor to ensure they maintain and deliver the highest levels of quality care.
We invest in our Live-In Care Assistants’ personal and professional development and all of our care staff are offered the opportunity to enhance their skills through training and they also have the opportunity to complete an NVQ Level 2, 3, 4 or 5 funded by Bluebird Care.
Live In Care for Couples
Live In Care can also be provided for couples. Tt helps to keep couples living together in their own home. Sometimes one half may have more demanding needs than the other and a live-in care assistant can take on that burden letting the relationship continue without the added stress. It is also a relatively less ‘expensive’ option for a couple rather than facing two sets of costs as two individuals.
What our Live In Carer will need
Whilst the Live-In Care Assistant is living with our Customer they require their own bedroom and space to keep their clothes and personal belongings. The Live-In Care Assistant also needs to be provided with a food budget for the week which can be managed as part of a weekly shop or purchased separately by the Live-In Care Assistant at the start of each week.
The Live-In Care Assistant will provide additional support during the night and can wake up to assist the Customer up to three times per night. If more support is needed during the night we can arrange for an additional Care Worker to cover the waking night to allow the Live-In Care Assistant to get a good nights sleep and to be refreshed during the day.
The advantage of us being a local care provider is that we can also arrange for a second local Care Worker to cover the daily two hour breaks if required.