Description

Self Directed Support

HomeCareDirect offer a third party service and employ your chosen personal assistants on your behalf. You’ll still have all the same choice and control yet you won’t have to take on the responsibility (and sometimes the hassles!) of being an employer

Self-directed  support means you can:

• Live your life, your way

• Live independently in your community

• Recruit, interview and select your own care team

• Manage your own rotas to be more flexible and fit around your life

• Be involved in the training of your care team so they know exactly how you wish to be supported

• Choose a third party such as HomeCareDirect to employ your chosen care team on your behalf

If you wish we can provide culturally appropriate services to people from South Asian Communities (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) recruit and employ personal assistants with language skills and knowledge of cultures of South Asian and other ethnic minority populations including African/Caribbean and Eastern European Communities.

You will have an Independent Living Advisor to help you and your care team make a success of managing your support package.

Our local Independent Nurse will help you with training and our local communities officer  will help you identify any activities, charities and voluntary groups in the Kirklees area that may be of interest

Cost Details

Up to the point of you agreeing to HomeCareDirect helping you to manage your support package our services are free of charge, with no obligation. We want you to be sure that you want to use us!

We do then charge a nominal set up fee for putting your package together – which can be spread over 12 months. 

HomeCareDirect services cost £3.00 per hour of support provided, £17.28 a day for live-in care and £13.86 a night for sleep-in support.

These charges include:

• HomeCareDirect being the legal employer of your personal assistants on your behalf

• Employers liability insurance

• Full payroll service

• Insurance scheme to pay personal assistant’s sick, maternity or paternity pay (protecting your budget against such unforeseen costs)

• Full personal assistant recruitment service and support to identify training for them

• A 24/7 telephone support for you and your personal assistant’s

• Two personal assistant supervisions per year including and annual review

• Care Delivery to Care Quality Commission (CQC) national standards 

• Remote monitoring of service, helping to ensure your safety at all times

So depending on the service you want the cost of your package may range from £13.50 - £18.00 per hour. Remember though that each package of support is individual so please contact us for a more accurate picture of how this will be costed.

If you are a registered user of this website you can ask us any question, including questions about meeting your specific needs, by clicking on the ‘Request More Information’ tab above.

Provided by: HomeCareDirect