Christies Care work as a domiciliary care agency, employing care workers to provide live-in care according to agreed and regularly updated care plans.
We are flexible in our approach to the way we work, and we can provide care workers for Local Authorities wishing to pay a fixed price or a specific price depending upon the individual needs and wishes of the service user.
We can provide care workers for a range of services including respite care, an emergency service, short term care for rehabilitation and convalescence, and special needs/complex behaviours.
We have experience in providing care workers on a short term basis (starting from a few days to several weeks) to fill in for a family member or regular care assistant needing a holiday or break from work. By providing the right care worker, the service user is able to remain at home.
Although we are not an emergency service, we can occasionally provide care workers at short notice. If we are given full information about a service user’s needs as well as the household environment, we can often source a highly skilled care worker within a few hours.
Short term care for rehabilitation and convalescence
Our short term care service is ideal for service users who are returning home after a short period in hospital (e.g. an operation). Our care workers can help the service user until they are strong enough to revert back to an independent life.
Special needs and complex behaviours
Many of our service users have a range of complex needs and behaviours yet prefer to remain living independently within their own home.
Our expertise is in sourcing capable care workers and providing them with the relevant advanced training to ensure the individual needs of the service user is being met at all times.
- Users with a learning disability
We can provide highly skilled, competent care workers who have specialist knowledge in how to care for service users with a learning disability.
We are an accredited satellite centre for the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD), and our training department holds a grade 2 status (the highest we can achieve with a single centre assessor).
We know that continuity is important for those service users with learning disabilities, so we aim to establish teams of care workers who will return again and again.
- Terminal Illness
Our experience has shown that many service users with a terminal illness often prefer to die at home, in comfortable, familiar surroundings.
Our care workers will work as part of a team, with community nurses and other professionals. They will carry out any necessary tasks quietly and calmly without intruding on the service user or their relations.
- Supported Living
Our care workers can help service user’s live independent lives. Live-in care workers enable service users to develop basic life skills, maintain tenancy and undertake their own personal care.