Home Care Questions and Answers
Are you Considering Home Care?
FAQs
We provide Visiting Care in Worcester, Malvern & surrounding areas and Live-in Care in
Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire & Oxfordshire.
Care calls for Visiting Care can take place between 7am and 10pm everyday.
Live in Care is 24/7 and your Care Professional will require a daily break of 2 hours. There
are various options to enable this that will be discussed at the care assessment.
They will help with all personal care needs, washing, dressing, assistance to access toilet
facilities, meal preparation, basic housekeeping, administering medication, social trips /
appointments and looking after pets. Our Care Professionals are interesting and engaging
and also offer great company!
If you are receiving Visiting Care we will introduce your primary Care Professional who will
provide the majority of your care. We will also introduce you to a small team of Care
Professionals who will provide your Care when your primary care is on holiday or is
unavailable.
For Live in Care you will have one main Care Professional. We will arrange cover when your
main Carer goes on holiday.
Following an initial conversation we can usually accommodate a care assessment in 24 hours.
Following this we will discuss and agree a start date.
Our office team are in constant communication with your Care Professionals both prior to
your care beginning and throughout your care. Both our management team and family
members can access all care logs completed by our Care Professionals that is accessed by the
Severn Vale App. We also conduct regular quality reviews. Our friendly office team can be
contacted 7 days a week between 7am and 10pm should you wish to speak to us about any
aspect of your care.
If you have any concerns whatsoever you should contact a member of the Severn Vale office
team and we will help to resolve any issues.
Following the Care Assessment if you would like to go ahead, we will go through and leave a
copy of our terms and conditions for you to read. To begin Care we need a signed copy of the
Ts & Cs. You will also need to complete a Direct Debit form. We will send invoices
fortnightly in arrears and these amounts are collected usually a week later by Direct Debit.
For Live in Care we also take a returnable deposit equivalent to 2 weeks of care.