Home Care and Healthcare Staffing in Harlow

Harlow • Essex

Trusted care and staffing across Harlow

Protocol Healthcare Services works with families and care providers across Harlow and the surrounding parts of west Essex. For families we arrange home care that helps a loved one stay safe and independent in their own home, from a short daily visit through to full live-in support. For care providers we supply qualified nurses, carers and support workers, drawing on more than ten years of experience matching the right people to the right settings.

We are honest about where we are based. Our offices are in the South of England rather than in Harlow itself, so we do not run a local branch on the high street. What we do have is a genuinely national staffing reach and a coordinated way of arranging home care, so families and providers in Harlow get the same standard of service we deliver everywhere. Every professional we place is checked with an enhanced DBS and right to work verification, references and training completed before they start, with a consultant on hand around the clock.

Home care we arrange in Harlow

• ✓ Live-in care for round the clock support
• ✓ Hourly visiting care from 30 minute calls
• ✓ Personal care, washing and dressing
• ✓ Medication support and prompting
• ✓ Dementia, Parkinson's and complex care
• ✓ Respite and emergency cover
• ✓ Private nursing at home
• ✓ Companionship and help getting out and about

Local knowledge across Harlow

Harlow is one of the original post-war new towns, laid out along the M11 corridor in west Essex and known for its neighbourhood-based design and its open collection of public sculpture that gives it the nickname Sculpture Town. Its distinctive residential areas include Old Harlow, Church Langley, Newhall, Potter Street, Great Parndon, Netteswell, Mark Hall, Latton Bush and the Staple Tye and Bush Fair neighbourhoods, with homes carrying CM17, CM18, CM19 and CM20 postcodes. Care needs vary from the older streets of Old Harlow to the newer estates at Church Langley and Newhall, and we tailor support to the person and the place rather than offering a one size fits all service.

Families here often know Harlow Town Park, the Water Gardens and the Gibberd Garden, and getting a relative back out to familiar surroundings is frequently part of what good home care looks like. We regularly support people returning home after a stay at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, run by The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, which serves the town and the wider M11 corridor. The first weeks back at home matter, so we help with medication routines, mobility and rehabilitation support and stay in close contact with families and community teams.

Adult social care in Harlow is the responsibility of Essex County Council, while the district is served by Harlow Council for services such as housing. Care in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission, the CQC. If you think a relative may qualify for help with funding, you can ask Essex County Council for a free care needs assessment, followed by a financial assessment. Many families we work with self-fund their care, and we are always happy to explain how the different routes work. You can read more on our paying for care guide.

Staffing for care providers in Harlow

Care homes, supported living services, hospitals and community teams in and around Harlow rely on dependable staffing, and that is where our staffing side comes in. Our reach is national, so distance from our South of England base is no barrier to filling a rota in Essex. We supply NMC-registered nurses and midwives, support workers, mental health professionals and learning disability specialists, from a single shift to a fully managed rota and permanent placements. Every professional is vetted to the same high standard, so you get reliable cover without the compliance headache. You can see the full picture on our staffing services page.

Areas of Harlow we cover

We arrange home care and supply care staff right across the town and the surrounding villages, including:

• Old Harlow
• Church Langley
• Newhall
• Potter Street
• Great Parndon
• Netteswell
• Mark Hall
• Latton Bush
• Staple Tye
• Bush Fair
• Little Parndon
• Sumners