Home Care and Healthcare Staffing in Rochdale

Rochdale • Greater Manchester

Trusted care and staffing across Rochdale

Protocol Healthcare Services works with families and care providers right across Rochdale and the wider Greater Manchester area. 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.

Our base is in the South of England, with offices in Edgware and Bournemouth, but as an REC-affiliated healthcare staffing agency our reach is genuinely national. We coordinate care and place vetted professionals in Rochdale the same way we do everywhere we work, with enhanced DBS and right to work checks, references and training completed before anyone starts, and a consultant on hand around the clock.

Home care we arrange in Rochdale

• ✓ 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 Rochdale

Rochdale sits in the foothills of the South Pennines in the north east of Greater Manchester, a market town shaped by its cotton mills and remembered as the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement. The borough stretches from the town centre out to distinctive communities such as Castleton, Bamford, Norden, Healey, Spotland, Milnrow, Littleborough and Wardle, and each has its own character, from terraced streets close to the centre to more rural villages up towards the moors. Addresses across the town fall mainly within the OL11, OL12 and OL16 postcodes, with OL15 covering Littleborough and OL16 reaching Milnrow, and we tailor support to the person and the place rather than offering a one size fits all service.

Many of the families we help know Rochdale Town Hall, the Grade I listed Gothic Revival landmark on The Esplanade that is regarded as one of the finest municipal buildings in the country, and it remains a proud focal point for the town. Everyday life for the people we support tends to revolve around their own neighbourhood, the local shops, place of worship and the community that surrounds them, and good home care should fit around those routines rather than disrupt them.

We regularly support people returning home after a stay at Rochdale Infirmary on Whitehall Street, which is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The trust also runs nearby hospitals including The Royal Oldham Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, so residents may be discharged from any of these. 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 the borough is overseen by Rochdale Borough Council. If you think a relative may qualify for help with funding, you can ask the 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 Rochdale

Care homes, supported living services, hospitals and community teams across Rochdale rely on dependable staffing, and that is where our staffing side comes in. 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. Our staffing service is national, so we can supply teams in Rochdale and right across Greater Manchester even though our offices are in the South.

Areas of Rochdale we cover

We work across the borough and the wider Greater Manchester area, including:

• Castleton
• Bamford
• Norden
• Healey
• Spotland
• Milnrow
• Littleborough
• Wardle
• Kirkholt
• Balderstone
• Deeplish
• Smallbridge