Visiting Care in Wandsworth

Wandsworth • South West London

Flexible hourly visiting care at home in Wandsworth

Visiting care in Wandsworth is home care in short, planned calls: a Care Professional comes in at set times to help with washing, dressing, meals and medication prompts. Not everyone needs round-the-clock support. For many people in Wandsworth, the right answer is a helping hand at the right moments of the day: someone to help you get up and dressed, a prompt to take your medication, a hot meal at lunchtime, or simply a friendly face to check all is well. That is what our visiting care is built for. Calls start from as little as 30 minutes and can be arranged once a day, several times a day, or on a pattern that changes as your needs do, so you keep your independence and stay in the home you know. If a social worker or hospital discharge team talks about domiciliary care, this is what they mean: visiting care in your own home.

Protocol Healthcare Services arranges care in Wandsworth from our London office in Edgware, so we do not run a shopfront on Wandsworth High Street. What we do run is a home-care and staffing service covering London and the Home Counties built on carefully vetted people. Every Care Professional who visits your home has passed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training, and wherever possible the same familiar faces return to you, so a genuine relationship can grow between visits in Balham, Southfields or Earlsfield.

What visiting care in Wandsworth can include

• ✓ Short drop-in calls from 30 minutes
• ✓ Help getting up, washed and dressed
• ✓ Medication prompts and reminders
• ✓ Meal preparation and help with eating
• ✓ Light housework, laundry and shopping
• ✓ Companionship and check-in visits
• ✓ Help getting to appointments and out and about
• ✓ Morning, lunchtime, teatime and bedtime calls

Care that fits around your day in Wandsworth

The beauty of visiting care is that it flexes. A single morning call may be all that is needed to start the day well, or you might build up to four visits a day covering breakfast, lunch, tea and settling at night. You can start with a small package and add to it gently over time. We can arrange a lunchtime call so a parent in Furzedown eats a proper meal, a bedtime visit to help someone in Tooting settle safely, or a mid-morning companionship hour to get out to Northcote Road or a bench on Wandsworth Common. Because we plan the visits with you, they slot around the routines that matter rather than replacing them.

Local knowledge across the borough

Wandsworth stretches from the Thames at Putney and Battersea down through Wandsworth Town, Tooting and Balham, mixing busy town centres with a great deal of green space. Our visiting Care Professionals support people right across it: a check-in call in a flat near Clapham Junction, personal care in a terrace by King George's Park and the Wandle, help with the shops near the Southside Shopping Centre, or companionship for someone in Roehampton or West Hill. Keeping those local routines going is often the difference between merely coping and genuinely living well at home.

Visiting care also plays a big role after a hospital stay. St George's Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, both part of St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discharge many local people who need a little support during recovery rather than full-time care. A short daily visit to manage medication, meals and mobility can make the first weeks home safer, and we simply reduce the calls as confidence and independence return.

Funding and arranging visiting care in Wandsworth

Visiting care is charged by the hour or by the visit, so you only pay for the support you actually use, which makes it one of the most cost-effective ways to start receiving care. Many Wandsworth families self-fund, and some qualify for help. Wandsworth Borough Council, based at the Town Hall on Wandsworth High Street, can carry out a free care needs assessment followed by a financial assessment. Care at home in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are registered with the CQC for personal care (provider ID 1-6591402702) and have not yet been inspected, so we have no rating. Our team is always happy to talk through the routes, and our paying for care guide explains them in plain English. Our guide to arranging home care for a loved one sets out each step, from the needs assessment to the care plan.

If you run a care service in Wandsworth, our staffing services page explains how we supply nurses and support workers as an REC-affiliated agency.

Asking Wandsworth Council for care

Wandsworth Council takes requests for adult care through its Make a referral for care and support page. The council also publishes a Direct Payments policy, which explains how assessed support can be paid to you so that you choose who provides it. That choice can include a visiting care agency. If a relative in Putney or Tooting has been assessed already, have the council's support plan to hand when you call us. We can then match visit times to what the plan sets out.

Areas of Wandsworth we cover for visiting care

Homes in the borough sit mainly in SW11, SW12, SW15, SW17 and SW18. We arrange hourly and visiting care right across the borough and the surrounding SW postcodes, including:

• Wandsworth Town
• Putney
• Battersea
• Tooting
• Balham
• Earlsfield
• Southfields
• Roehampton
• Clapham Junction
• Nine Elms
• Furzedown
• West Hill