Live-in Care in Bracknell

Bracknell • Berkshire

24-hour care at home in Bracknell with a live-in carer

Live-in care brings 24-hour support to the Bracknell home your relative already knows: one dedicated Care Professional, living in. It means one-to-one attention rather than shared staff, with the familiar rooms and routine kept as they are. Protocol Healthcare Services has worked in care and staffing since 2016 and has been CQC-registered for personal care since 2019.

Bracknell has no Protocol branch of its own. Care here is arranged by our London office, Highview House in Edgware (HA8 7JU), which places the carers we vet across Berkshire. Enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training are done before anyone starts, and a consultant is on hand around the clock.

What live-in care in Bracknell includes

Bracknell is a town of distinct neighbourhoods, from Easthampstead and Priestwood near the centre to Great Hollands, Crown Wood and Warfield further out. In all of them, one carer lives in your relative's home and is on hand through the day and overnight. Long-term needs can be met without a move into a nursing home.

We build the arrangement around the person and review it as things change. What begins as company and a steady hand with medication can grow into closer support, and the plan changes with it.

• ✓ A dedicated live-in Care Professional in the home
• ✓ Round-the-clock support, including overnight reassurance
• ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
• ✓ Medication management and prompting
• ✓ Meal planning, cooking and nutrition
• ✓ Mobility support and help avoiding falls
• ✓ Dementia, Parkinson's and complex care
• ✓ Companionship, hobbies and days out to the Lexicon

New to the idea? Live-in care explained sets out what it is and who it suits.

A new town layout and what it means at home

Bracknell was declared a New Town after the war, planned at first for 25,000 people and expanded in the 1960s. The town grew estate by estate, so homes vary a good deal in age and layout. Either way, the carer needs a bedroom, and we check that before anything is agreed.

Stairs and bathrooms come next. If your relative now struggles with the stairs, we can talk through moving a bed downstairs or asking the council about equipment and adaptations.

For family visiting from London, Bracknell and Martins Heron stations are on the Waterloo to Reading line. Familiar routines carry on, from the morning paper to a walk in South Hill Park or a trip to the Lexicon. Our guide live-in care versus a care home compares the two.

Night-time, sleep and the carer's breaks

Here is what happens after dark. The carer is there overnight, but they need their own sleep and a break every day to keep going. If your relative is up and needing help through the night, tell us when we assess so we can talk about night support.

Hospitals serving Bracknell

Bracknell has no large acute hospital of its own. Frimley Park Hospital near Camberley and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough are both part of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Bracknell Healthspace in the town has an urgent treatment centre. We can arrange a live-in carer for the first weeks after discharge, helping with medication and mobility.

Bracknell Forest Council and carers' support

Bracknell Forest Council is the unitary authority, so it handles adult social care directly. You can ask for an assessment through the council's health and social care pages, online, by email or by phone. The NHS guide explains how needs assessments work.

If your relative's needs are mainly health needs, ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare. Unpaid family carers can ask for a carer's assessment.

SIGNAL is funded to give free information, advice and support to anyone caring for someone in Bracknell Forest.

Live-in care costs in Bracknell

We quote after an assessment, and the figure reflects the help needed, including any nurse-led care; read paying for care and our breakdown of live-in care costs.

Staffing in Berkshire

Our REC-affiliated agency also supplies NMC-registered nurses and support workers to care services in Bracknell Forest; see our staffing services.

Areas of Bracknell we cover for live-in care

Our live-in care covers Bracknell and these surrounding communities:

• Easthampstead
• Great Hollands
• Crown Wood
• Harmans Water
• Bullbrook
• Hanworth
• Priestwood
• Birch Hill
• Wildridings
• Martins Heron
• Warfield
• Binfield