Live-in Care in Haringey

Haringey • North London

Round-the-clock, 24-hour live-in care in Haringey

A live-in carer moves in with your relative at their Haringey home, giving one-to-one help through the day and being there at night. Across the borough it keeps the familiar streets of Crouch End or Muswell Hill and a routine built around one person, without a move into residential care. Protocol has been in care and staffing since 2016, and our CQC registration for personal care has been in place since 2019.

Haringey placements are run by our London office in Edgware, at 167 Station Road. It is a short drive away, and families in Wood Green, Tottenham and Hornsey deal with a team that knows North London well. Each Care Professional passes enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, gives references and completes training before starting, and a consultant is on hand around the clock.

What live-in care in Haringey includes

Will a stranger living in the house be more disruption than help? It is the question families ask first. A live-in Care Professional works around your relative's routine rather than importing one, keeping the household's own hours and habits, so support sits inside the ordinary run of the day rather than arriving as a set of scheduled calls.

We arrange live-in care for families across Haringey, in Wood Green, Tottenham and Crouch End, and in Muswell Hill, Hornsey and Bounds Green. If you are weighing it up, start by describing a normal day as it currently runs, and where in it things are going wrong. That is what a live-in arrangement gets built around.

• ✓ 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
• ✓ Support for couples under one arrangement
• ✓ Companionship, hobbies and days out

For more on how a 24-hour live-in arrangement fits into family life, try our guide to live-in care.

Staying in Haringey

In Highgate, Stroud Green or the Harringay Ladder, it can seem that a care home must come next. Staying at home means your relative keeps their bedroom, neighbours in Muswell Hill and the GP they know. The walk up to Alexandra Park and a coffee on Crouch End Broadway can carry on. For couples, one live-in carer can support both, so the well partner is not left carrying everything. Crouch End and Muswell Hill families can compare cost and quality in our care home comparison.

Haringey Council and Carers First

Anyone aged 18 or over in Haringey can ask the council for a Care Act assessment using a self-referral form. You can fill it in for yourself or for someone else. Haringey's form follows national rules, and the NHS explains them in its page on a needs assessment. The council's advice on returning home after hospital says the hospital team plans the discharge and makes any referrals.

Carers First works with adult unpaid carers whose relative lives in the borough, from Tottenham to Highgate. Haringey residents whose needs are mainly health-related can ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare. Live-in care in N8, N15 or N22 costs more where dementia or nurse-led care is needed; see live-in care costs and paying for care.

North Middlesex, the Whittington and coming home

North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton is now part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The Whittington Hospital in Archway is run by Whittington Health NHS Trust, which also provides community services in Haringey. We can arrange live-in care for people leaving either hospital. Someone in the home in the first weeks helps with tablets and gentle rehabilitation, and with spotting early warning signs.

Houses, flats and space for a carer

Across Wood Green, Tottenham, Hornsey and Bounds Green, homes range from family houses to flats. A live-in carer needs a bedroom of their own, so the first question is whether there is a spare room. We then look at stairs, the bathroom and where your relative sleeps.

Breaks, sleep and overnight help

Live-in carers in Haringey need a daily break and a proper night's sleep. If your relative needs help through the night, raise it at the assessment. We will talk through night support with you and be clear about what is involved.

Our REC-affiliated staffing agency supplies NMC-registered nurses and support workers to care homes and NHS teams across Tottenham, Wood Green and North London; see staffing services.

Areas of Haringey we cover for live-in care

We arrange live-in care across the borough and the North London postcodes around it, including:

• Wood Green
• Tottenham
• Crouch End
• Muswell Hill
• Hornsey
• Highgate
• Bounds Green
• Harringay
• Stroud Green
• Seven Sisters
• South Tottenham
• Alexandra Park