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Services We Offer

 

Clamoore Home Base Care Limited will provide personal care, practical support and domestic duties to service users and/or their carers where such assistance is required.  It includes, but is not limited to, such services as:

 

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Day Time Services  
  Personal Care
  Assisting with Service Users’ Health Needs
  Food and Nutrition
  Money and Shopping
  Domestic Services
  Carers Support
  Safety Issues
Night Services  
  Night Sleeping Service
  Night Sitting Service

 

Our Organisation Provides Services To The Following Service Users:

  • People with physical disabilities

  • People who have sensory impairment

  • People with learning difficulties

  • People of mental health difficulties

  • People affected by HIV / AIDS

  • Older adults

  • Younger adults

  • Carer support

 

Daytime Service:

 

Available between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

 

Personal Care:

  •     Assisting service users to get up and go to bed.

  •     Assisting service users to transfer from or to bed/chair/wheelchair/toilet, moving to a sitting position in bed with a mechanical hoist and taking into account Health and Safety legislation.

  •     Assisting with personal washing, bathing, showering and maintaining good personal hygiene.

  •     Assisting service users with dressing, undressing and changing.

  •     Assisting service users with shaving, washing, foot care but not toe nail care that requires a state registered chiropodist.

  •     Assisting with scrubbing teeth.

  •     Changing of incontinence sheets and pads and their disposal

  •     Changing of catheter bags and emptying commodes.

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Assisting with Service Users’ Health Needs:

  •     Prompting and recording the self-administration of prescribed medication from a medication pack.

  •     Facilitating as part of a planned programme to promote independence or in order to maintain the service user’s situation.

  •     Preventative application of prescribed or non-prescribed creams/ointments to unbroken skin following personal cleaning as agreed within an individual’s care plan.

  •     Constantly monitoring general heath condition and circumstances of service user.

  •     Recognising the need to summon a GP or District Nurse and alert the Registered Care Manager.

  •     Co-operation with carers/ relatives/ District Nurse/ Occupational Therapist/ Registered Care Manager and other partners.

  •     Ensuring that service users maintain an adequate supply of medication and arranging for repeat prescriptions when required and in accordance with the company’s medication policy.

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Food and Nutrition:

  •     Menu planning as part of a planned programme to promote independence.

  •     Preparation of food including hot meals and dealing with dietary needs including health related needs (e.g. diabetes).

  •     Ensuring the safe reheating of previously prepared food in line with current legislation and if available in line with the manufacturers’ instructions.

  •      Assistance with feeding or drinking.

  •       Advance preparation of snacks and drinks.

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Money and Shopping:

  •     Assisting with preparation of shopping lists including management of household stores.

  •     Shopping at stores most local to the service user’s home for essential food and hygiene items.

  •     Accompanying the service user to shops as part of a planned programme to promote independence.

  •     Assisting with handling money, pension collecting, bill paying and complying with financial arrangements to account for such transactions.

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Domestic Services:

  •     Bed making and changing including cleaning up after incontinence.

  •     Emptying and cleaning commode.

  •     Domestic cleaning will normally be limited to essential hygiene requirements only. This would consist of the cleaning of work surfaces and floors in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet and including baths, shower trays, sinks, basin and toilets plus cleaning of occasional spillage. Planned vacuuming and dusting only to be included where specified in the Care Plan to meet a health related need. (The service user will be responsible for providing all cleaning materials such as mop/bucket and cleaning agents)

  •     Washing up.

  •     Dealing with household refuse.

  •     Disposal of special clinical waste as identified by the Health Authority through approved collection systems.

  •     Assisting with personal correspondence.

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Carers Support:

  •     Providing respite to Carers within the service user’s home as part of a Care Plan through supplying a person to be with the service user to enable the Carer to undertake activities of their choosing.

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Safety Issues:

  •     Managing food hygiene.

  •     Bringing to the attention of service users health and safety issues (e.g. safety of household equipment, furnishings etc) with advice from the Health and Safety Officer where appropriate.

Night Services:

 

Night Sleeping Service:

  •       To be available for a set period from 10.00 p.m. – 6 a.m. (the times for this service can be flexible) to sleep in the home of the service user and to be available to be woken up no more than three times per night and to provide those services in Daytime Services as necessary.

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Night Sitting Service:

  •     To be available for a set period from 10.00 p.m. to 6 a.m. (the times for this service can be flexible) each day to attend to the service user throughout the night by remaining on the premises and being readily available to the service user to provide those services in Daytime services as necessary.

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