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About domiciliary care jobs
Domiciliary care jobs are an important part of community care (which we go in to more detail elsewhere on this site). Domicilary care jobs are often provided through a domiciliary care agency or third party (such as Allied Healthcare jobs or Nestor jobs) which can provide either care at home jobs or live in care jobs. These domiciliary care agency jobs will be regulated by the CQC (Care Quality Commission - see our page about home manager jobs for more information on CQC). Domiciliary care agencies are inspected by the CQC. They used to be rated (out of 3). But the CQC changed this in October 2010 to a system that, instead, to a system of ongoing assessment to ensure providers of health and social care services comply with the CQC’s “essential standards”. Often a domiciliary care agency will employ its own live in care staff and so will be required to adhere to CQC’s vision of safe, available and effective treatment of anyone who receives health and social care services in England.
Care at home jobs and live in care jobs tend to be home care service jobs for the elderly. Care at home jobs are filled by the domiciliary staff employed directly by the domiciliary care agency. It’s felt that this gives the agency greater credibility and responsibility.
Domiciliary care is about meeting a clients’ needs on practical, domestic and day-to-day level. Domiciliary care jobs tend to require support workers and care workers but managerial positions are available too (check out SocialCare.co.uk for domiciliary care manager jobs). If you’re a care at home support worker or care assistant employed directly by an agency there will be a good deal of emphasis on consistent care provision - where you will regularly visit the same clients. This familiarity is considered an important part of the care package provided and can increase the sense of satisfaction gained through care at home jobs.
Most care at home jobs will require you to be able to work independently, and often ask you to have a driving licence and possibly your own transport.
Live in Care jobs
Live in care jobs aren’t exclusively about elderly care. Providing support for clients with a range of health or mental disabilities is also encompassed. Live in care jobs may require more specialist experience to allow the carer or nurse to offer sufferers of spinal injuries, for instance, daily therapeutic care. It will be worth you browsing our learning disabilities jobs and mental health jobs pages for more information on live in jobs and care at home jobs within these specialist areas. For these jobs you will need to be a very confident communicator, sensitive and compassionate.
Domiciliary care jobs, whatever the context, allow you (the domiciliary care jobseeker!) to work with the client (and very often their wider family) in an often practical, day-to-day manner. But ostensibly simple things, like helping them do the washing, preparing meals, helping with laundry, these things can make the difference for people who would otherwise struggle to cope. Domiciliary care jobs are about providing practical care, routinely, in order to bring about positive change in people’s lives. They can be extremely rewarding.... start browsing for them on SocialCare.co.uk!
