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We’re all eager to maintain our independence at home for as long as possible. Essence Care Services Limited was created to connect families with highly skilled and fully qualified domiciliary carers, who can provide the support needed for health and happiness at home.
Finding the right domiciliary care worker can help elderly people to maintain their dignity and wellbeing at home. Essence Care Services Limited takes the complexity out of searching for home care assistance, thanks to our network of experienced professional carers
We assess your requirements and recommend home care options that suit your location, needs and budget. Care is provided on a short- or long-term basis, with Alzheimer’s and Dementia care available should this be required. There’s also the option for pre-planned or emergency respite care. If your loved one is in need of domiciliary care to support their wellbeing, you can be sure that Essence Care Services Limited will go above and beyond to meet their requirements.
We provide personal care, medication administration, personal tasks, preparation of light meals, helping with eating, domestic housework, outreach, wakening care / sleepover, arranging shopping needs etc. Whatever your requirements are, we will be delighted to discuss them with you.
what we do
HOME CARE
Home care is provided to help individuals remain in their own homes when they find it difficult to manage household tasks, rather than moving into a care home. Domiciliary carers are fully trained in all aspects of elderly home care and know how to enhance quality of life by ensuring that you are happy and healthy at home.
Continued independent living often has a huge impact on a person’s wellbeing and confidence, which is why domiciliary carers will go above and beyond to help their charges remain in the comfort of their own homes for as long as possible and continue their established routines among familiar surroundings.
Essence Care Services Limited provides clients with introductions to the best independent carers. We are here to help you find the care services that will best improve your level of comfort during daily home life, and assist you in remaining independent for as long as possible.
When you hire one of our fully trained and carefully vetted carers, they will provide the level of support that you need to ensure your wellbeing. Whether you require multiple daily visits or weekly check–ins, our highly professional, friendly carers will always be available when you need them most.
We provide our service users with pre–assessed care packages that ensure changing needs:
• Personal Care Services
• Washing
• Bed Bath
• Bathing
• Toileting
• Preparing food and drinks
• Medication prompting / administration
• Cleaning / Household Task
• Bed–making
• Laundry
• Ironing
• Shopping Tasks
• Escort Service
• Companionship/Live in services
• Collecting pensions and paying bills
• Prescription pickup
ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA HOME CARE
Alzheimer’s and Dementia can be a highly disorientating condition, which is why Essence Care Services Limited are firm advocates that providing care at home is often the best solution. Alzheimer’s and Dementia home care means those affected can receive the necessary care and support whilst remaining in the familiar environment of their own homes.
Knowing the importance of structure and familiarity for a person affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia, our team will listen to your loved one and take careful note of their history and preferences to ensure that they can continue to follow their normal routines. Whether it is cooking their preferred meals, looking after much–loved pets or visiting favourite places, our one–to–one care helps provide a sense of security and normality for someone living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. As such, we ensure that our carers are professional. They are expertly trained to recognise how the disease presents and the importance of effective communication. They are there to help prompt, reassure and encourage so that a person affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia can continue to make personal choices and live as independently as possible.
Friendly and Reliable Care in a Familiar Environment, Most older people with Alzheimer’s or dementia would prefer to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. In fact, according to research undertaken by the Alzheimer’s Society, 83% of people with dementia said that being able to live in their own home was very important.
Our independent network of highly–qualified specialist carers help to make staying at home an option, by providing consistent daily support that keeps to a tailored care plan. Daily routines are established that help you to eat better, sleep better and enjoy familiar activities that stimulate memory and coordination. Care can be provided on a short or long–term basis, and there is also the option for pre–planned or emergency respite care, should this be required.
Dementia is a generalised term for progressive symptoms of memory loss, confusion and language or problem solving difficulties caused by brain damage. The specific symptoms of a person’s dementia will depend on which parts of the brain have been affected and what has caused the damage; Alzheimer’s is the most common cause, but there are over 100 different types of dementia within the UK, including vascular dementia, which impacts your ability to plan and make decisions.
It isn’t recommended that an elderly person with dementia or Alzheimer’s lives alone unless they are receiving daily care and support, due to the risk of trips, falls and other home accidents.
The support that specialist dementia and Alzheimer’s carers provide includes:
• Performing household tasks, such as vacuuming, dusting and washing clothes
• Assisting you with getting in and out of the bath or shower and bed
• Preparing meals and prompting you to remember to eat at meal times
• Helping you to take medication consistently and correctly
• Feeding and taking care of your pets
• Tending to the garden
• Helping you to wash, dress, brush your hair or put on makeup
• Easing the transition back to home life after hospital stays
• Prescription pickups.
• Monitoring your moods and helping you avoid depressive spells or apathetic feelings by encouraging a positive outlook
PALLIATIVE HOME CARE
Support for Service Users with a Serious or Terminal Illness
Palliative care, or end-of-life care, helps those suffering from a life-limiting illness to enjoy a good standard of living during the time they have left. Specialist carers assist with pain management, provide emotional support and offer practical aid with housework, shopping, cooking and personal care.
Essence Care Services can connect you to the right palliative carer. Your palliative carer will take a holistic approach to managing the physical and psychological symptoms of your condition. They will provide emotional support for you and your family, helping you to prepare for what is to come in the weeks and months ahead. Above all, they will provide the support and comfort that means so much at such a difficult time in anyone’s life.
You can receive palliative care at any point during your illness and alongside other treatments for as long as it is beneficial to you. Palliative care can be beneficial at many different points during a life-limiting illness, not just during the last few weeks or months of life. You can choose to begin palliative care earlier in your illness, for example, while you are still receiving other therapies to treat your condition. It is not necessary to go into a hospice in order to receive palliative care; specialist home carers can provide support in the familiar and comfortable surroundings of your own home.
Also known as terminal or end-of-life care, palliative care focuses on ensuring that your loved one is as comfortable as possible by reducing the symptoms of their incurable illness and providing the support, understanding and friendship that is so crucial at this time.
Some of the responsibilities of a specialist palliative carer include:
• Assisting you with end-of-life planning by helping you to organise your finances and provision for the future
• Ensuring that all steps are taken to minimise any discomfort or pain
• Providing psychological, social and spiritual support to you and your family
• Performing household tasks, such as vacuuming, dusting and laundry.
• Assisting you with meal preparation, eating, washing, getting into bed and dressing, should this be necessary
• Coordinating your care with the appropriate healthcare professionals, including your GP and community nurse
REABLEMENT CARE
Reablement is designed to assist people to remain as independent as possible by supporting them to regain their daily living skills and confidence following a period of illness, accident or disability.
At Essence Care, our aim is to work with you to identify key tasks that are important to you and agree timescales in which to relearn the skills required for you to complete these tasks on your own. We aim to enable people to live full lives within their homes and wider communities.
The main aims of the Service are:
• To promote independence and enable people to live a full life
• To enable people to regain confidence, ability and skills to live safely at home.
• To encourage and motivate
• To listen to what people, need and provide choice and flexibility
• To provide support for informal carers recognising their needs and rights
• To provide appropriate equipment and assertive technology
For elderly and vulnerable people, one of the most worrying things about a hospital stay is returning home. Settling back into a routine can be difficult, especially if you live alone. Reablement care offers the transitional support you need to feel emotionally and physically capable of living independently again after your hospital stay. A specialist carer is on–hand to help prevent falls or other accidents while assisting you to rebuild your confidence.
Carers who provide this kind of short–term support understand that their primary function is to help the person get back on their feet again as quickly as possible. It’s common for an elderly person to lose confidence following an accident or fall, and the reablement carer will take every precaution to ensure that their home environment is safe, secure and free of obstructions so that they can confidently enjoy it.
Some of the responsibilities of a reablement carer include:
• Recommending any specialist equipment required to help you move around the house and use furniture comfortably, such as a walking frame, raised toilet seat or adjustable bed
• Fitting this equipment, or overseeing the fitting, and making home adaptations for your safety, such as the fitting of bathroom grab rails
• Providing emotional support and encouragement
• Overseeing your recovery plan, ensuring you take your medicine and complete your physiotherapy exercises
• Performing household tasks, such as vacuuming, dusting and washing clothes
• Assisting you with meal preparation, eating, washing, getting into bed and dressing, should this be necessary.
RESPITE CARE
What is Respite Care?
Respite care is a short–term period of support from a professional in–home carer.
Respite care is often sought by those who care for a friend or family member, during periods where they require additional support. A respite carer can provide 24–hour care should this be needed. You might want to consider respite care if you are:
• Planning a holiday and in need of cover while you’re away
• Seeking emergency respite care or urgent respite care due to an unplanned for situation that is preventing you from caring for your friend or family member
• In need of additional support, because your elderly relative is recovering from
illness or an operation
• You’re going away on business and need someone to look after your loved one
• Due to additional work or family commitments, you need a carer to step in for a short period
• If you feel that a longer–term care solution is required, we recommend seeking the services of a domiciliary carer. This is because your friend or relative will appreciate being able to build up a good rapport with a consistent carer, rather than having multiple short–term carers.
At Essence Care, our respite care is available to any family member or friend that has become a carer. We acknowledge the vital role they play in people’s lives and will support them by offering time off and looking after their loved ones. This could be anything from an afternoon, a day or a month at a time.
It is important that you make time for yourself, both for your own wellbeing and health but also to revitalise yourself to carry on caring for your loved one. We appreciate that speaking up and asking for some help is a hard thing to do for many people, but we have helped many family carers by giving them a break and have seen first–hand the positive effect it has had on both their own lives and that of the person they have been caring for.
Essence Care Services Limited was created to help individuals take care of their elderly relatives and friends. We understand that your loved one needs and deserves the highest levels of care, and that as much as you may feel obliged or desire to, you are simply unable to be available every time assistance is required.
Our respite carers can provide as much or as little support as needed, on a short–term basis. We also provide longer term domiciliary care or specialist Alzheimer’s and Dementia care, should you find that having the support of a professional carer is beneficial to you and your loved one.
We know that temporarily leaving your loved one to go on holiday or to focus on family or work commitments can be a little daunting. That’s why we go above and beyond to provide you with total peace of mind while your relative is receiving respite care, thanks to our personalised care plan that you approve and oversee.
COMPLEX CARE
We provide professional, supportive home care for individuals with complex needs.
Essence Care provides homecare services for adults with complex health needs. Needs that often go beyond typical homecare.
We understand the challenges of living with complex conditions, many of which are not “obvious” to the eye. We are here to tell you an outside living arrangement is not always necessary – we can provide home care which is tailored to an individual’s exact needs. From comprehensive care every day to simple assistance with weekly tasks, we will provide the helpful, available hand that is required in your loved one’s life.
“One size fit all” is not a part of our vocabulary – your loved one will receive the ideal level of care that is best suited for his or her needs.
We also provide
SOCIAL COMPANION
If you need extra help with day-to-day tasks, or the reassurance of someone with you during the day, our companionship service may be just what you’re looking for.
What is Companionship care?
To help you maintain your independence we can provide a qualified carer who will accompany you out on shopping trips, visits to meet friends, or simply as a safeguard during the day in case anything unforeseen should happen. Our visits can be arranged at times to suit you and can be from a few hours, to a full day.
Many people we support simply want company and conversation, whether they live alone and cannot see their family and friends as often as they would like, or if they are recently bereaved and are finding it hard to adjust. Loneliness can have serious effects on a person’s health and Essence Care aims to prevent loneliness through companionship care.
From giving you a hand with the weekly shop, accompanying you to your doctor’s appointment or to your favourite social group or event, companionship is simply being there for you or your loved one. If you need someone to make sure you’re eating healthily or just fancy popping out for lunch? No problem, our care workers are there for you.
Find the perfect companion
Home care with us could mean a fresh start, opening new doors to exciting new possibilities and friendships. We want you to live well, your way and our care workers will help you do that.
SITTING SERVICE
Feeling like a little extra company? One of our trained carers can come into your home and sit with you during the day simply to chat, watch television or assist with your daily activities. Visits can be arranged daily, weekly or on a more ad-hoc basis to suit you and we are always careful to match our staff as best we can to your situation, ensuring you have a rewarding experience.
WAKING NIGHT SUPPORT
Should you wish our staff to stay with you overnight in case you get into difficulty, this can also be arranged. Throughout the evening our staff will be on hand to help you, so you can sleep soundly knowing that you are in safe hands.
Waking night support is when a specialist carer stays awake during the night, taking an active role in making sure your loved one is comfortable, happy, and has taken any necessary medication when required. Waking night support is recommended for more complex conditions, such as the advanced stages of dementia.
SLEEPING NIGHT SUPPORT
Sleeping night support is when one of our specialist carers simply sleep in the home. You may want to make use of a monitor so that if your relative wakes in the night and needs assistance, the carer can hear them and be on hand to help.
LIVE IN 24 HOUR CARE SERVICE
Live in Care promotes independence and choice and allows you to maintain a sense of being in control. You can have friends visit when you want, keep all of your belonging close to you along with building your daily activities around your preferences and timing.
Our complete live-in service:
• Enables you to live comfortably in your own home
• Support your chosen lifestyle
• Encourages personalised care
• Enables continuity of care with the pre-assessed team
• Gives a feeling of security and value
• Offers peace of mind for service users and their family members. It is an ideal solution for supporting independent living while offering a real alternative to residential Care.
With our 24-Hour Care services, service users can feel confident that their health matters will be addressed in a timely manner — without sacrificing their normal daily routines. At Essence Care Services Limited, we care for our clients’ health and wellbeing and provide personalized home care attention that will get them feeling better again.
Live-in-Care allows you or your loved ones to stay at home and enjoy a one-to-one full time attention on your terms & to your schedule, in familiar, relaxed surroundings. Supported by a fully trained live-in care worker who works to an individually designed care plan, many of our clients find this one-to-one personal home care service ideal.
Domestic services can provide assistance with nutrition, often through basic support tasks like accompanied shopping and help with meal preparations, whilst at the same time helping the individual to retain or regain key skills themselves. Choosing how to handle the care of a loved one in their later years can be a difficult decision, and we help families with deciding and choosing their best options. There is no right or wrong – every family situation is different.
At Essence Care, our aim is to improve people’s lives by promoting independence and choice for older people. We provide a range of health care options. So whatever your needs, we can support you to have a good quality of life.
We provide reliable care workers in a variety of situations where it becomes desirable for service users to have 24 hours support in their own homes. It may be for the purpose of having a long-term housekeeper and carer e.g. when families want to proceed on a holiday but require the peace of mind that their loved elderly relations are in safe hands, or for the reasons of regular respite break from active caring duties by the main family carer.
Essence Care has a wealth of experience in dealing with Live in care.
All our staffs are fully briefed on your expectations with regards to them living in your home. Our staff will bring their own personal items with them and treat your home with respect and consideration throughout their stay.
Other services
TRAINING
Essence Care Services, is an employment agency which arranges training for in-house candidates and external applicants who desire to enter into health and social care industry.
We have grown to be one of the UK’s healthcare safety training providers delivering both classroom and e-learning training.
Essence Care Services enables you to choose a way to achieve compliance that meets your budget. Our candidates can choose classroom training or carry out training themselves using our cost-effective self-use and reusable training materials.
We employ trainers located in and around London delivering classroom training courses. Each trainer is professionally trained and experienced to provide you with services that delivers informative and enjoyable training but more importantly making the subject matter easy to understand. We also keep the content of classroom content fresh and lively to deliver a better knowledge retention rate.
As well as training the staff we supply, we offer a wide range of bespoke training options which can be delivered on either a group or individual basis.
Our staffs are trained to the highest standards and DBS checks are compulsory for all the team members in the organisation.
All of our staffs are appropriately trained before they start work with us. Our comprehensive induction training which is regularly updated to all the latest standards means that we are confident in the competence of all of our staff.
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Care Certificate Program
• Health & Safety
• Safeguarding Adults
• Risk Assessment Health & Safety
• Moving & Handling Theory
• Moving & Handling Assessments
• Moving & Handling Practical
• End of Life
• Communication Skills
• Mental Capacity Act Essentials
• Fire Safety 1: Hazards & Prevention
• Fire Safety 2: Drills & Evacuation
• Emergency First Aid in the Care Home
• Effective Hand Hygiene (including Infection Control Induction Exercises
• Medication – Prompting and Administration
• Stress Awareness
• Manual Handling
• Risk Assessment
• Manual Handling Assessors
• Food Hygiene
• First Aid
• Fire Awareness
• Incident Investigation
• Effective Communication Skills
• Assertiveness – Team Working
• Drugs Awareness
• Medication – Supporting and Assisting
• COSHH
• Lone Working
• Mental Capacity Act Essentials
• Dementia
• Privacy and Dignity in Care
• First Aid Skills
• Bed Rail Safety
• Recording and Reporting
• Fluids and Nutrition
• Person-centred Care
• Slips, Trips and Falls
• Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability Essentials
• Oral Health Care
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Essentials
• Skin Integrity and Pressure Ulcers
• Dysphagia and Choking
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Essentials
• Continence Management (2020)
• Loss and Bereavement
• Care Planning
• Reablement
• Stroke Awareness
• Stoma Care
• Diabetes Essentials
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
The first step to getting the care you need is to have a needs assessment. If you or a loved one are looking for support from a carer, then get in touch with our team today. We will then organise a care professional to contact you to carry out a full assessment looking at how you are managing carrying out daily tasks.
A needs assessment is completely free and can help to give you and your loved one a clearer insight into the sort of help you or your loved one may require.
What does the needs assessment involve?
The assessment includes several different questions, to help us get an idea of how to help your loved one. It will look at how you manage both the physical, but also social aspects of your loved one’s life. We will ask questions about their daily routine and any tasks you find difficult, so that we can provide the most effective support possible.
Once the assessment is complete, our care professional will then discuss any arrangements with you and your family to ensure everyone is comfortable and on the same page.