Care Services Directory2019
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Hertfordshire Care Services Directory 2019 The essential guide to choosing and paying for care and support In association with Hertfordshire Care Providers Association www.carechoices.co.uk A Care Home with a difference A Centre of Care & Excellence Discover a haven that you will be happy to “Working with extreme passion to give the best care we can” l Luxurious rooms all with generous en suite facilities enjoying vast natural light and stunning views. l Short or long term care is available for people of various ages & needs. l In-house physiotherapy gym with highly qualified professionals. l Set in 18 acres of naturally landscaped grounds full of wildlife, including patios and paths to spend time outdoors. l A unique orangery for private dining with guests, including a fully stocked bar. Take a 360-degree virtual tour of the facilities on our website or come and visit us. Foxholes Care Home, Pirton Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 2EN Tel: 01462 410767 & Email: [email protected] www.foxholescarehome.com Contents Introduction 4 Paying for care 45 How to use this Directory Understanding the system Hertfordshire Care Providers Association 5 Important information 47 ‘Sharing best practice in care’ Further help and information Helping you to stay independent 5 Residential care in Hertfordshire 53 Local services, equipment and solutions Comprehensive listings by region Support from the council 13 Useful local contacts 78 First steps and assessment Useful national contacts 79 Services for carers 15 Assessment, benefits and guidance Index 81 Care in your own home 17 How it can help Essential checklists Assistive technology 12 Home care agency 23 Living with dementia at home 19 Care homes 42 Family support, respite and services Residential dementia care 44 Paying for care in your home 21 Understanding your options Home care providers 25 A comprehensive list of local agencies Housing with care 35 The different models available Specialist services 36 All the listings in this publication of care homes, Disability care, end of life care and advocacy care homes with nursing and home care providers are supplied by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Care homes 39 and Care Choices Ltd cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions. Types of homes and activities explained To obtain extra copies of this Directory, free of charge, call Care Choices on 01223 207770. This Directory is available electronically at www.carechoices.co.uk where there Alternative formats is a Browsealoud option for those requiring the information in spoken word. Visit www.carechoices.co.uk for further assistance with your search for care 3 Introduction Welcome to this edition of the independent There’s also important information about care Hertfordshire Care Services Directory, which decisions, including finding care in another county, contains information for adults looking for care or making a comment or complaint about a service and support within the county, whether they are paying how solicitors can help you. for it themselves or receiving support from the council. Staying as independent as possible is important to everybody. This Directory contains information about the care and support services available to enable you to do this when remaining at home, moving into a housing with care scheme, or within a care home or care home with nursing. If you feel you need support to remain independent, first look to your community. There’s a host of organisations and voluntary services that could help you. Finding care in your area If you think you need more formal care and support, arrange an assessment with your local Adult Social Looking for care in your area? Want to know the Services department to establish your specific quality rating of providers you’re considering? needs. This is free, irrespective of your income and Care Choices, publisher of this Directory, has a available to all those who appear to need care and website providing comprehensive details of care support. More details are provided on page 13. The providers as well as essential information. assessment will determine whether you are eligible for financial support via a Personal Budget, which You can search by postcode, county or region for may allow you to buy in your own support and take care homes, care homes with nursing and home control of your situation. care providers that meet your needs across the country. Alternatively, your circumstances may mean you are classed as a ‘self-funder’, with the means to pay Your search can be refined by the type of care you for your care. This is discussed on page 21 for those are looking for and the results can be sent to you paying for care at home and 45 for those paying for by email. They can also be saved and emailed to residential care. others. Support or care to remain living in your own The website includes detailed information for home may be the option that best suits your each care provider, including the address, phone circumstances. Ideas to make life easier at home number and the service’s latest CQC inspection start on page 8 and a list of local home care report and rating (see page 49), indicating the providers begins on page 25. quality of care provided. If you are unable to remain at home, you may want You can also view an electronic version of this to consider a housing with care scheme (see page Directory on the site and have it read to you by 35) or residential care. Comprehensive lists of care using the ‘Browsealoud’ function. Visit homes and care homes with nursing in Hertfordshire www.carechoices.co.uk start on page 55. 4 Search for care at www.carechoices.co.uk to find support in your area Hertfordshire Care Providers Association Hertfordshire Care better ways of working for the future. Providers Association (HCPA) is a membership HCPA also acts as a dedicated funding hub for the body open to all county to help ensure that there is a fully-trained, Hertfordshire Care Providers Association independent providers up-to-date and competent workforce providing of social care (private, not-for-profit and charitable good quality, personalised care, and each year we organisations) delivering care to people in their celebrate excellence in care by hosting the annual own homes, in a residential, supported or a nursing Hertfordshire Care Awards. setting within Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire care providers who hold a current We are extremely dedicated to our mission of membership with HCPA are committed to ‘sharing best practice in care through partnership’, delivering the highest standards of care and keen to and through our close relationship with Adult play an active part in the county’s wider social care Care Services at Hertfordshire County Council, community. we are able to act as a voice for care providers on important adult social care issues in Hertfordshire. We actively encourage anyone who provides adult social care in Hertfordshire to join HCPA as HCPA has excellent partnership links to the local a member; we can offer up-to-date information, authority, the NHS and its clinical commissioning support and advice, training courses and groups. Our relationship with the local authority qualifications, and a host of business services. has gone from strength to strength and, by working in partnership, we can ensure that Hertfordshire is We are happy to engage with any new care one of the best counties in which to find excellent provider. Visit our website on www.hcpa.info for care for vulnerable adults. more information, email us on [email protected], or call 01707 536020. We’ll be happy to help. We attend regular strategic and liaison meetings with Adult Social Services at the local authority We are delighted to be associated with this to discuss and review contracts and procedures, publication produced by Care Choices, and we as well as a variety of initiatives aimed at tackling hope you find this Directory useful in your search issues facing vulnerable adults and designing for appropriate care in Hertfordshire. Helping you to stay independent Hertfordshire County Council At Hertfordshire County Council, we want to help and request a social care assessment. You can also you stay independent and active, remain living in find out about equipment, gadgets and social care your home and have choices about any care and apps to make life easier. support you receive. Visit www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/directory for Our website www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/adults information on services, groups and activities in has lots of information about how the council can your community. help you. Telephone us on 0300 123 4042 if you would rather You can apply for a Blue Badge, Meals on Wheels talk to someone. Visit www.carechoices.co.uk for further assistance with your search for care 5 HertsHelp: Independent information, advice and support in Hertfordshire HertsHelp are here to listen and help you find • get equipment to be independent and safe at support, advice and information you need to get home; and the most out of life. HertsHelp can help you get out • get through a difficult time. and about, understand your rights and entitlements and volunteer in your community. HertsHelp can put you in touch with other organisations that can HertsHelp can talk things through on the telephone help too. You may need to pay for some services, but or face to face and come up with a plan to help you HertsHelp will let you know at the start. feel more in control of your situation. HertsHelp can help you to: You can contact us directly or your GP, support worker or relative can refer you to HertsHelp with • find local clubs and activities; your permission.