Welcome to Sunshine 24 hour Care Services and Nursing Agency

Sunshine Care is a family-owned business that provides the best possible specialist 24 hour live-in care service for those who live in their own home in the UK counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Avon, Dorset and Wiltshire. Our english speaking carers, who are qualified and trained professionals, support the needs of our clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, allowing them the best quality of life possible. We are members of the United Kingdom Home Care Association, (UKHCA). The costs to you of a live in care support workercan be as little as £64 per day for a self-employed Companion Housekeeper on our Live-in Care Gold service; and from £73 per day for a Personal Assistant (PA) providing personal care, (including agency charges).

Sunshine Care – 24 hour live in care service

We are providers of 24 hour live in care and enable people to remain independent in their own homes.

Our Mission Statement is:

“SERVICE ….. WITH COMPASSION …….AND DEDICATION”

Live in care provides personal and tailor made care, support and companionship, all of which is provided in the comfort of your own home.  Sunshine Care realises that engaging a carer for a friend or relative can be extremely difficult. We vouch to ease you through the assessment and funding process with our dedicated team of Care Assessors.

Choosing how to handle the care of a loved one in their later years is a difficult decision; you want to do what’s best for your family. There is no right or wrong, every family situation is different. But to be able to make an informed choice you need to know your options and understand the difference between Sunshine Care – Live in Care and our Residential Care services. We wish you to know more about the situations for which Live-in Care is the best solution.

Sunshine Care – Live in Care is a full-time home care solution that allows you or your loved one to stay at home in familiar, relaxed surroundings. Supported by a fully trained Live-in Carer who works to an individually designed care plan, many people find this one-to-one personal home care service ideal.

Live in Care and how it might benefit your individual situation:

Live-in Care is a type of care solution that allows you or your loved one to stay independent in familiar, relaxed surroundings with a comfortable routine. For those that value their independence, Live-in Care is the popular solution of choice; especially for those who that want to stay at home and not have to change their lifestyle; nor be away from their friends or pets,. A fully trained, police-checked, Live-in Carer lives in the home, has their own bedroom, and provides specialised one-to-one full time support, companionship and care. They are directed, supervised and follow an agreed care plan that is personalised to the individual. This plan of care is mostly drawn up with the assistance of family and other healthcare professionals.

Live-in Care offers the financial advantage such that, unlike the cost of a Care home, the cost of this one-to-one care solution can be offset against the capital appreciation of the property which remains a viable asset. The costs of Live-in Care are comparable to many residential or nursing homes. We can help direct you to a trusted financial adviser and solicitor in your area.

Respite Care at Home

Live in Care can be a better form of respite care because there is none of the disruption or confusion that often comes with a move to a new unfamiliar environment and the level of care and support is incomparable.
Sunshine Care is able to provide you with a carer 24 hours per day to provide you with the reassurance that someone is always there to assist with personal care, support, house keeping and to provide much needed companionship.

The live in carer would reside with the client in their own home; and follow a tailor made, person centred care and support plan, compiled with full consent of our clients and their relatives; and so will have been tailored to individual needs. You need to provide a separate room for our care workers to sleep in, which enables them to be on call in the night.

The live in carer will be available to carry out a variety of tasks including:
Domestic tasks
Personal care and support
Shopping services
Transportation
Providing companionship

Our care staff are trained to the highest standard and specialised training is sourced to meet the specific needs of our customers to ensure staff can provide the best levels of care. If you would like to arrange a no obligation assessment please give our office a call.

We only offer well trained and carefully selected care support workers. We mainly recruit in the UK to ensure that we intoduce carers or companion housekeepers who have good english speaking skills. Our team of carers, support staff and Personal Assistants ( PA's) are carefully interviewed, have first class references, and are police checked and trained before being placed with a client. The training for employed care workers, and self-employed PA's, consists of a 4 to 5 day supervised induction which includes first aid, health and safety, infection control, abuse, care overview and shadowing out in the field with an experienced care assistant.

Value for money: We may be one of the cheapest care providers of companions and care workers, but other companies cannot match our quality value, considering the attention and administration support we provide to our clients, our care staff and personal assistants.

If you are looking to directly employ a Nurse on a full or part-time basis please look on our websites:

Sunshine Care Nursing Agency          www.sunshinecareagency.co.uk

Sunshine Care Nurse Recruitment     www.sunshinepersonnel.co.uk

Hourly Home Care

This is for clients who need help, care or companions, occasionally throughout the day, but not continuously for 24 hours a day. Care Assistants will visit you, for example, for an hour twice a day.

We supply this service in Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon.

Our care staff can support service users, enabling them to take care of general everyday and personal tasks, that allow the client to maintain their independence and continue to live at home.

We offer a range of personal care services, such as:
Help getting up in the morning - toileting and bathing, washing and dressing.
Help with going to bed in the evening.
Help overseeing medication.
Overnight stays where necessary.

We also offer general services; such as:
General housework, as well as laundry and preparing meals.
Errands like shopping, collecting pensions, benefits or prescriptions.
Administrative help such as letter writing, making phone calls or filling out forms.
Help getting out and about, taking trips, visiting friends or going on excursions.
Sitting services that provide relief for an existing family Carer.

We cssisan help those clients who are in receipt of Direct Payments and Individual Budgets to find their directly-employed Personal Assistants, (PA's), through our Recruitment Agency website: www.sunshinepersonnel.co.uk; and through our Nursing Agency website: www.sunshinecareagency.co.uk.

Free assessments

Free assessments for those clients who decide to use our services. Unlike some agencies we do not charge a fee for live-in care assessments. Domiciliary care assessments are also free. We use this time to assess the level of care that you need and to get to know you. This way we can match the most suitable carer or care support staff to each client.

Looking for work as a Carer or Nurse?

There is always a large selection of temporary and permanent jobs for carers and nurses as we have more than 600 clients, not including other care establishments, where we can place you on temporary or permanent assignments. See Sunshine Care Nursing Agency and Sunshine Personnel website; www.sunshinepersonnel.co.uk.

Work with a company that is committed to giving you excellent support and satisfying work and jobs. Our clients are feedback to us that they are very happy with the services we provide with the way our carers support them to remain independent and to make things work in the best possible way.

Social Work Professionals

Nearly half of our clients, who require care at home, are supported directly or indirectly by the statutory sector. We are familiar with different methods of financing care packages. Our carers are carefully matched in terms of skills, personality and experience to the needs of our service users. We endeavour to provide continuity of care with a key carer assigned to each care package, trained in medication, first aid and other key skills. We also find placements and permanent jobs for Health and Social Care professionals seeking new career and job opportunites through Sunshine Personnel. This can be anywhere in the UK.

Quality Assurance, Training and Police Checks

We will not assign care workers or PA’s to clients before they have passed our careful recruitment and vetting process and completed four to five days of intensive training in our sister training company, ACE Quality Training Ltd, passing all their tests. Sunshine Care UK is a quality provider of health and social adult care services providing live in care in homes in Truro, St Austell, Bodmin, Newquay, Penzance, Falmouth, Rock, Plymouth, Newton Abbot, Exeter, Torquay, Tiverton, Taunton, Bridgewater, Bath, Bristol, Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth, and many other towns in the UK.

Residential Care

For an example of our 24 hour residential care services see The Retreat Care Home, which has been given an Excellent rating by the Care Quality Commission.

Disability Products & Aids and Mobility Equipment

Visit our Sunshine Care Supplies website and shops to explore the many ways in which we can help to make your life easier and more fun. We supply many Care and Nursing Establishments with equipment.