Home Instead Senior Care Swindon & Vale of White Horse

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Swindon & Vale of White Horse

Home Instead Senior Care Swindon & Vale of White Horse is a provider of high quality homecare services in east Wiltshire and the Vale of White Horse serving Swindon, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade, Highworth, Faringdon, Wantage and surrounding areas.

The owner, John Kirk, has an unswerving vision to provide high quality, reliable, relationship-based services that allow older people to remain living independently in their own homes with the care and support that their team of CAREGivers provide. In doing so, not only will their quality of life be enhanced but family and friends will have peace of mind.

John’s heart for service to others has been a strand throughout his working life – first during a full career in the Royal Air Force Regiment followed by 3 years in food retail management with Waitrose. However, it was during the last 7 years spent serving seniors in high quality residential care across the United Kingdom that John concluded that there must be an alternative to a senior leaving their family home and memories behind with an often traumatic move into residential care. Often he found that such moves were precipitated - not by a need for the close support offered by residential care- but rather by a constant struggle by seniors and their families to find and receive quality care in their own homes. This was particularly evident when families tried to find support in the home for people living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. John quickly realised what a unique service Home Instead Senior Care offered and soon made the decision to open a Home Instead Senior Care office close to his home in order to help members of his local community. John’s mantra of ‘Touching people’s lives in a real and personal way’ is expressed through his aim for Home Instead Senior Care to be the home care service provider of first choice for elderly people in east Wiltshire and the Vale of White Horse alongside having a positive impact on the wider community as a whole.

All support is bespoke and individually planned for each client. Visits are not rushed and Home Instead understands the importance of spending time supporting clients on a social and emotional level as well as getting the necessary 'jobs' done. This enables CAREGivers to form a close relationship with their clients, providing a person centred care service which is built around the requirements of each individual. This can vary from assistance with shopping trips, companionship, escorting to appointments or social engagements as well as home help, meal preparation, personal care, support with medication and much, much more. CAREGivers will encourage, stimulate and assist clients in a variety of day to day activities to maintain their independence and improve their quality of life.

Home Instead recognises that some clients have more specialist needs and so have invested heavily in training programmes for staffing many areas but especially in supporting people living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

All CAREGivers are carefully chosen for their empathy and nurturing qualities, their caring and respectful approach to the elderly, their reliability and their willingness to match their valuable skills with the excellent training that Home Instead Senior Care has to offer.

All staff go through a rigorous selection process which includes enhanced DBS (CRB) checks and the provision of six references before training begins. This recruitment and training approach leads to the provision of a high quality service and a contented, happy work force.

John Kirk
Home Instead Senior Care
Swindon and Vale of White Horse