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Dial4Care Recruitment Ltd

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

2nd Floor, 22 Grove Place, Bedford, MK40 3JJ (01234) 261366

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Dial4Care Recruitment Ltd

All Inspections

During an assessment under our new approach

Date of assessment 21 February 2025 to 07 March 2025.

About the service: Dial4Care Recruitment Ltd is a domiciliary care agency. It provides personal care to people, younger adults and children living in their own homes in the community. Not everyone using a domiciliary care agency receives regulated activity; CQC only inspects the service being received by people provided with 'personal care'; help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do, we also take into account any wider social care provided.

At the time of our assessment the service was supporting 5 young people of ages between 0-18 years.

As part of our assessment methodology for people with a learning disability and autistic people, we assess if services are meeting the Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture (RSRCRC) statutory guidance. This includes: Right support: Model of care and setting maximises people's choice, control, and independence.

Right care: Care is person-centred and promotes people's dignity, privacy, and human rights.

Right culture: Ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of leaders and care staff ensure people using services lead confident, inclusive, and empowered lives.

The provider was able to demonstrate how they were meeting all of the underpinning principles of Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture. Right Support.

We looked at 11 quality statements and our overall rating remains Good.

We found that staff were exceptionally caring and compassionate and have rated the key question of Caring as Outstanding. Treating people with dignity and respect, and person-centred care was at the very heart of the service.

6 February 2019

During a routine inspection

About the service:

Dial4Care Recruitment Ltd is a domiciliary care agency. It provides personal care to people living in their own houses and flats in the community. Not everyone using a domiciliary care agency receives regulated activity; CQC only inspects the service being received by people provided with 'personal care'; help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do we also take into account any wider social care provided.

The service also provides care and support to people living in two 'supported living' settings, so that they can live in their own home as independently as possible. People's care and housing are provided under separate contractual agreements. CQC does not regulate premises used for supported living; this inspection looked at people’s personal care and support.

The service supports adults and children. At the time of the inspection, they were supporting five young people, of ages 16-18 years.

People’s experience of using this service:

¿ Staff had been trained on how to protect people from harm, and they knew how to report concerns.

¿ Potential risks to people’s health and wellbeing were assessed and minimised.

¿ There were enough staff to meet people’s needs safely.

¿ People's medicines were managed safely.

¿ Staff followed effective processes to prevent the spread of infection.

¿ Staff had been trained and had the right skills to meet people's needs effectively.

¿ Staff were well supported and had information they needed to meet people’s assessed needs.

¿ Staff supported people to have enough to eat and drink.

¿ Staff supported people to access healthcare services when required, to help maintain their health and well-being.

¿ People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives, and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible. The policies and systems in the service supported this practice.

¿ People were fully involved in making decisions about their care and support.

¿ People were involved in the planning and reviewing of their care plans.

¿ People told us staff were caring and friendly.

¿ Staff respected and promoted people’s privacy, dignity and independence.

¿ Information in people's care plans supported staff to deliver person-centred care that met people’s needs.

¿The registered manager sought feedback from people about the quality of the service provided.

¿ The registered manager worked in partnership with other professionals to ensure people received care that met their needs.

¿ There was a system to ensure people’s suggestions and complaints were recorded, investigated, and acted upon to reduce the risk of recurrence.

¿ Audits and quality monitoring checks were carried out regularly to continually improve the service.

Rating at last inspection:

¿ This was the first inspection following the provider registering with the Care Quality Commission on 2 February 2018.

Why we inspected:

¿ This was a planned inspection following registration with the Care Quality Commission.

Follow up:

¿ We will continue to monitor all information we receive about the service and schedule the next inspection accordingly.