Home Care and Healthcare Staffing in Bangor

Bangor • Gwynedd

Trusted care and staffing across Bangor

Protocol Healthcare Services works with families and care providers across Bangor and the wider Gwynedd area of North Wales. For families we arrange home care that helps a loved one stay safe and independent at home, from a short daily visit through to full live-in support. For care providers we supply qualified nurses, carers and support workers, drawing on more than ten years of experience matching the right people to the right settings.

We should be straight with you about how we work in Bangor. Our home base is in the South of England, so we do not run a local office on the Menai Strait. What we do offer is genuinely national healthcare staffing and carefully coordinated home care, arranged the same way we do everywhere we work, with enhanced DBS and right to work checks, references and training completed before anyone starts, and a consultant on hand around the clock.

Home care we arrange in Bangor

• ✓ Live-in care for round the clock support
• ✓ Hourly visiting care from 30 minute calls
• ✓ Personal care, washing and dressing
• ✓ Medication support and prompting
• ✓ Dementia, Parkinson's and complex care
• ✓ Respite and emergency cover
• ✓ Private nursing at home
• ✓ Companionship and help getting out and about

Local knowledge across Bangor

Bangor is one of the smallest cities in the United Kingdom and often described as the oldest city in Wales, sitting on the Menai Strait between the mountains of Eryri and the Isle of Anglesey. It is home to Bangor University, whose students swell the population during term time, and to landmarks such as Bangor Cathedral and the Victorian Garth Pier reaching out into the strait. Care needs are as varied as the city itself, from the tightly packed terraces of Hirael and Garth near the water, up to Upper Bangor, and out to the residential estates of Maesgeirchen and Coed Mawr, so we tailor support to the person and the place rather than offering a one size fits all service.

We regularly support people returning home after a stay at Ysbyty Gwynedd, the main district general hospital at Penrhosgarnedd on the western edge of the city, which is run by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The first weeks back at home matter, so we help with medication routines, mobility and rehabilitation support and stay in close contact with families and community teams.

Adult social care in the area is overseen by Cyngor Gwynedd, also known as Gwynedd Council, under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. Home care in Wales is regulated by Care Inspectorate Wales, known as CIW, rather than the regulator used in England. If you think a relative may qualify for help with funding, you can ask the council for a free care needs assessment, followed by a financial assessment. Many families we work with self-fund their care, and we are always happy to explain how the different routes work. You can read more on our paying for care guide.

Staffing for care providers in Bangor

Care homes, supported living services, hospitals and community teams across Bangor and North Wales rely on dependable staffing, and that is where our staffing side comes in. Our reach here is genuinely national, coordinated from the South of England rather than a local branch, so providers across Gwynedd can call on the same standard of cover as anywhere else we work. We supply NMC-registered nurses and midwives, support workers, mental health professionals and learning disability specialists, from a single shift to a fully managed rota and permanent placements. Every professional is vetted to the same high standard, so you get reliable cover without the compliance headache, whether the need is in a care home, a supported living service or an NHS Health Board setting.

Areas of Bangor we cover

We arrange home care and supply care staff across the city and the wider Gwynedd area, including:

• Upper Bangor
• Hirael
• Garth
• Maesgeirchen
• Glanadda
• Coed Mawr
• Penrhosgarnedd
• Maes Tryfan