Home & Visiting Care in Nottingham

Nottingham • East Midlands

Flexible visiting care that fits around your day in Nottingham

Not everyone needs round-the-clock support. Sometimes the difference between coping and struggling is a helping hand at the right moments of the day, a call to help with washing and dressing in the morning, a prompt to take medication at lunchtime, a hot meal in the evening. Home and visiting care in Nottingham gives you exactly that: flexible hourly support that flexes around your routine rather than the other way round, so you or your loved one can carry on living independently at home.

Protocol Healthcare Services arranges visiting care from short 30-minute calls right up to several visits a day. We will be honest about how we work: our offices are in the South of England, so we do not run a shopfront in Nottingham, but we operate a genuinely national service and coordinate vetted, background-checked Care Professionals wherever they are needed. Everyone has completed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training before their first visit, and a consultant is on hand around the clock.

What visiting care in Nottingham can include

• ✓ Short calls from around 30 minutes upward
• ✓ Morning, lunchtime, teatime and bedtime visits
• ✓ Washing, dressing and personal care
• ✓ Medication prompts and support
• ✓ Meal preparation, drinks and nutrition
• ✓ Light housework, laundry and shopping
• ✓ Drop-in and check-in visits for reassurance
• ✓ Companionship and help getting out and about

Build a visit schedule around your week

Visiting care works best when it is shaped around real life. A single daily call may be all that is needed to help someone in Mapperley or Carlton start the day well. Others prefer a pattern of visits, morning, lunch, tea and a settle at bedtime, so there is steady support without anyone moving out of the home they love. You can add a visit before a hospital appointment, a companionship call to get to a group in the Old Market Square area, or a check-in when family live too far away to pop round. As needs change, the schedule changes with them, and if support eventually needs to be constant we can move seamlessly to live-in care without changing provider.

Local knowledge across Nottingham

We arrange visiting care right across the city, from Sherwood and Bulwell in the north to Clifton in the south, out west to Wollaton, Bilborough, Lenton and Radford, and into the surrounding communities of West Bridgford, Beeston, Arnold and Carlton. Nottingham is a compact city but its streets vary hugely, from tight inner-city terraces to quieter suburban closes, and we match Care Professionals and visit timings to the person and the place. Whether you are in the NG1 city centre, NG8 towards Wollaton or NG2 across the river, we can usually put a plan in place quickly.

Short daily visits are also a practical way to settle back in after a hospital stay. People discharged from Queen's Medical Centre off Derby Road in NG7, or from Nottingham City Hospital in Sherwood, both part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, often need a few weeks of help with medication, mobility and confidence before they are fully back on their feet. Visiting care bridges that gap and keeps community teams and family in the loop.

Funding your visiting care in Nottingham

Visiting care is usually charged by the hour or by the visit, so you only pay for the support you actually use. Many Nottingham families self-fund, but help may be available: Nottingham City Council can carry out a free care needs assessment followed by a financial assessment, and if you already receive a personal budget or direct payment we can work alongside it. Our team is happy to explain the options in plain English, and you can read more on our paying for care guide.

More than home care: staffing for Nottingham providers

We are also an REC-affiliated healthcare staffing agency with national reach. Care homes, supported living services and community teams across Nottingham call on us for reliable cover, from support workers and NMC-registered nurses to mental health and learning disability specialists. If you commission or run services in the East Midlands, see our staffing services overview.

Areas of Nottingham we cover for visiting care

We arrange hourly and visiting care across the city and its surrounding communities, including:

• Sherwood
• Bulwell
• Wollaton
• Mapperley
• Bilborough
• Lenton
• Radford
• Clifton
• West Bridgford
• Beeston
• Arnold
• Carlton