Home & Visiting Care in Wandsworth

Wandsworth • South West London

Flexible hourly visiting care at home in Wandsworth

Not everyone needs round-the-clock support. For many people in Wandsworth, the right answer is a helping hand at the right moments of the day: someone to help you get up and dressed, a prompt to take your medication, a hot meal at lunchtime, or simply a friendly face to check all is well. That is what our visiting care is built for. Calls start from as little as 30 minutes and can be arranged once a day, several times a day, or on a pattern that changes as your needs do, so you keep your independence and stay in the home you know.

We will be honest about how we work. Protocol Healthcare Services is based in the South of England, with offices in Edgware and Bournemouth, so we do not run a shopfront on Wandsworth High Street. What we do run is a national home-care and staffing service built on carefully vetted people. Every Care Professional who visits your home has passed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training, and wherever possible the same familiar faces return to you, so a genuine relationship can grow between visits in Balham, Southfields or Earlsfield.

What visiting care in Wandsworth can include

• ✓ Short drop-in calls from 30 minutes
• ✓ Help getting up, washed and dressed
• ✓ Medication prompts and reminders
• ✓ Meal preparation and help with eating
• ✓ Light housework, laundry and shopping
• ✓ Companionship and check-in visits
• ✓ Help getting to appointments and out and about
• ✓ Morning, lunchtime, teatime and bedtime calls

Care that fits around your day in Wandsworth

The beauty of visiting care is that it flexes. A single morning call may be all that is needed to start the day well, or you might build up to four visits a day covering breakfast, lunch, tea and settling at night. Families often begin with a small package and add to it gently over time. We can arrange a lunchtime call so a parent in Furzedown eats a proper meal, a bedtime visit to help someone in Tooting settle safely, or a mid-morning companionship hour to get out to Northcote Road or a bench on Wandsworth Common. Because we plan the visits with you, they slot around the routines that matter rather than replacing them.

Local knowledge across the borough

Wandsworth stretches from the Thames at Putney and Battersea down through Wandsworth Town, Tooting and Balham, mixing busy town centres with a great deal of green space. Our visiting Care Professionals support people right across it: a check-in call in a flat near Clapham Junction, personal care in a terrace by King George's Park and the Wandle, help with the shops near the Southside Shopping Centre, or companionship for someone in Roehampton or West Hill. Keeping those local routines going is often the difference between merely coping and genuinely living well at home.

Visiting care also plays a big role after a hospital stay. St George's Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, both part of St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discharge many local people who need a little support during recovery rather than full-time care. A short daily visit to manage medication, meals and mobility can make the first weeks home safer, and we simply reduce the calls as confidence and independence return.

Funding and arranging visiting care in Wandsworth

Visiting care is charged by the hour or by the visit, so you only pay for the support you actually use, which makes it one of the most cost-effective ways to start receiving care. Many Wandsworth families self-fund, and some qualify for help. Wandsworth Borough Council, based at the Town Hall on Wandsworth High Street, can carry out a free care needs assessment followed by a financial assessment. Care at home in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which sets the standards we work to. Our team is always happy to talk through the routes, and our paying for care guide explains them in plain English.

More than home care: staffing across Wandsworth

We are also an REC-affiliated healthcare staffing agency. Care homes, supported living services and community teams across South West London call on us for reliable cover, from support workers and nurses to mental health specialists. If you commission or run care in the borough, our staffing services page has the detail.

Areas of Wandsworth we cover for visiting care

We arrange hourly and visiting care right across the borough and the surrounding SW postcodes, including:

• Wandsworth Town
• Putney
• Battersea
• Tooting
• Balham
• Earlsfield
• Southfields
• Roehampton
• Clapham Junction
• Nine Elms
• Furzedown
• West Hill