Our Care Team

We select only highly capable, compassionate Personal Carers who are professionally and personally compatible with our clients. We believe that in order to provide the hightest standard of care to our clients, our Carers must also be of the highest standard.

Recruitment

All carers are carefully selected, screened, reference checked and Garda Vetted. As their employer, Homecare Solutions handle all the responsibilities of taxes, PRSI and insurance costs.

Education & Training

Our Carers attend an intensive training course when they join Homecare Solutions. All our Personal carers are QQI Level 5 certified at a minimum requirement. Homecare Solutions are affiliated with LHP Skillnet Ireland who tailor specialist training programmes for our dedicated Care Team; this facilitates us to keep up with the further educational needs of our Care Team and the changing needs of our clients regularly. In addition to these specialist training provisions, we also provide a thorough induction programme which includes but is not limited to:

Homecare Solutions Induction Training

Introduction of our services, The ethos of the company and mission statement.
The ageing process and common illnesses of older people
Policies and procedures of Homecare Solutions including Personal Appearance, PPE, confidentiality
Communication, listening skills, record keeping
Supervision and quality assurance
Vulnerable adult Policy
Medication Policy
Infection Prevention & Control practises
Safe working practices including protection of client, security in the home, client home entering protocol

Activities of Daily Living
Palliative Care
Safeguarding, Elder abuse awareness, protocols and reporting procedures
Emergency procedures and incident reporting
Complaint’s procedures
Basic personal and food hygiene and infection control
Client's Financial and Property Policy
10 hour Field training

Homecare Solutions Specialist Training

Falls Prevention-Stand up to falls training in conjunction with the Waterfalls Clinic
COVID-19 stopping the spread of infection
Catheter, Stoma care, Pressure Sores
Basic First Aid

Person Centred Dementia Care as part of the DCU Dementia Champions programme
Skillnet tailored training courses
People moving and handling training
Donning & Doffing PPE

Supervision of Staff

Homecare Solutions carry out regular reviews with our clients to ensure their needs are being met by the Carer. We also carry out spot checks on the Carer while in the home to ensure the best level of care possible is being provided. We use telemonitoring to ensure our carers arrive to your loved one safely. This works via an app on the carers phone which allows them to log in when they arrive and log out when they depart. The carer app is linked to our office database and we can monitor these logs in realtime.

Our Management Team

Stacey Cunningham HND Applied Social Studies/DIPLM Operations Manager

Maura Shanahan RGN/RM Care Manager

Martina Gillen RGN Care Manager