About the service Warren Homecare is a domiciliary care service that provides personal care to people in their own homes. At the time of our inspection there were 13 people using the service.
Not everyone who used the service received personal care. CQC only inspects where people receive personal care. This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do, we also consider any wider social care provided.
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. 'Right support, right care, right culture' is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
People and relatives were complimentary about their experience with Warren Homecare and would recommend using the service. One person shared, “The care staff have been really lovely and those who visit are kind hearted.”
The provider had processes in place to keep people safe and manage risks, including risks around infection prevention and control. There were sufficient suitably skilled staff to support people safely. There were processes to manage people's medicines, and to protect people from the risk of abuse or poor care.
The management team and staff worked with people, relatives, and other professionals to achieve person centred care and good outcomes for people.
Staff understood the importance of gaining consent from people and ensured people's privacy and dignity was respected. People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.
Care workers respected people's rights to privacy, dignity, and independence. They knew the person they were supporting well and described care that was person centred and very much led by the individual. People told us the care workers were caring, kind and respectful.
Whilst the registered managers delivered care and maintained an overview of activities, we have made a recommendation they review and strengthen their systems for monitoring the quality and safety of the service to ensure they are robust.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
This service was registered with us on 27 January 2022 and this is the first inspection.
Why we inspected
This was a planned inspection to check whether the provider was meeting legal requirements and regulations, and to provide a rating for the service as directed by the Care Act 2014.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.