If you are in need of a private nurse to provide home care for you or a family member, contact our Nurse Coordinators by phone on 01732 355231 or by email at nursing@consultuscare.com and we will arrange for a Live-in Nurse to provide the necessary care. 

We understand how stressful it is when a family member falls ill. Thankfully, we have Live-in Nurses and Live-in Carers across England and Wales to suit your needs. Call our dedicated care team on 01732 355 231 and they will help find you the right nurse to meet your family’s needs. 

We believe receiving Live-in Nursing care at home helps to prevent postoperative complications and allows you to enjoy the comfort of friends and family. Our Rehabilitation Live-in Nurses can assist with your rehabilitation after an operation and provide physiotherapy exercises, wound care, stoma care and the administration of medication. 

Our rates for live-in nurses are based on a fixed weekly charge or pro-rata per day with a minimum of four days booking. Our Nurse Coordinators will be happy to discuss your needs and create a bespoke service for you and your individual requirements. Each situation is different and we want to work with you to provide the best live-in nursing experience we can. 

We are able to provide a live-in nurse for as long as you need. However, our minimum booking is four days/nights up to two weeks. After two weeks, our nurses often take a break, in which case we will arrange a replacement nurse. The same nurses can be allocated on a rota basis for long-term nursing support.

If a client only needs assistance once or twice a night for short periods, then the day nurse can provide this at an agreed overtime rate. However, if a day nurse is regularly woken more than twice a night, then it’s likely that additional assistance is needed.

If a client needs continuous 24-hour care then two nurses can be supplied, one on day duty and one on night duty.

You’ll need to provide our nurses with a private room, access to essential household amenities, and their meals – to be taken with the client where appropriate. In those cases where two nurses are required to live because of complicated medical needs, then they’ll both need a separate private room in the client’s home. Or a bedroom in the client’s home and a second room in a nearby relative’s home.

Our aim is always to provide continuity of nursing care without interruption. In unforeseen circumstances, our Nurse Coordinators will replace the outgoing Live-in Nurse with as little delay as possible – never leaving the client without medical care.

By the time the nurse arrives at the client’s home, our team will have put in many hours of preparatory work. At the same time, our nurse will have committed herself/himself to a booking which typically lasts for 14 days or more.

For these reasons, we do charge a deposit which is equivalent to four-day fees. In the event of a cancellation before the booking starts, this is non-refundable. However, if the booking goes ahead, this is simply deducted from the first invoice.

We know from long experience that delays to hospital discharge can force postponements to confirmed bookings, which can mean delaying our nurse’s arrival. Similarly, you may need to request a break in service because of a temporary hospital admission. In these instances, to avoid the break-up of an established rota, we try to arrange for the nurse to remain on paid standby.

We’re happy to say this is extremely rare, but when things do go wrong we need to know as soon as possible. Please contact us either by phone on 01732 355231 or email nursing@consultuscare.com or post to 17 London Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN10 3AB. We promise to investigate and provide you with a substantive response as quickly as we can.

All Consultus Nurses have undergone the strictest selection procedure, culminating in a two-hour face-to-face interview. We check that they have:

• Their qualifications and documentation verified by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• A minimum of three years’ post-registration experience and are RN1-qualified
• Two professional references that comment on their clinical skills and competencies
• A Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure
• Evidence of their ongoing Post-Registration Education and Practice (PREP).

Our Live-in Nurses stay with each client for the duration of the assignment, typically up to two weeks on rotation. They work seven days a week and twelve hours per day, including a daily two-hour break, the timing of which is flexible and is agreed between the client and nurse. They will also work overtime at a slightly enhanced rate and are on hand for any night calls.

Absolutely, we do like to make home nursing as affordable as possible. If payment needs to be met by two people or organisations, we’d simply raise two timesheets and two invoices. It’s then up to you and the second party to decide who pays what proportion of costs. Our only caveat is that we and our nurse should ideally have just one point of contact for clinical matters, timesheets and local supervision.