Domiciliary Care Services

Domiciliary Care Services are committed to working alongside service user’s and their carers/representatives to promote their health and well-being in the home environment, to offer care and support which reflects a multi-disciplinary assessed need, with the aim to promote independence, improve and sustain quality of life so that people will remain living in their own homes for as long as they are able to do so.

Domiciliary Care Workers will provide care to enable service users to manage their daily living tasks, which is informed by an assessment of need. The care is co-produced with service users, their carer/significant person.

The assessment of need will be reviewed by the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that changing needs are being provided for in the most effective and efficient way possible.

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• Eligibility Criteria
  • Adults aged 18 years and over living within the South Eastern H&SC Trust area.
  • Eligibility for an individual is determined following a person centred assessment. The criteria for accessing a Domiciliary Care service is detailed in the Department of Health circular which all Trusts across the region are guided by: dhsspsni.gov.uk, Circular HSS (ECCU) 2008: Regional Access Criteria for Domiciliary Care.
• Referrals

  Referrals to this service can only be made by a health care professional following an assessment of need.

  The outcome of the assessment will inform the need for care and support which may include other options to provide a service, instead of a traditional Domiciliary Care service. This will be agreed and co-produced with service users, family or a significant person who can represent their best interests. If services are required they will be offered and provided dependent on the availability of the service at that time.

• Contact Details

  If you would like more information on Domiciliary Care Services across the South Eastern HSC Trust area contact the named health care professional for the service user. A domiciliary care service is individual to each service user dependent on the assessment of need at that time and place.