We provide skilled and compassionate care for people with life-limiting conditions.
Bringing a hospice ethos to social care. Currently covering Sidmouth and the Sid Valley in East Devon.
We care about you, we care about your family, and we recognise that your time is precious.
It is a sad fact that while most people approaching the end of their lives express a wish to be cared for in their own home, for many this is not possible, because they cannot find the care and support they need.
Through TLC’s Carer Introduction Service, we will help you to find exceptional carers to support you and your loved ones, helping you to enjoy a better quality of life and remain in your own home at this precious time.
How we can support you
Whether you are someone looking for care for yourself or a loved one, or you would like to work with us as one of our dedicated Personal Assistants, or you would like to refer someone to us who needs care, we can help!
We put the TLC into care!
Our P.A.’s will listen to what matters to you, and give you as much time as you need.
Our care is different because it is based on a supportive relationship between you and your chosen P.A.
Working with TLC
If you have a vocation to look after people as they approach the end of their lives, but long to deliver personalised care in a different way, read on.
Let’s support people together! Get in touch to find out more.
Referring to TLC
You can signpost clients to get in touch with TLC, confident in the knowledge that our Personal Assistants have the experience, skills and personal qualities that palliative patients need and that employment checks are in place.
Need help getting care?
Who will benefit?
You will! Whether you are someone with a palliative condition needing care, you are a family carer needing support, you are a Personal Assistants. looking for rewarding work with palliative clients, or you are a healthcare professional signposting a patient to find good care: TLC can help!
People in the palliative stages of their illness
It can be the little things that count, and the supportive relationship people build with their Personal Assistants. can make a huge difference to their quality of life at this time.
Family Carers
Can be better prepared and supported to carry on caring for their loved one. Our sitting services will provide respite and support, allowing them a break from caring and the reassurance of companionship at a difficult time.
Personal Assistants
Personal Assistants will benefit by TLC finding them clients matched to their strengths and work preferences, and the positives of being self-employed.
TLC will support them, and they will feel valued for the care they give.
We ensure our Personal Assistants are insured, have a valid DBS check, and mandatory training is in place.
Health care providers, and specialist palliative care teams.
TLC will provide high-quality, personalised, and cost-effective social care that will complement the skills provided by community nursing and Hospice at Home teams.
We will endeavour to prevent avoidable acute admissions in the last few weeks of someone’s life, and to facilitate discharge when someone does need to go into hospital or hospice.
Your questions
Hospices recognise that quality of life is paramount in the last months of someone’s life, and so does TLC. No-one can express this better than Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement: “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all that we can, not only to help you to die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”
This stands for a Community Interest Company. A community interest company is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximize profit for shareholders and owners.
A personal assistant is a person who works directly with one or more individuals, to support them with various aspects of their daily life so that they can live it in a way they choose. The person seeking care can either employ them directly, or they can employ a self-employed Personal Assistant.
A Carer Introduction Service does just what it says on the tin. We introduce Carers, or Personal Assistants to people with palliative conditions who need care.
But there is more to it than that. We interview every one of our Personal Assistants, to ensure that they have the skills, experience and training they need, and that pre-employment checks are in place: DBS checks, insurance, right to work in the UK, references. In addition, we will meet every person seeking care, to fully understand their care needs. Then we match them to the client, taking into account their personalities and interests.
Once the introduction is made, the relationship needs to work for both parties. If not, we can make another match, until we get it right.