Home care in Great Barr

Home care in Great Barr, including the Walsall side around Queslett and the Scott Arms, from carers employed by our Walsall team.

Arrange a free care assessment Call 0330 056 3111

Great Barr sits on the boundary of Walsall, Birmingham and Sandwell. This page is the canonical one, run by the Walsall team, and it covers the B43 streets people mean when they say Great Barr: around the Scott Arms, Queslett, the Hall and the park, and towards Pheasey and Newton. It is mostly houses with gardens, many of them family homes that one person is now living in alone. Enquiries often come from daughters and sons in Kingstanding, Streetly or Perry Barr who are doing the shopping and the medication run and can see that it is no longer enough. Some follow a discharge from Walsall Manor Hospital, and some from Good Hope in Sutton Coldfield, which is the hospital a number of Great Barr families actually use.

Because the area is shared by three boroughs, people are used to being told to phone somewhere else. If you live in Great Barr, this is the team. Carers are employed by Caring Care and introduced by name. Rounds are planned across Great Barr and Pheasey so the travel between houses is realistic and the visit is not squeezed. We agree whether the call is help to wash and dress, time over a meal, or a longer sit so a family carer can go out. The coordinator stays the same person when the plan changes, which it usually does in the first month as everyone learns what is actually needed.

Personal care, companionship, respite and live-in care are all provided in Great Barr. Live-in care is worth a proper conversation where the house is large and the nights are the worry, because three short visits can leave a long gap. We do not provide clinical nursing. GPs, and the hospital team if there has just been an admission, keep that responsibility, and we carry out the day-to-day support written into the plan. The assessment is free, at home, and there is no obligation to go ahead if we are not the right fit. Call 0330 056 3111 and say Great Barr, and which side of Queslett or the Scott Arms the house is on. That is enough for the Walsall team to place the visit.

Care we provide in Great Barr

Great Barr families ask for personal care at home, companionship through the day, and live-in care when a large house and the nights together are too much for visiting calls.