Welcome to Herts & Essex Independence at Home, providing specialist support services in your own home for people with learning disabilities and associated needs.
About Us
Herts & Essex Independence at Home aims to deliver excellent person-centred practice by putting the people we support at the heart of what we do.
We provide high quality care and support for our unique individuals with differing needs and wishes.
We build relationships on mutual respect and trust by working together with our service users and their families/representatives.
We aim to be leaders in specialist domiciliary outcome-focused care provision.
Herts and Essex Independence at Home are registered with the Care Quality Commission and work to the Fundamental Standards.
Services
Herts and Essex was established in 2015 with clear aims:
- Provide specialist care and support provision at home and in the community, 24 hours a day, 52 weeks per year.
- Enable choice and control over your daily life, health and wellbeing
- Give value for money by providing tailor made care and support packages including:
- Hourly care and support at home and in the community
- Personal care and support
- Night time care
- Day time activities and work experience support
- Assistance and advice on housing options
- Assistance with Self-directed support payments
- Care Services Consultancy
Management Team
John Murphy and Michele Fuller are the Directors at Herts & Essex Independence at Home and Michele is also the Registered Manager.
Both John and Michele have extensive experience working within the learning disability care sector and hold Level 5 Qualifications in Management and Care.
Managers: Herts & Essex Independence at Home employs experienced, qualified and competent Managers to ensure a well led quality service that operates seamlessly to provide the best possible outcomes for its Service Users.
The Management Team meet at least monthly to uphold consistent communications amongst the whole team and to ensure all services are running smoothly.
All of our care staff are experienced in the care sector and hold minimum Level 2 qualifications in Health and Social Care. They are encouraged and supported through a programme of continuous professional development to enhance their skills and knowledge levels
All staff are checked with the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously CRB)
We pride ourselves on our friendly, open, respectful and caring team.
Staff Support Team
We are committed to recruiting the best staff possible to support and enable our service users in their daily life.
We aim to attract skilled, experience and qualified staff who can bring the best quality of care and support to the people trusting us to meet their support needs.
We regularly benchmark our staff remuneration packages within the sector and with local providers and we consistently rank in the top percentile for Domiciliary Care.
Our staff our supported by House Managers and the CQC Registered Manager and they work on a rota basis across the 24 hour day to ensure Service Users have every the opportunity to live full lives as independently as possible.
Staff receive regular mandatory training and refresher courses throughout the year and are supported in exceeding the minimum standards for Care qualifications.
Recruitment & Job Opportunities
Herts & Essex Independence at Home recruit and retain a committed staff team. We do everything we can to ensure staff are well supported, motivated and working in a rewarding job role.
Our aim is to provide excellent working conditions for staff, with a framework of good support and supervision, communication and feedback, external training and in-house learning and inclusion in the company’s development aims and future planning.
If you are interested in working for Herts & Essex Independence at Home please see below for our current vacancies, and if you are interested in receiving an application form then please complete the enquiry form at the bottom of the page.
Permanent full time position, 37.5 hours per week, £9.00 per hour Midweek, £10.80 per hour Weekends based in the Bishops Stortford area.
Download Support Worker job specCasual hours, £8.72 per hour Midweek, £10.46 per hour Weekends based in the Bishops Stortford area.
Contact Us
Please feel free to contact us about our services or with any other questions you may have.