Independent Living (Chorley, Leyland & West Lancashire) provides you or your loved ones with bespoke high quality care. The company provides a consistent group of carers, arriving on time and staying the full hour, flexible in their tasks as your needs change.
Independent Living has a reputation for working closely with customers and their families; carers and office support will feedback immediately with concerns about a customer’s well-being. Carers work...
Care Provided by Independent Living (Chorley and Leyland)
Types of Home Care
- Visiting Care
- Overnight Care (Waking)
- Overnight Care (Sleeping)
Minimum Visit Duration (Visiting Care)
- 30 minutes
Contract Durations
- Ongoing / Long Term
- Respite / Short Term
Age Ranges
- Older Person Care (65+)
- Younger Adult Care (18-65)
Personal Care Services
- Washing & Dressing
- Toileting Assistance
- Medication Assistance (Oral)
- Companionship
- Continence Care
- Feeding & Drinking Assistance
Household Services
- Cleaning Service
- Food Preparation & Serving
- Laundry Service
- Shopping Service / Errands
- Transportation Service
Other Care Provided
- Dementia
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Cancer Care
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- Mental Health Condition
- Physical Disability
- Visual / Hearing Impairment
- Hospital Discharge
Funding & Fees
Daily Charges per Person
- Hourly Visiting Care Fees: from £34.50
Independent Living travels in our own time, this means for example we spend a full hour with the client and do not take away 20 minutes for travel.
Contact Independent Living (Chorley and Leyland) to get a personalised quote:
Funding Types Accepted
- Private Funding (Self-funded)
- Direct Payments (from Local Authority/NHS)
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Good to Know
Owner
- Happy Homecare UK Ltd
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Amanda Barlow (Registered Manager)
Independent Living (Chorley and Leyland) Reviews (25)
Independent Living (Chorley and Leyland) has a Review Score of 9.6 (9.552) out of 10, based on 9 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Independent Living (Chorley and Leyland) has 25 reviews.
During covid-19, the carers have been fantastic, never missing one visit and helping with washing and cleaning pores etc. Independent Living has been in contact to discuss Mums care, and the few extra visits we have asked for have been facilitated easily.
I want to thank the customer's son for their feedback, we appreciate people who take the time to complete a review of our services and support our business.
I am very pleased overall with everything you do.
Here at Independent Living, we welcome feedback from both our customers or their next of kin. Customers taking the time to submit a review is always greatly appreciated. Thank you for your kind words.
I am writing this in regards to my mother, who lives with me and has vascular dementia. This provision of care has turned her life around, and ours. It has enabled us to keep Mum longer when the prognosis looked so bleak. I can only thank the staff for all their help, and at any time I can only urge members of the public to use this service and consider this service as an alternative to putting an elderly relative in a residential home setting!
We are pleased that the service meets the needs of our customers, and we also want to thank their next of kin for the time and effort taken to write this review.
They cared for my well-being and health, washing and bending and changing clothes. Also later getting me walking again outside on little trips, giving me the confidence to get back to normal living.
They did anything willingly and also with a good laugh and smile.
So kind I felt I had a new family to care for me. As I am now on my own this is very important.
I can't praise them enough, they bring sunshine every day to me.
My Mum turned 90 this month and continues to be able to live happily in her home because of her care from Right at Home. She enjoys her daily visits from Staff who keep an eye on her health and take her shopping or to the Garden Centre when she is well and look after her if she is feeling under the weather. Mum enjoys the company of many of her carers and takes a lively interest in them, keeping her in touch with the modern world. We both feel that without the hour a day's support from Right at Home, Mum would have found it difficult to continue to live on her own. They have greatly enhanced her quality of life and she recommends them to all her friends. We are looking forward to celebrating her 100th birthday, hopefully still living in her home with help from Right at Home
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 16 November 2019- Caring Good
- Effective Good
- Responsive Good
- Safe Requires improvement
- Well-led Good
Inspection ratings
We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:
- Outstanding - The service is performing exceptionally well.
- Good - The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
- Requires Improvement - The service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
- Inadequate - The service is performing badly and we've taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
- Not rated - we have not yet rated this area of the service, this is normally because the assessments we have carried out have been focused on other key questions.
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Meet the Team (5)
Amanda started working for Independent Living in 2016 as our Care Coordinator but was quickly promoted to the position of Registered Manager. Amanda has a 30+ year track record in care and has attained an NVQ Level 5 in Social Care whilst working for us. She is very popular amongst our customers and carries out some of our care calls herself. Amanda has a wealth of technical knowledge on issues such as transferring clients and improving their routines and nutrition.
Lilian is our Care Manager and runs the office alongside Amanda our Registered Manager. Amanda and Lilian form a strong team, perhaps because Amanda is Lilian's daughter!
Lilian often carries out assessments for new clients, schedules care calls, and deals with the day-to-day issues constantly coming into the business.
Prior to joining Independent Living Lilian worked for another local care company and has around 20 years of experience in home care. Prior to this, Lilian had a long career with British Rail.
Mark founded Independent Living in 2011 after being made redundant from the Civil Service.
He carries out a range of care tasks, most notably he provides customers with transport to appointments at local hospitals, clinics, opticians, dentists etc. Mark also has clients whom he provides respite companionship for whilst their partner takes time out, and he also helps with personal care for those who prefer a male carer.
The financial and marketing side of the business is also run by Mark.
As Independent Living has grown the company has inevitably had ever more financial transactions. Petra records all the incoming and outgoing payments ensuring that Mark is aware of each customer's accounts. Petra makes financial claims to the Lancashire Council for our publicly funded customers and makes sure the business is able to provide its accurate annual returns to Companies House.
Ann helps the office team meet our regulatory requirements. She audits all our communication sheets to identify any potential areas of concern.
A key aspect of Ann's role is to audit our Staff and Client files and highlight where paperwork needs updating. This ensures we are compliant with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - our regulator.
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