University support
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If you or someone you know are a looking at furthering your academic career by attending a university within England and Wales with a Live in Carer, the video below explains just how simple it is and how Helping Hands is able to assist you in achieving your goals.
Helping Hands Senior Nurse Assessor, Melanie Dawson explains the simple step by step process and the role that she plays in setting up the package of care
The way that Live in Care works when you go to university is that it allows you to live an independent lifestyle with as much choice that can be offered within the university environment. Our Personal Assistant will be with you in your rooms providing your personal care, support and companionship. They will facilitate you going to your lectures, ensuring that you have any care during the day that your learning support assistant cannot provide and they will be on hand to provide companionship in the evenings. They will take you out to where you want to go socially and ensure that you have the support to lead as full a university life as you wish.
The Personal Assistant will help to support you at university alongside your learning needs support. They can ensure that you are in the right place at the right time and that you have the facilities and the quiet that you need to continue your studies when you are back in your rooms. They will ensure that your care fits around your routine so that you do not miss any lectures and any other exciting things that may happen.
Most university campuses have House Keeping Assistants that ensure that your accommodation works well and they will provide you with all of the attributes to live comfortably in your home. University becomes yours and your Personal Assistants home and their accommodation will be close to your room so that they are within calling distance at any time day or night.
Part of the ongoing service from Helping Hands is that you will be allocated a Care manager who is responsible for the day to day running of your care package. We try to ensure continuity by providing one Personal Assistant who will work with you through-out your academic year, taking their holidays when you take your holidays to ensure that you don’t have changes and that you have the same person with you from the beginning to the end of the academic year.
Helping Hands has been very successful in providing carers that stay with the student for not only the academic year but for the full three years of their degrees and onwards into their working lives.
If you or someone you know are looking at attending a university with Live in Care in England or Wales, you will firstly need a referral to Helping Hands. At this point we can help you with the assessment process to look at your care and support needs and to identify the type of personal Assistant you will require.
Our role when setting up a care package is to first conduct an initial assessment and identify all the support and care needs, we will then liaise with the relevant authorities and professionals that are involved in the package to ensure that everything is in order and will run smoothly.
We will make contact with the university chosen and liaise with the relevant individuals and departments to ensure that your accommodation is correct, making sure that you will have the right rooms and facilities required and also that the university that you choose has all the right access and exit points that you will need to go about your business being a student in the easiest way possible.
We will liaise with occupational therapy staff about the provision of correct equipment and that this is selected and installed and available to use, ensuring that the system is the simplest to enable you the student to live an independent lifestyle.
