Services Brook Care provides

An example of the basic services offered by the agency may include:

Personal Care Practical Care
Dressing/Undressing Light Housework
Washing/Bathing Shopping
Feeding Collection of Pension
Continence Care Ironing
Catheter Care Preparation of light meals
Colostomy Care Assist with eye/ear drops

Brook Care staff will not undertake anything that is considered to be of a specialist nature for example:*

Changing sterile dressings Nail Cutting (finger or toe)

Bowel evacuations

Ear syringing
Bladder washouts Lifting from the floor unaided
Injections

Tracheotomy care

* Brook Care Domiciliary Care Agency does not provide nursing care but may be required from time to time to undertake tasks which may be considered specialist. These tasks may be undertaken following appropriate risk assessments and pre-agreed undertakings with specific training if required. The care workers will be trained in the procedure before undertaking the tasks with a trainer with a relevant qualification e.g. occupational therapist, speech therapist or nurse.