Unique Service Provider of Specialist Nursing and Homecare Services to the Private & Public Sectors

About Us

KARE PLUS is an established supplier of high quality recruitment solutions to the healthcare industry.  Nursing activities are regulated by the NMC. Domiciliary care is regulated and approved as a service provider by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in accordance with the Care Act 2014. We respond to the individual needs of our customer’s and service users on a 24 hour basis, 365 days a year.

Our customer and service user groups are diverse, ranging from individuals requiring care within the privacy of their own homes on a short and long-term basis. This can be working alongside local government organisations or within the private sector.

Staffing Solutions

Kare Plus provides staffing solutions to the NHS in addition to some of the largest healthcare organisations in the UK, in both the private and public sector.  Our teams of highly skilled professionals deliver recruitment and accredited in-house training ensuring we are able to offer a full range of services to our clients. Our workforce ranges from Band 2 to 9 including the provision of critical and non-critical staff.

Our aim is to deliver the highest possible standard of care and first class customer service.

In all areas of the business our specialist teams are highly skilled; their expertise, professionalism and reliability guarantees we deliver exceptional service, first time, every time.  We are passionate about the quality of care we provide and our ethos is echoed by our staff.  Our bespoke management, compliance and rostering system combined with an extremely rigorous recruitment and selection process guarantees we only employ the very best.  Every applicant who wishes to join Kare Plus must have a wealth of experience and undergo a series of checks including; DBS, proof of identity, written references, a complete employment history, to name a few. All successful applicants undergo a meticulous induction programme to ensure that they can meet and exceed the expectations of the organisations in which they are to be placed.

Domiciliary Home Care

Our Homecare Teams aim to deliver the highest possible standard of care, ensuring independence and quality of life at all times. All of our care packages are tailor made as we believe care should be as individual as the people who receive it.  Our aim is to deliver the highest possible standard of care, ensuring the independence and quality of life at all times. Any change can trigger the need for care: You may have had a fall, a condition you have may have worsened, or existing care arrangements may have simply been disrupted. Whether a customer wants a helping hand or requires round-the-clock specialist nursing care, Kare Plus can offer affordable solutions.

We understand how difficult admitting that you need assistance or coping with any changes can be, and we do our best to be there for you, helping to fill the gap with trained, skilled and compassionate carers and nurses sent directly to your own home with as little disruption to your existing routines as possible.

All of our care packages are tailor made as we believe that care should be as individual as the people who receive it.  We can offer peace of mind as our services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year.

Supported Living

A number of our offices deliver Supported Living. Our Supported Living Teams believe in a person centred approach to care and the customer is involved at every stage of the decision making process. We promote independence and choice and encourage our supported living customers to realise personal aspirations and live life as fully as possible.

Our mission….

“To deliver outstanding nursing, care and support to local communities”

The Kare Plus Philosophy…

We believe that everyone should be empowered to live their lives as they desire; this may include the right to remain living in your own home or the right to live your life in a fulfilling way that you choose.  Whatever a service users needs are, we believe that by providing the right care and assistance can enable people to do so in a comfortable, safe and secure way.

 

We highly value our care and support workers, without whom there would be no Kare Plus.

 

We believe in the strength of our policies and procedures and the importance of adhering to them at all times.

 

We believe in consistently maintaining fair and competitive fee levels.

 

We believe in complete honesty and integrity in everything we set out to accomplish.

 

We believe that Kare Plus gains additional strength from overcoming obstacles.

 

We believe that our mission statement can only be realised by sharing our beliefs and working together as a team

Kare Plus; Healthy profits from excellent care

“The NHS is bursting at the seams and the new legislation recognises that, relinquishing responsibility and releasing funds to enable patients to make their own decision about care”

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the new Care Act 2014 are virtually impenetrable but the main thrust is: primary care trusts and strategic health authorities have been disbanded. In their place, clinical commissioning groups – also known as GP consortia – now control about £60bn of the NHS budget and commission local services.

Commissioning takes place through competitive tendering. NHS contracts are now open to the voluntary and private sectors. Already, £250m of NHS services have been forced open, with 105 private firms granted contracts. This year, a further £750m of services will be tendered. The NHS annual budget is more than £100bn.

The Growth Opportunities

The healthcare market is always in the news and is a topic close to everyone’s heart. This makes this a very sensitive market to be part of. We all hear the horror stories of neglect, medical errors, poor standards of care and the demise of some care homes.

Our primary role is to provide nurses and carers to the NHS, care home, nursing homes and domiciliary service users. We provide all levels of care from basic domiciliary to specialist nursing. We have to set and maintain high standards and provide support to our clients and service users.

The Kare Plus vision

 

Become one of the market leaders in the provision of healthcare services

Full national coverage by 2017

Be a ‘middleman’ that orchestrates personalised healthcare support from a community perspective

A brand that is renowned for its quality & innovation and is trusted within the local community and on a national level

To continue supporting the public, government funded sector

To further the market share of the growing private healthcare industry

The Industry…

The UK’s population is growing in size and becoming increasingly older, with the number of over 65s climbing steadily – a trend set to continue, according to the ONS (Office of National Statistics), which projects 3.5 million people over 85 by 2035, with over 65s making up a staggering 23% of the total population.

ONS (Office of National Statistics)

Key Note forecasts that the total UK private healthcare market will reach £35.9bn by 2015, growing at an average annual rate of 3.4%. The long-term care market is expected to remain the largest private healthcare sector and is forecast to reach a value of £16.2bn in 2015

The market is changing continually!

And in a number of ways:

The Personalisation agenda means organisations are rethinking the services they offer and how these are delivered.

The driving down of fees from local authorities is forcing providers to reduce their reliance on block contracts and look for new funding streams.

The implications…
Whilst providers may well have a reputation amongst a small number of people, most have no recognisable brand and are inexperienced in marketing or managing the sales process.

Key Market Influences

 

Government Directives

CQC Policy

Cuts in the NHS Clinical commissioning groups;

CCG’s (previously PCT’s) & GP’s Funding / Financing

Increase in specialist care

Increase in population living longer

Health care provision

‘Old’ versus ‘New’

The market is changing from the “old world” of the past to the “new world” of the future. It also highlights why sales and marketing skills are set to become an intrinsic part of running any health or social care organisation.

A Quality Service

The Kare Plus business and franchise has been carefully developed and always with the emphasis on compliance and quality.  Considerable investment has been made in training, marketing and the IT system to ensure the highest level of quality. When a franchisee can offer consistency, reliability and high quality, then the price we put before a service user becomes less of an issue:

 

The chance to build a virtually recession proof business in a high growth, sustainable sector.

Massive changes within the Health Service and an ageing population are creating huge market potential

As one of the few care franchisors licensed to supply to the NHS, fully accredited by the Care Quality Commission, Kare Plus is perfectly placed to help you achieve healthy profits from delivering valuable services to your local community.

“A report in 2010 by Laing & Buisson found that franchise owners were achieving a median operating level which was up to four times higher than non franchised competitors. No wonder franchise units are gaining market share both from PLCs and independent operators.”

A one stop solution…

The Kare Plus business model is designed to provide the service user with a one-stop-shop provision. Why look at different providers if there is one reliable company who can provide all your requirements. This approach consolidates accounts and widens the scope for building working relationships.

Our Competitors

The care marketplace is highly fragmented, with around 5,800 service providers throughout the UK. Outside of the franchising industry, these tend to be large PLC companies that have expertise and resources but lack the necessary local infrastructure to deliver consistent, high quality service, or at the other end of the scale, small time businesses struggling to recruit staff and stay abreast of changing compliance regulations.

Our Competitive Edge

 

Origins are in nursing

Learned from mistakes &  redeveloped

Branded Image

Array of services; ‘one-stop-shop’ (See next side)

Bespoke IT system

Pro-active stance in the ever changing market

Preferred Suppliers

NHS Experience

Increasing tenders for council contracts

Experienced professional business & clinical based support