Private carers in Aberdeenshire

Private carers on PrimeCarers charge from £18 to £25 an hour for daytime visits, typically £20, with our fee included. Companionship-only visits start from about £15. Overnight care is priced per night, from £130 for a sleeping night, and live-in care is typically £1,120 a week. Each carer sets their own rate. The cost of home care in Aberdeenshire goes through all of it.

Usually, and by a good margin. Agencies in Aberdeenshire typically charge £28 to £35 an hour, and the carer sees roughly half of that. A private carer through PrimeCarers typically charges £20 an hour, with our fee included, and keeps most of it. For a ten-hour week that is about £200 against £280 or more. Agency or private carer sets out what you give up and gain with each.

Yes. Before a carer appears on PrimeCarers they complete identity, right-to-work and interview checks, plus an accepted criminal-record check: a standalone Enhanced DBS within 2 years, DBS Update Service, Scottish PVG or Access NI. Renewal and rechecks depend on the route. Their skills, qualifications and training are for you to check with them, and every profile shows their experience and reviews so you can. How we vet carers sets out each step.

Not through PrimeCarers. Carers here are self-employed, so there is no PAYE, no pension duty and no sick or holiday pay to arrange. You book the visits you want and pay for the care you had, and the contract between you and the carer is our standard one. Hiring somebody yourself off-platform can make you an employer, with everything that follows; Can I employ a private carer? and the legal and financial guide explain the difference.

Personal care such as washing, dressing and continence; medication prompts; cooking, shopping, laundry and keeping the house straight; getting to appointments and out and about; company; and nights, either sleeping or waking. Clinical tasks such as injections, catheters and PEG feeding need a carer trained in them, and hoisting needs the right equipment and training. What carers are not allowed to do covers the boundaries.

Yes, because you choose the carer and book them directly, rather than an agency sending whoever is on the rota. Most families settle on one carer for the regular visits and a second from the same search for holidays and sickness, so that somebody your relative already knows can step in. The same carer every visit explains how families arrange that.

You can see who is available today and message them straight away. Most families are talking to two or three carers within a day or two, and regular visits often start within the week. If you need someone in the next day or two, emergency care explains what to do.

The shortest visit on PrimeCarers is an hour, or 30 minutes with a carer who offers shorter visits at their own half-hour rate, and a carer can do longer shifts at a lower hourly rate, typically £18 an hour for six hours or more. PrimeCarers charges nothing to stop or change care. The notice you give the carer is in the contract: 48 hours for visits, and a visit you cancel inside that is payable unless the reason is an unplanned hospital stay, illness, or something else you and the carer agree. Bank holidays are charged at one and a half times the carer's rate and Christmas Day at double.

Yes, though the further from a town, the fewer carers will be within a sensible drive, so the search shows travel time as well as rate. Filter for carers with a car. Mileage is only chargeable if you agree it in advance and in writing; 55p a mile is the usual figure when a carer drives your relative in their own car. For anyone needing several visits a day in a remote spot, live-in care in Aberdeenshire is often the simpler answer.

Past about 35 hours a week, which is three visits a day plus the weekly jobs, a live-in carer costs about the same and is there for the hours in between. 14 live-in carers are based across the wider region around Aberdeenshire, typically £1,043 a week. When live-in care becomes cheaper than visits works through the crossover, and live-in care in Aberdeenshire shows who could come.

In Scotland, council-arranged personal care is free if your care needs assessment says you need it, regardless of age, income or savings. Other help, such as shopping or housework, can be charged for. Agree the assessment and support plan with the council before arranging privately funded care. In Scotland, people who have reached State Pension age and have qualifying care needs can apply for Pension Age Disability Payment. Check the eligibility rules and how an existing Attendance Allowance award transfers. Council-assessed personal care and NHS nursing care at home have their own funding arrangements. They do not automatically pay for an entire privately arranged live-in package. Pension Age Disability Payment and the funding guide explain the options and eligibility.

No. PrimeCarers is an introductory service. The carers are self-employed and set their own rates; you choose the carer, and the contract is between you and them. We do the checks before a carer appears, including an accepted criminal-record check with route-specific renewal or rechecks, set up the contract, handle the invoicing and payment, and arrange insurance for platform visits, within the policy’s terms (no clinical procedures). Because there is no office rota to pay for, the carer keeps most of what you pay. Private carers versus agency carers goes through the differences.