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Specialist care and support in Bristol.

Care across Bristol

Specialist care and support in Bristol.

Care Horizons has supported adults across Bristol and the surrounding area since 2004. We are not a national agency with a Bristol branch — Bristol is our home. From our base just north of the city we provide specialist home support and supported living for adults whose needs have outgrown standard care: mental health, autism, learning disabilities and behavioural distress, from two hours a day to twenty-four-hour support.

Local, and directly delivered

Bristol is where we actually work

Care Horizons is a CQC-registered provider based at Yate, on Bristol’s northern edge, serving families across Bristol and South Gloucestershire. The people who support your relative are our own staff — not agency workers booked in to fill a gap. Many have been with us for years, and some of the people we support have been with us for many years.

Because we are local and independently led, you reach senior people who know the work. Our Service Manager Joe Sparrow and Deputy Manager Jessica White take enquiries; our Managing Director, Vierka Hiscock, oversees every case, signs every contract and reads every safeguarding referral.

What we support in Bristol

Complex support, delivered at home

Some situations need more than a standard visiting service. These are the areas we specialise in — explore whichever fits the person you are worried about.

Mental health support · Autism · Learning disabilities · Behavioural distress · Supported & independent living · 24-hour & intensive support · Hospital discharge & recovery

From two hours a day to round-the-clock — tailored to the person, not a package.

Why families in Bristol choose us

Stability, not a rota

Most agencies organise around the rota. We organised ourselves around the person.

The same two or three support workers, kept in place. No agency staff filling gaps. CQC rated Good, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 since 2018 and independently re-audited every year, and rated 9.6/10 by families on homecare.co.uk. We don’t take every case — and when we do, we stay.

What happens when you contact us

The first step is a conversation

There is no cost and no obligation in talking to us.

01

You reach a real person

Joe Sparrow or Jessica White take the call — both have been with us for years. No call centre, no script.

02

We listen, then we are honest

We tell you plainly whether we are the right fit for the person in Bristol you are worried about — and if we are not, we say so.

03

We meet, and plan

If it is right, we visit, then match a small, consistent team around the person and commit for the long term.

Call 0117 405 4320 or email [email protected] — we will come back to you within one working day.

Where we travel to

We work into Bristol from our office in Yate, just north of the city.

Most of our work is in and around Horfield, Bishopston, Lockleaze, Southmead, Henleaze, Westbury-on-Trym, Fishponds and Downend. Further out — Redland, Clifton, St George, Henbury and Brentry — depends on the shape of the package: a live-in arrangement or a block of longer visits works at a distance where a short call twice a day does not.

We would rather say that plainly than claim to cover everywhere and then let someone down. If you are not sure whether where you live works, ring the office on 0117 405 4320 and ask — it takes a minute and the answer is free.

Questions families ask

The things people ring up wanting to know.

Is there a minimum visit? Two hours. See above for why.

Will it be the same people each time? That is the whole point of how we are organised. A small, consistent team around each person, and no agency workers — we do not book strangers in to fill a gap.

Do you support older people, or only adults with complex needs? Both. Care at home for an older person covers personal care, meals, company and keeping the day recognisable; specialist adult support covers autism, learning disabilities, mental health and behavioural distress.

Do you work with children? With young people aged 8 to 18, we provide practical and social support — getting out, taking part, building confidence, and a few hours in the week that belong to the rest of the family. This is not personal care and it is not a regulated service. More on support for young people.

Are you registered and inspected? Yes. Care Horizons is registered with the Care Quality Commission and our regulated personal-care service is rated Good overall, last rated 13 June 2023. Our governance and quality.

Who will I speak to? A person, not a call centre. Our Service Manager Joe Sparrow or Deputy Manager Jessica White take enquiries, and our Managing Director Vierka Hiscock oversees every case. We come back to you within one working day.

What if you are not the right service? We will say so. We do not take every case, and telling you early is more use to you than taking the work and managing it badly.

What it costs

You will have a written figure before you commit to anything.

We don’t publish an hourly rate card for visiting support, because the cost depends on how much support is needed, at what times, and how many people it takes to deliver it safely. What we will do is tell you the figure in writing after the assessment, before anything starts. No estimate that quietly grows.

Three things are worth knowing before you ring:

Visits start at two hours. Not because we want to sell more hours, but because a half-hour call is not enough time to do anything properly, and the fifteen-minute visit is most of what is wrong with home care.

Live-in care starts at £1,675 a week, with one worker living in the home on a two-to-three-week rotation. That is arranged privately and is not limited to the areas we visit — more on live-in care.

If the council or the NHS is funding the support, we work alongside local authority commissioners, case managers and hospital teams — how we work with professionals. If you are paying privately, this explains what that involves, and this covers paying for care at home.

Tell us what’s happening.

Confidential, unhurried, and it commits you to nothing.

0117 405 4320

Or leave your details and we’ll call you back within one working day.

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Or call 0117 405 4320 · email [email protected]