How to plan a home care rota
A step-by-step way to build a week of home care visits that works for clients and carers alike.
A free care rota template
A simple spreadsheet for planning a week of home care visits, with the columns that matter.
Covering carer sickness and holiday
How to keep every visit covered when carers are off, planned or not.
Improving continuity of care
Practical ways to give clients the same carers more often, and how to tell if it is working.
Record keeping and CQC Regulation 17
What good governance asks of your records, in plain words.
Planning double-up visits
Visits that need two carers are the hardest to fill and the riskiest to get wrong.
Planning travel time between visits
Realistic travel time is the difference between a rota that works and one that makes carers late.