The 10 Best Home Care Agencies In Leicester

Leicester is full of highly-rated home care agencies, including those providing hourly care, live-in care, and overnight care. To ease your or your loved one’s search, we’ve rounded up the best home care agencies in Leicester.

These allow you to continue living in the comfort of your own home while receiving compassionate, expert care and support from experienced care professionals. All the Leicester home care providers listed below are rated ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the two highest ratings available.

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Explore the best home care agencies in Leicester:

1. Helping Hands - Leicester
2. Prestige Nursing & Care - Leicester
3. SureCare - Leicester
4. Trinity Homecare
5. The Good Care Group - England
6. Promedica24
7. Unique Senior Care - England
8. Closer Care Services - Leicester
9. Heritage Healthcare Leicester
10. Radfield Home Care Leicester East, Groby & Oadby

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Helping Hands - Leicester

Best for: Supporting independence in care

The first option on our list of the best home care agencies in Leicester is Helping Hands - Leicester. This provider is adept at providing numerous services within the comfort of your own home. You'll be supported to remain independent and continue leading your preferred lifestyle through services like household support, mobility assistance and respectful personal care.

Helping Hands in Leicester provides hourly care and overnight care (sleeping and waking). Through their hourly care, you’ll have control over how many visits you receive a week and how long they last. Helping Hands has a minimum visit duration of just 30 minutes, so this is a highly flexible service.

Meanwhile, their overnight care ensures you or your loved one will be in safe hands throughout the night, including in the event of a medical emergency. Overnight sleeping care becomes waking care when support is needed several times in the same night.

Helping Hands provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE1 1, LE1 2, LE1 3, LE1 4, LE1 5, LE1 6, LE1 7, LE1 8, LE1 9, LE4 0, LE4 1, LE4 2, LE4 3, LE4 4, LE4 5, LE4 6, LE4 7, LE4 8, LE4 9, LE5 0, LE5 1, LE5 2, LE5 3, LE5 4, LE5 5, LE5 6, LE5 9, LE6 0, LE6 1, LE6 2, LE6 3, LE6 4, LE6 5, LE6 7, LE7 1, LE7 2, LE7 3, LE7 4, LE7 7, LE7 8, LE7 9

LE11 0, LE11 1, LE11 2, LE11 3, LE11 4, LE11 5, LE119, LE12 7, LE12 8, LE12 9

LE55 7, LE55 8, LE67 1, LE67 4, LE67 9

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Prestige Nursing & Care - Leicester

Best for: An extensive range of services

Next up, Prestige Nursing & Care in Leicester has a team of highly experienced and friendly home care professionals. They offer an extensive range of services tailored to your or your loved one’s specific care needs. Before care begins, these care needs will be clearly laid out in a care plan.

For example, if you need regular support with household chores and other errands, help with gardening, cleaning, meal preparation and cooking, looking after pets, shopping, and laundry is available.

If your loved one has more significant care needs, they’ll be looked after by a professional carer. This includes if they’re living with dementia and are exhibiting challenging behaviour. In this case, carers are trained in respectful calming methods.

Prestige Nursing & Care Leicester is rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the second highest available rating. They’re also rated ‘Good’ in four of the five main categories, including the overall quality of care given and how effective this care is.

Prestige Nursing & Care provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE1, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE5, LE6, LE7, LE8, LE9, LE65, LE67

LE1 2, LE1 3, LE1 4, LE1 5

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SureCare - Leicester

Best for: Specialist care for people living with conditions such as dementia

Since forming in 1994, SureCare in Leicester has gone from strength to strength and now provides some of the country’s highest-quality home care. They specialise in bespoke live-in care, where a carer moves in with you on a permanent or temporary basis. People often opt for live-in care when their regular carer needs a break from their caregiving duties, usually for a few weeks at a time.

SureCare Leicester provides numerous care and support services across Leicester and the surrounding areas. Each service is independently monitored and regulated by the CQC, giving you much-needed peace of mind.

Their premium home care focuses on individuality, recognising that no two people are alike. The goal is to make daily life as simple and comfortable as possible, including through dignified personal care support such as washing, dressing, and mobility support.

Specialist care services are also available, and these are delivered by skilled, experienced carers and nurses. Conditions like dementia, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, sensory impairments, and learning and physical disabilities can all be looked after through SureCare Leicester.

SureCare provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE1, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE5, LE9

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Trinity Homecare

Best for: Decades of home care experience

Trinity Homecare is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC, the highest rating available! Very few home care agencies achieve this prestigious rating, so you can feel confident about receiving a brilliant service and being treated with the utmost care and the individuality you deserve.

Hourly, live-in, and overnight care (both sleeping and waking) are available. If you’d like to be regularly visited in the comfort of your own home, their hourly care is highly flexible. This can be given on a fixed-term or ongoing basis, while the minimum visit time is just 30 minutes.

Your home care can be funded privately or through the NHS. In Leicester, you’ll pay for your own care if your savings and income are worth £23,250 or more. If you have complex and unpredictable care needs, you could also qualify for NHS continuing healthcare. In this case, the NHS will fully fund your home care.

Trinity Homecare provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

Trinity Homecare is a nationwide provider, so they have coverage across all of Leicester.

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The Good Care Group - England

Best for: ‘Outstanding’ rated home care across the board

The Good Care Group - England is also rated ‘Outstanding’ overall by the CQC. Even more impressively, they’re also rated ‘Outstanding’ in all five main categories, putting them in the UK's top 5% of care providers.

The Good Care Group achieved these fantastic ratings by focusing on trust, respect, empathy, and professionalism. Their hourly care is highly flexible, with a minimum visit time of 60 minutes, and three minimum hours per week.

Specific services such as companionship and mobility support are available within their hourly, live-in, and overnight care. Through companionship, a friendly carer will make regular visits to your home. Companionship could be as simple as bonding over a hot drink and biscuit or transport to and from social gatherings. Meanwhile, mobility support makes it easier and safer to get from one place to another in your home through methods such as hoisting, transferring, and turning.

The Good Care Group - England provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

The Good Care Group is a nationwide provider, so they have coverage across all of Leicester.

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Promedica24

Best for: Carers who go the extra mile

Each Promedica24 cawill go the extra mile for you or your loved one. Not only do they provide high-quality support, but they’re also on hand to offer friendly and warm companionship whenever required. Over time, a Promedica24 carer will become a trusted friend.

Promedica24 offers a comprehensive range of home care services. If you need extra support in your own home, services such as meal preparation and cooking, help with safely using the bathroom, cleaning, transportation, shopping, and running additional errands are all available.

Their home care is highly flexible, available on a fixed-term or ongoing basis, and requires a minimum weekly commitment of just one hour. Several specialist care services are available as well, including respectful dementia care for people living with a form of dementia such as Alzheimer’s, and nursing procedures like PEG feeding and stoma care.

Promedica24 provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

Promedica24 is a nationwide provider, so they have coverage across all of Leicester.

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Unique Senior Care - England

Best for: Nationwide live-in care

Another ‘Outstanding’ overall rated home care provider, Unique Senior Care - England provide support nationwide, including across the city of Leicester. With bespoke care plans created for each care recipient before care begins, it’s little surprise that they’re also rated ‘Outstanding’ for how quickly carers respond to changing circumstances and care needs.

Their live-in care is available throughout England, while their hourly care is available in specific parts of the country. Live-in care may be the best option if you or your loved one can no longer live safely within your own home. Here, a carer will move in with you and be on hand around the clock to provide care and support as needed.

People often opt for dignified personal care through this service, including help using the bathroom, washing and bathing, taking certain medications, and with continence. Specialist care delivered by expert carers and registered nurses is also available, such as wound dressing, PEG feeding, and intensive rehabilitation following a stroke.

Unique Senior Care - England provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

Unique Senior Care is a nationwide provider, so they have coverage across all of Leicester.

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Closer Care Services - Leicester

Best for: Dignified personal care

Based in Leicester, Closer Care Services support older adults living with conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, a sensory impairment, or a physical condition. Intensive support is also available if your loved one has experienced a stroke and now requires rehabilitation to help them recover.

Closer Care Services in Leicester also offers personal and household support services, such as help taking certain medications, dignified assistance with washing and dressing, cleaning and other housekeeping, pet support, shopping, and running any other errands.

This home care agency covers Leicester and several surrounding areas. Their carers are committed to enhancing your or your loved one’s quality of life through a compassionate and professional approach to home care. When selecting hourly care, the minimum visit duration is just 30 minutes, while the minimum number of hours per week is just one.

Closer Care Services provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE1, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE5

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Heritage Healthcare Leicester

Best for: Multi-award winning specialised home care

Heritage Healthcare Leicester is a multi-award winning healthcare specialist that provides home care across the city, both in the centre and across various neighbourhoods. Their carers strike the perfect balance between care that’s both compassionate and exceptional in quality.

Each of their services is adaptable, making them suitable for every older adult needing extra support, whether you require some help around the house, personal care, or a more specialised type of support. Procedures such as wound dressing, stoma care, PEG feeding and catheter care are all available, and registered nurses or expert carers administer these.

The three primary funding types are available: private, local authority, and NHS. Your local authority will pay for some or all of your care if your savings and income are worth less than £23,250. Whether you’ll pay is determined through a financial assessment. Any properties you own aren’t considered during a financial assessment for home care fees.

Heritage Healthcare provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE1 1, LE1 2, LE1 3, LE1 4, LE1 5, LE1 6, LE1 7

LE2 0, LE2 1, LE2 2, LE2 3, LE2 4, LE2 5, LE2 6, LE2 7, LE2 8, LE2 9, LE3 0, LE3 1

LE16 7, LE17 5, LE17 5, LE17 6, LE18 1, LE18 2, LE18 3, LE18 4, LE19 0, LE19 1, LE19 2, LE19 3, LE19 4

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Radfield Home Care Leicester East, Groby & Oadby

Best for: Tailored one-on-one support

The final entry in our roundup of the best home care agencies in Leicester is the Leicester East, Groby, and Oadby branch of Radfield Home Care. Impressively, Radfield Home Care was recognised as the ‘Most Outstanding Home Care Network’ at the 2023 Home Care Awards, so you can be sure of a fantastic service delivered by highly-qualified carers.

This branch of Radfield Home Care supports people living with various specialist medical conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, and respiratory failure. Care is also available if you’ve experienced a stroke and are in recovery.

Each care recipient has a tailored care package created for them, which are highly personalisable. Some people opt for a handful of companionship-based visits each week, while others require multiple daily visits.

If your loved one has been diagnosed with a terminal condition, they can be supported through compassionate end-of-life care, which focuses on creating a comfortable setting and alleviating and discomfort or other symptoms.

Radfield Home Care provides home care for these Leicester postcodes:

LE2 2, LE2 4, LE2 5, LE3 5, LE3 8, LE3 9, LE4 0, LE4 1, LE4 2, LE4 3, LE4 4, LE4 5, LE4 6, LE4 7, LE4 8, LE4 9, LE5 0, LE5 1, LE5 2, LE6 0, LE7 1, LE7 2, LE7 3, LE7 4, LE7 7, LE7 9

LE12 7, LE14 2

LES 4

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