Help Around The Home: JAY Service

Do you, or someone you know, need a hand to live well at home?

Our Just About You (JAY) service could be perfect for you.

Age UK Isle of Wight's 'Just About You' service offers friendly & trustworthy support workers can help you to maintain independence and live well at home. 

They can help with a range of tasks including:

• General housework, cleaning & hoovering.
• Meal preparation.
• Laundry & ironing.
• Shopping - escorted or on your behalf.
• Outings & transport.
• General administration.
• Daily Respite Service
• All of our support workers are personally chosen, trained and DBS checked to provide you full peace of mind.

The Just About You service:

• Is flexible. You choose how you use your support worker's time each week
• Can give you any number of hours you need daily, weekly or monthly.
• Enables you to build a relationship with your support worker.
• Is good for you and us, we offer great value rates and you'll be supporting a local charity.

Any profits made from our Just About You Service, go directly back into the Charity to enable us to provide other core services, support & companionship.

Our prices:

• The rate for domestic services is £22.00 per hour on weekdays and £26.00 on Bank Holidays.
• The minimum chargeable period is 1 hour, thereafter time is charged in 15 minute blocks.
• Mileage incurred as part of the assignment, i.e. for shopping, is charged at 45p per mile.
• We try to avoid parking charges, but where unavoidable these will be charged at cost.
• Clients are invoiced monthly in arrears, with payments to be made via direct debit.
• In the event of cancellation within a 24-hour window of you scheduled visit, there will be a 100% late cancellation fee. Free cancellation can be made anywhen up to 24-hours before.
• There is a one off Assessment Fee of £22.00