1.Does your authority directly employ support workers/carers who deliver residential, supported living, or homecare services to service users with a learning disability, enduring mental health issue, or autistic spectrum disorder?
Yes
2. If yes to Q1, please confirm the basic hourly rate of pay you offer to new staff in those roles?
Grade C – hourly pay of between £8.36 and £9.21 depending on experience
3. If yes to Q1, please confirm the basic hourly rate of pay you offer to staff who have passed their care certificate and completed probationary reviews?
Grade C – hourly pay of between £8.36 and £9.21 depending on experience
4. If yes to Q1, please confirm the average hourly rate of pay that you pay to staff within the job roles outlined in Q1?
The average basic hourly rate was £9.18 per hour (November 2017?
5. What is the minimum rate you commission providers for a sleep night (9hrs) in supported living?
Devon County Council does not have specific contracts or prices for just the sleep night components in Supported Living. Judgements are made based on the fairness of pricing on a division of the total amount of money being paid to a provider, by the total number of hours of care and support that they are being asked to deliver. That figure is then benchmarked in different ways to inform negotiations with providers.
6. What is the maximum rate you commission providers for a sleep night (9hrs) in supported living?
Devon County Council does not have specific contracts or prices for just the sleep night components in Supported Living. Judgements are made based on the fairness of pricing on a division of the total amount of money being paid to a provider, by the total number of hours of care and support that they are being asked to deliver. That figure is then benchmarked in different ways to inform negotiations with providers.
7. What is the average hourly rate you pay directly to employed staff with in your organisation (LA, County Council, CCG) for sleep night duties?
If care staff member is working as waking night hours it would be based on £9.18 plus a third enhancement for 5 nights of the week, and a half enhancement for 1 night and double time for one night, assumes that the same number of staff at grade C work on each night. The approximate averaged hourly rate would be £13.32
If the care staff member is undertaking a sleep in function the night sleep in rate is £34.68 per night
8. For providers of whom your organisation (LA, County Council, CCG) commission to deliver supported living, what is the average hourly rate they pay their support workers/carers?
Having made the determination described in the response to Question 5 we do not and cannot attempt to then determine how much of that money is passed on by the provider to their employees. We do not hold information relating to the average hourly rate providers pay their support workers/carers.