AI receptionist for home care agencies in Reading
A Reading home care agency lets roughly 27 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 0118 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 0118 number
- Answers on the first ring
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
What the phone looks like for a Reading home care agency
Reading and the wider Berkshire has a population of around 350,000, built on technology, professional services and some of the most expensive property outside London. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a home care agency working across Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A hospital discharge needs care arranged in days, so the agency that answers gets a package worth thousands a year.
Callwise answers on your own 0118 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.
When Reading calls go unanswered
- out of hours, when families are together to talk
- while coordinators are managing rotas
- weekends, when hospital discharges happen
What Reading callers want
- care at home for a parent
- hourly rates and what a visit includes
- starting care urgently after a hospital discharge
What a Reading home care agency loses to the phone
£200,600
a month, at one site
Around 27 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £5,200 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Reading home care agencies
Takes enquiries with the care needs and the address
Explains rates and visit lengths
Books assessments
Handles urgent discharge enquiries immediately
Reading home care agencies ask us
Do we keep our 0118 number?
Yes. Your existing 0118 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how Reading customers reach you changes.
Do you work with home care agencies outside Reading?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Reading and everywhere across Berkshire is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.
Are our enquiries really out of hours?
Most of them. Families discuss care in the evening and after a weekend hospital visit, which is exactly when coordinators are off.
Can it handle safeguarding concerns?
Anything on your safeguarding list stops the call flow and reaches your on call manager immediately.
Will it take care worker applications?
Yes, and recruitment calls are worth catching too, because carers apply to whoever answers first.
Home care agencies elsewhere
Other Reading businesses we answer for
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Reading customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.