Verified caregivers in Portland
Portland is the hardest parish in Jamaica to staff, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. It is beautiful, it is remote, the rain is serious and the roads reflect it. Families here are usually arranging care for a parent in a house the family has held for generations and will not be leaving.
The standard, in every parish
Every caregiver placed in Portland is verified before the family meets her: ID checked in person, current JCF police certificate, two references telephoned by our team, interview, and a signed declaration.
Elder and patient-care files are also reviewed by our Registered Nurse before a caregiver is presented. CareLink places caregivers; we do not deliver nursing or medical services ourselves.
How verification works, step by stepArranging care in Portland from abroad
- You interview her yourself on WhatsApp video, after reading her written profile. Nothing is confirmed until you are comfortable.
- A local family member or neighbour can meet her first if you would like one to. It is not a requirement.
- Under Diaspora Care we check in every week with your relative and her caregiver, and send you a short written update.
- Overseas clients pay in US dollars by card or PayPal. The Jamaican dollar figure stays the fee of record.
What families in Portland usually ask for
Live-in elder care is the realistic arrangement in most of the parish, and we say so early. Outside Port Antonio, a live-out caregiver depends on roads and transport that cannot be relied on through the wet months, and placements built on that assumption come apart.
Port Antonio itself supports live-out work, and the requests there are closer to the national average: a daily helper who keeps the house and cooks, sometimes with childcare attached.
Buff Bay, Boston and Hope Bay enquiries are nearly all diaspora-arranged, and the thing families most want is not the care itself but knowing what is happening in a place they cannot get to quickly. That is what the weekly check-in is for.
If you are here in Portland
The fee is one-time and is paid before the search begins. Your caregiver’s wage is separate, agreed between you and her, and paid directly to her.
J$25,000
Full-time or live-in placement
J$15,000
Recurring part-time placement
Managed Care, if you want us to stay involved after she starts: J$8,500 a month for Essential, J$14,500 for Complete, and J$19,500 for Diaspora Care. Month to month.
30-Day Replacement Guarantee. If she resigns or is not the right fit within thirty days of her first working day, we search again and run the full four checks on her replacement at no additional fee.
45-day search commitment. If we have not presented a suitable verified candidate you approve within 45 days of payment, you may continue the search at no further cost or take a full refund of the fee.
Tell us what you need in Portland
Six questions, under a minute. We open WhatsApp with your answers already written out, so the first message you send is the useful one.
Start with Portland selectedQuestions from Portland families
- Can you actually place someone in Portland?
- Yes, and we match within the parish and its borders rather than sending someone from Kingston, because a two-hour commute over those roads is a placement with a short life. The same four checks apply to every candidate regardless of how rural the role is.
- Does the rainy season affect a live-out arrangement here?
- Materially, and it is worth planning for rather than discovering. Where a role depends on a road that floods, we will recommend live-in or a schedule that can absorb a missed day, and we will say which at the start rather than after the first week she cannot get in.
- Nobody in our family is in Jamaica. Who does the caregiver answer to?
- You, and CareLink stays the point of contact on the ground. Changes to her hours, duties or pay go through us and are added to her written brief, so there is one record. On Diaspora Care we also call every week and send you a written update.
Nearby parishes
Families often ask about the parish next door, particularly where a caregiver lives on one side of a border and works on the other.
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