Domiciliary care cleaning keeps a home-care agency's own premises — offices, training rooms, PPE and clinical stores — clean, infection-controlled and inspection-ready. Optus Glean UK cleans domiciliary-care providers' premises to CQC Regulations 12 and 15, aligned to the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2025, using Enhanced-DBS-checked, PAYE-employed staff.
What domiciliary care cleaning covers
A domiciliary-care agency delivers care in clients' homes, but it also runs its own premises — a registered office, care-coordination and on-call spaces, training and induction rooms, and stores for PPE, equipment and any clinical supplies. These are the premises CQC assesses, and the ones a cleaning contract keeps to standard. We clean them to a documented specification, giving particular attention to touchpoints, washrooms, training rooms and any storage handling PPE or clinical items.
CQC Regulations 12 and 15 for a care agency
A CQC-registered domiciliary-care provider is held to Regulation 15 (premises and equipment must be clean, suitable and maintained) and Regulation 12 (assess, prevent, detect and control the spread of infection, including healthcare-associated infections). Regulation 12 is prosecutable where a failure exposes a person to significant risk of harm. We supply the cleaning schedules, colour-coding records, COSHH assessments and monitoring results that evidence both regulations for the agency's own premises, drawing on our healthcare cleaning specification.
Aligned to the NHS 2025 standard
We align cleaning to the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2025, assigning each area — from clinical and PPE stores through to general office space — the appropriate Functional Risk category so cleaning and monitoring frequencies match the risk, and auditing against target as a one-to-five-star rating. It gives the provider recognised, documented evidence for its own IPC governance and CQC inspection. See the NHS 2025 standards guide.
Colour-coding and infection control
We use the BICSc four-colour system — red for sanitary areas, blue for general low-risk areas, green for kitchens, yellow for clinical and infection-risk areas such as PPE and clinical stores — to prevent cross-contamination, with COSHH assessments for every product and documented method statements per area type.
Enhanced-DBS, directly-employed teams
Cleaning in a care-provider's premises is a vetted role, so operatives hold Enhanced DBS checks (with barred-list checks where required), or Disclosure Scotland (PVG) and AccessNI equivalents. Every cleaner is PAYE-employed on guaranteed hours and trained to our documented infection-prevention standard before their first shift, with named cover so cleaning is delivered reliably.