Heathcotes Care

General information

Heathcotes Care offers specialist care to men and women with learning disabilities, mental illness, complex needs and associated challenging behaviour. We place great emphasis on providing supportive care in small, non-institutional homes.

We uphold our values of modern, holistic and evidenced-based care that safeguards and promotes the rights, individuality and uniqueness of every individual.

The people who use our service users come to us with behaviours that are both challenging and complex. People who use our service may experience:

•Autism
•Asperger’s syndrome
•Mental health issues
•Epilepsy
•Down’s syndrome
•Sensory impairment
•Personality disorder
•Communication difficulties

We uphold and value the individuality of each service user. We are committed to supporting individuals through a process of recovery in order that everyone can live a satisfying, hopeful and meaningful life, acknowledging the limitations of their learning disability. We achieve this by:

•Creating an environment that is conducive to and enhances the process of recovery
•Devising agreed care pathways
•Comprehensive and regular assessments
•Regularly reviewing the effectiveness of care and support through planned care review meetings with the care team
•Providing care and support that is focussed on reducing the severity and frequency of behaviours that challenge
•Providing meaningful and personalised activities and employment that maintains and enhances the life skills and interests of our service users
•Helping individuals maintain strong links with their chosen circle of support

Our strengths as a company in enhancing the process of recovery are:

•We value every individual, their history and their experiences
•We offer opportunities to discover and develop skills and resilience
•We promote and maintain optimism
•We encourage positive risk taking
•We work closely with families and carers
•We support our service users to maintain the lifestyle of their choice
•We focus on the strengths of each individual
•We think creatively about how we relate to the people using our services
•We work positively with individuals towards moving on to greater independence