Foster Hill Road – 7 spaces
Ampthill Road – 10 spaces
Grafton Road – 5 spaces
Newnham Avenue – 5 spaces
There is a distinct lack of quality, stable, safe and semi independent accommodation for people with serious and enduring mental health problems. This represents a gap in the pathway to full independence and results in people remaining in 24 hour residential care longer than they need to.
Our service acts as:
Although all admissions are based on a pre-admission assessment, including a risk assessment, a typical resident profile is as follows:
We have partnered with a local non-profit organisation who provide stable and quality accommodation for residents. These buildings are Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) and each tenant has fully or partially self-contained unit retained under an Licence Agreement.
The standards for all of our accommodation comply with guidelines detailed in the document “Standards in the Private Rented Sector” (Bedford Borough Council 2008).
Although all admissions are based on a pre-admission assessment, including a risk assessment, a typical resident profile is as follows:
Our model is based on our staff delivering a supportive package which is based on each individual resident’s needs and incorporates specific interventions. Accordingly, the hours making up each package vary.
Additionally, there is a 24 hour on-call service contactable by a free-phone number from the house. Throughout the night there are Night Wardens on duty whose responsibility it is to ensure the residents, the house and all others are kept safe and secure during the nigh time hours.
The social care component of our supportive framework is overseen by our CQC registered, domiciliary care service “Francis House Homecare”. In almost all circumstances support delivered in our supported accommodation service will not involve personal care but may do at times. Our interventions include:
The non-profit organisation takes the lead in delivering housing-related support. This will be agreed with the individual service user and will be delivered by a Support Worker. Although the exact scope of housing related support delivered will be agreed with the individual resident a summary of such support will include:
Referrals to this service are made via the usual routes of local CMHTs and other teams in secondary mental health and learning disability services (etc) including the use of our simple referral form to be found on this website
Referrals to this service are made via our usual routes including the use of our simple referral form to be found on this website