Gideon Supported Housing Limited

1. About the Gideon Supported Housing Limited
This service offers 24-hour support, 1:1 and 2:1 packages of care to individuals with a learning disability and / or a mental health diagnosis through a person-cantered approach such as:
● Autistic spectrum disorder.
● Attention deficit disorder.
● Mental health issues.
● Learning Disability.
● All types of Schizophrenia-Personality Disorder.
● All types of depression and anxiety.
● Dementia
● Challenging behaviour.
● Moderate learning disabilities.
● Drug and alcohol abuse.
● Self-harming behaviours.
● Gang involvement.
● Criminal behaviour.
● Attachment disorders.
● Low level sexualised behaviour.
The aim of the service is to provide a safe and homely environment that promotes empowerment, independence and choice, whilst enhancing our service users’ daily living skills, enabling individuals to move on to a less supported setting. The age range of people who can access our service are 16-18 years and 18-65 years. Our service is available to people from all over the UK
Our floating support services (Domiciliary care support) enables us to offer further support to service users moving to their own accommodation, or who have already done so but require support in maintaining their tenancy so they can continue to live independently. This support service is available for as long as the service users require it and will remain with them even if they move to their home. We therefore offer the following support to service users via the domiciliary care support worker
● Support ranging from 2 hours – 9 hours per day depending on the service user’s needs.
● Support where needed with shopping and accessing local amenities.
● Supervision and monitoring of mental health.
● Medication administration.
● Support in setting up and maintaining a home or tenancy.
● Support in developing domestic skills/life skills and social skills.
● Support in managing finances and benefits claims.
● Support with social and leisure activities.
● Regular risk assessment.
● Advice/Advocacy and Liaison.
● Support with gaining access to other allied services.
Our Semi-Independent living provides support for young people aged 16-18 years of age with low – high level support needs. We provide a high standard of accommodation and supportive environment for residents and provide various programs for young people from support for offenders with low level offences, to coaching and mentoring behavioural issues, students leaving foster care requiring basic independent living skills. Our team provides extra support for pre-employment preparation and successful outcomes for 16 -18-year-olds ready to be fully independent and contributing positively to their immediate communities. We aim to ensure young people can develop and maintain respect, self-reliance and self-care skills and enable them to make informed, age-appropriate decisions concerning their present and future so they can achieve a successful transition into independence and adulthood.
Our Adult supported living is primarily targeted at adults at risk between the ages of 18-65 years old. The aim of the supported accommodation is to give individuals the opportunity to live as independently as possible with help from staff when needed. Our clients make their own choices and lead their lives in the way they want to, whenever possible. They all have a tenancy agreement and are given the same rights as anyone living in their own accommodation. Independence is so important and allows people to live in our service, where they feel safe in the knowledge that care or support is close at hand whenever the need help. The level of assistance is agreed in the care plan from the outset with each individual. So, no one client will be receiving the same type of support.

Aims and Objectives
• To provide support that is tailored to each service user’s individual needs.
• To empower service users to lead as independent a life as possible.
• To provide services that are anti-discriminatory.
• To provide a service that considers service user’s preferences, wishes, personal circumstances and individual abilities.
• To provide our service users with support of the highest quality within their own home environment.

How Do We Achieve These Objectives?
• By working to an individual plan of support that has been agreed with the tenant.
• By working with service users to promote and, where possible, increase their independence.
• By treating all service users with dignity and respect.
• By encouraging service users to be involved in the development of the service.
• By ensuring that trained and competent staff provides support.
• By supporting service users to access all community services available to them.

Governance and Quality Assurance
In order to deliver a high quality of service, the Registered Manager and Service Manager of the service carry out monthly audits.