Care Home: Stonepit Close (42-44)

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What the care home does well The service has a strong commitment to enabling service users to develop their skills, including social, emotional, educational, cultural communication and independent living skills. They are encouraged and supported to identify their goals, and aspirations and work to achieve them. This enables the service users of this home to make choices in accordance with their abilities and develop usable independent living skills. The home provides excellent service to the service users living at the home. Contact with family and friends are encouraged and service users are able to entertain their visitors in the privacy of their bedroom if they so wish. Service user spoken to indicated they were happy at the home and liked their employment and leisure activities. All service users at this home enjoy a full active lifestyle. The documentation of individual care plans are easy to read, the assessments gave the reader a full picture of the service users likes and dislikes, communication needs and risk assessments. The home has demonstrated that the care needs of the current service users living at the home are well catered for and met. Observations of care staff interaction with service users indicated that service users are treated with dignity and respect. It was also observed that great care was taken in respect of the service users personal belongings and standard of cleanliness in bedrooms ensured service users lived in a well-maintained environment. The home has demonstrated its capability to cater for service users from ethnic minority by ensuring staff have the knowledge through training to meet the diverse needs of service users. The home has an Equality and Diversity policy, which the staff reassured us they use in their daily work with service users. They also have an equal opportunities policy, which they use in selecting inducting and preparing carers from overseas to work within the British culture. We were told the manager had a good grasp of Equality and Diversity and uses it in her daily work with the staff and service users. The home has recently been host to a Japanese health care individual who is seeking help in setting up a home similar to this home to meet the needs of service users in Japan. What the care home could do better: The home continues to offer an excellent service to the people living there. No requirements or recommendation of good practise was made on this visit. Random inspection report Care homes for adults (18-65 years) Name: Address: Stonepit Close (42-44) 42-44 Stonepit Close Godalming Surrey GU7 2LS three star excellent service The quality rating for this care home is: The rating was made on: A quality rating is our assessment of how well a care home, agency or scheme is meeting the needs of the people who use it. We give a quality rating following a full review of the service. We call this review a ‘key’ inspection. This is a report of a random inspection of this care home. A random inspection is a short, focussed review of the service. Details of how to get other inspection reports for this care home, including the last key inspection report, can be found on the last page of this report. Lead inspector: Mavis Clahar Date: 2 9 0 4 2 0 1 0 Information about the care home Name of care home: Address: Stonepit Close (42-44) 42-44 Stonepit Close Godalming Surrey GU7 2LS 01483861066 01483861055 vannessahalfacre@nas.org.uk www.autism.org.uk Telephone number: Fax number: Email address: Provider web address: Name of registered provider(s): Name of registered manager (if applicable) Vanessa Halfacre Type of registration: Number of places registered: Conditions of registration: Category(ies) : National Autistic Society care home 10 Number of places (if applicable): Under 65 Over 65 0 learning disability Conditions of registration: 10 The maximum number of service users to be accommodated is 10 The registered person may provide the following category of service only: Care home only (PC) to service users of the following gender: Either whose primary care needs on admission to the home are within the following category: Learning disability (LD) Date of last inspection Brief description of the care home 42-44 Stonepit Close is a purpose built residential home for up to ten young adults with autism or Aspergers syndrome. The service is operated by the National Autistic Society, and is situated in a residential area approximately one mile from Godalming town centre. Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 2 of 9 Brief description of the care home The accommodation consists of two houses, known as Holly House and Jan Norton House. The houses have separate entrances, but are connected by an office and recreation room (hobby room). Each service user has a single bedroom. With the exception of one bedroom, which is on the ground floor with en-suite facilities, the bedrooms are all on the first floor. The home does not have a lift therefore; service users need to be ambulant and able to negotiate the stairs. All bedrooms have hand washbasins. Each house has a domestic style kitchen and adjoining pantry, a utility room with domestic laundry facilities, a communal lounge, quiet lounge and conservatory and dining room. Holly house has a separate shower and bath; Jan Norton has two baths. Both houses have ample toilet facilities. There are payphone facilities. Each of the houses has an enclosed garden and the home has three vehicles. There is limited street parking available. Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 3 of 9 What we found: This unannounced site visit, which forms part a random inspection to be undertaken by the Care Quality Commission, (CQC) was undertaken by Mrs. Mavis Clahar on the 29th April 2010 and lasted for one and a half hours; commencing at 12:50 hours and concluding at 14:20 hours. The registered manager of the home assisted on this inspection. The CQC Inspecting for Better Lives (IBL) involves an Annual Quality Assurance Assessment (AQAA) to be completed by the service, which includes information from a variety of sources. This initially helps us to prioritise the order of the inspection and identify areas that require more attention during the inspection process. This document was received by CQC (us) and is referred to throughout the report. The comments received via the pre inspection questionnaires sent to service users and members of staff are also included in this report. The information contained in this report was gathered mainly from observation by the inspector, speaking with one service user, (the others were out at Day Services) with the manager and with one care staff. Further information was gathered from records kept at the home and from the pre inspection questionnaires returned to us. The manager and staff are aware of the Laws regarding equality and diversity and this was reflected in the staff mix. Service users in this home are mainly British Caucasians service users with some service users from other ethnic minority groups and reflect the population of the area in which the home is situated. We observed a calm and relaxed atmosphere within the home, with service users free to move around the home. The last key inspection of this service was carried out on 5th April 2007 when a star rating of Excellent was awarded. On this visit we looked in-depth at one outcome area Lifestyle. The observed interactions between care workers and service users were relaxed and friendly creating a warm and friendly homely feeling. Documented evidence kept at the home demonstrated service users are encouraged to live a full life and to partake in age related activities such as going to the pub, going on holidays to include foreign holidays, having meals out, participate in various sports, go shopping and going to the cinema. Their religious beliefs are documented and acknowledged. In discussion with service user we were told their spiritual needs are being met by the home in agreement with the service users; an example of this is where one service user has expressed a wish to visit other denomination other than their own, this has been acted upon and the service user now visit other church services as he chooses accompanied by a member of staff. Review of service users records and in discussion with care worker it was documented that Service users are encouraged to make friends outside of the home and to keep in touch with their friends and families as they wish. Service users are enabled to entertain their guest in the privacy of their bedroom if they so wish. We were informed the home is run on the basis that it is a family home where each member is allocated tasks within their capabilities and sometimes tasks are allocated that will stretch the service user, who is always Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 4 of 9 supported and enabled by their key worker, and service users achievements are always acknowledged. Completed risk assessments were observed for service users where it is assessed as necessary to the development of the service user. We were told care workers aided by the service users provide catering service for all at the home. We observed service users are allowed to make drinks as they wish with assistance from their key worker if needed. The manager told us that at their weekly menu-planning meeting they discuss the advantages of healthy diet and aid the service users in making healthy choices. They discuss the meals for the week with each service user encouraged to make at least one choice of main or evening meal. The service users on a weekly basis do food shopping. What the care home does well: What they could do better: The home continues to offer an excellent service to the people living there. No requirements or recommendation of good practise was made on this visit. Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 5 of 9 If you want to know what action the person responsible for this care home is taking following this report, you can contact them using the details set out on page 2. Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 6 of 9 Are there any outstanding requirements from the last inspection? Yes £ No R Outstanding statutory requirements These are requirements that were set at the previous inspection, but have still not been met. They say what the registered person had to do to meet the Care Standards Act 2000, Regulations 2001 and the National Minimum Standards. No. Standard Regulation Requirement Timescale for action Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 7 of 9 Requirements and recommendations from this inspection: Immediate requirements: These are immediate requirements that were set on the day we visited this care home. The registered person had to meet these within 48 hours. No. Standard Regulation Requirement Timescale for action Statutory requirements These requirements set out what the registered person must do to meet the Care Standards Act 2000, Regulations 2001 and the National Minimum Standards. The registered person(s) must do this within the timescales we have set. No. Standard Regulation Requirement Timescale for action Recommendations These recommendations are taken from the best practice described in the National Minimum Standards and the registered person(s) should consider them as a way of improving their service. No Refer to Standard Good Practice Recommendations Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) Page 8 of 9 Reader Information Document Purpose: Author: Audience: Further copies from: Inspection Report Care Quality Commission General Public 0870 240 7535 (telephone order line) Our duty to regulate social care services is set out in the Care Standards Act 2000. Copies of the National Minimum Standards –Care Homes for Adults (18-65 years) can be found at www.dh.gov.uk or got from The Stationery Office (TSO) PO Box 29, St Crispins, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 1GN. Tel: 0870 600 5522. Online ordering from the Stationery Office is also available: www.tso.co.uk/bookshop Helpline: Telephone: 03000 616161 Email: enquiries@cqc.org.uk Web: www.cqc.org.uk We want people to be able to access this information. 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