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| Short Breaks Services for Children and Adults with a learning disability |
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Application forms for Sitting and Befriending Service Click HERE for CHILDREN and YOUNG PEOPLE Click HERE for ADULTS The forms are in PDF format. Print them off, complete them, and post them back to us. |
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| What Nottingham Mencap offer |
| We provide a variety of Short Breaks services in Nottingham City, Gedling, Broxtowe and Rushcliffe County Areas. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers. |
| Our "Sitting" Service |
| The Short Breaks Sitting Service has evolved from the traditional view of 'baby' sitting. It is available for clients over the age of 5 years and enables Parents and/or Carers to have some 'time out' whilst the client is fully supported in their usual home based activities and evening or bed time routine. |
| Our "Befriending" Service |
| Befriending is an extension of 'Sitting' and it enables clients to access social and leisure activities in the community, for example children may require support to enable to access swimming or rock climbing events whilst adults may enjoy time shopping or maybe a visit to the local public house. In addition to offering respite for parents and carers this service enables people to build on their life skills - building self-confidence and self-esteem. Clients are responsible for paying expenses incurred during the sessions such as entrance fees into the cinema. |
| Our "Supporting Change" Service |
| This is a structures personal service that provides transitional support for people over the age of 14, this includes independent living skills training. This service provides opportunities for clients to achieve goals within agreed time scales. It is person centred and tailored to meet individual needs and by practising basic life skills within their own home or in the community, rather than in a classroom. Clients increase their confidence and self esteem whilst learning skills that open up opportunities for further education, employment or volunteering roles. |
| The cost and who pays? |
| Our service package costs £15.50 per hour. As a non profit making organisation, we ensure that our charges are competitive. There are no additional employment charges such as recruitment fees, holidays pay, registration fees, National Insurance or charges for care assessments. These are all inclusive of our hourly rate. You may not need to pay this fee as there are a variety of funding support packages available. Please contact our office at the address overleaf for further details. |
| Our Staff |
| We employ only trained and experience staff. We carry out a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check and take up two references before employment. We employ our staff directly, which means we handle their tax and National Insurance and provide them with holiday pay. This also means that we are directly responsible for monitoring their work and performance. We maintain a regular ongoing training programme for all our staff allowing them to become competent in more specialist areas. We know how important it is for you to have a familiar face, so we ensure that our staff are carefully matched with clients. An emergency on call system is also in operation. |
| When available? |
| Sessions can be booked from 7am to midnight every day of the week except bank holidays. There is limited availability around Christmas, |
| What we are unable to do for you |
| We are sorry but we are unable to offer support with medication, complete manual handling tasks or meet the needs of people with complex health needs |
| Why choose Nottingham Mencap? |
| We provide a high quality service for people with learning disabilities, we cater for a wide range of care needs. We employ our own qualified Registered Social Worker to oversee the individual assessment of every client's needs prior to the start of the service. This assessment involves the client's family and other relevant professionals to ensure that they too are happy with every element of the service we shall be providing for you. Once the service has started, we maintain a regular dialogue with both the client and their family, to ensure continued satisfaction with our service. We send out customer satisfaction questionnaires annually. We go the extra mile with the placement of our care / support workers and cater to the specfic needs of a diverse client base i.e. ethnic minorities (i.e. linguistic and cultural) / hearing or visually impaired etc. We liaise regularly with Local Authorities, PCT's the NHS and other statutory bodies to ensure that we continually improve our quality assurance methods. Our service is regulated by the Care Quality Commission. Nottingham Mencap is independent of the Royal Society Mencap. We are a local voluntary and community organisation, governed by a board of Trustees. We are Company Limited by Guarantee and a registered Charity, we care for people not for profit. Established in 1950 with 60 years of experience of supporting children and adults with learning disabilities, their families and carers. |
| Contact Us |
| Contact us using the details below and we will happy to support you to apply for our services or answer any of your questions. |
| Nottingham Mencap Harpenden House 203 Edwards Lane NOTTINGHAM NG5 3JA Registered Charity No. 1046081 Phone: 0115 920 4433 Fax: 0115 920 9524 Email: shortbreaks@positivefutures.org Web: www.nottinghammencap.org.uk |
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