Orchard View

Regard’s aim is to provide the highest possible quality of support to the people who use our services. We have vast experience in supporting young adults on the autistic spectrum. Our enabling, self empowering approach is tailored to a person’s aspirations, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.

Transition from residential college or the family home is an exciting but sometimes stressful time for the individual and their family. We aim to provide a seamless transition by ensuring our experienced staff team place the individual at the centre of the transition process but also facilitate partnership working with all key members within the person’s circle of support. Packages of support are tailored to reflect individual need with core emphasis based on enabling people to gain confidence and increased independence with all aspects of daily living.

Here at Orchard View we specalise in supporting young adults with learning disabilities who may also have associated complex behavioral needs and or autism. We also currently support young people with Smith Magenis Syndrome and FAS.

Orchard View is a very active, vibrant service and support is flexibly structured to meet the busy life’s of the young people accessing colleges, employment and numerous local social and recreational opportunities. We have strong links with local residential colleges and are currently in the process of supporting two service users who joined us from residential college when they were 19 years old to now move onto supported living.

The property

Orchard View is a large detached listed building located within a quiet residential area of Frinsbury Strood.

It has excellent public transport links to the local area including trains and buses to the historical city of Rochester, Maidstone, London and South East Costal resorts.

The home has recently undergone re-decoration and all service users have been fully involved in the selection of colors and furnishings.

On the ground floor there is a large lounge, dinning room and kitchen. There are also four bedrooms a shower room and separate toilet.

On the first floor there are five further bedrooms, two bathrooms and a separate toilet

Outside is a beautiful extensive garden with trampoline and BBQ entertainment area which is hub of social activity during the summer months.

Service users like to keep the garden pristinely maintained and will tend to the vegetable patch and flower garden on a daily basis.

The Service

We adopt an outcome focused approach by working with the service user to take all areas of their life, important to them, into consideration.

We Offer

24 hours a day shared support; including night support.
Promote opportunity for life skills training to enable people to move from residential care onto supported living.
1:1 support for specific support to compliment individual assessed needs if required.
Full inclusive support planning, care needs and risk assessments.
Individual health care planning and facilitation.
Promotion of communication for users with autism and or communication needs. We promote use of pictorial aids, makaton communication passports, audio communication systems and where required will involve speech and language therapist.
Longstanding, motivated and consistent fully trained staff team.
Our aim is to decrease 1:1 support hours as skills are further developed and greater independence gained where possible
Support is structured to ensure that the individual has the opportunity to access a full range of activities within the community e.g. football, cinema swimming and local clubs and where possible employment opportunities and access to local colleges.
There is scope for service users to move onto established supported living services within the local area. This promotes consistency from staff team and enables service users to have full control and choice over selecting where they wish to reside.
Opportunity for outreach support to be provided by staff from within the Regard.

Specialist Support

Staff team with specialist training supporting challenging behavior, Epilepsy, Autism and Makaton
Promoting self advocacy and support to access advocacy services.
Social Activities/inclusion and community links
Vocational opportunities and access to local colleges
Facilitation with health care appointments and full health action plan.
Initial orientation to new surrounding and establishing new routines
Well established links with community learning disability team and health care professionals.
Support to gain local voluntary or supported employment.

Generalised support

Emotional support/socialization
Consistency of any specific management approaches in line with risk assessment or guidelines.
Personal care
Promotion of group social activities as desired by individuals
Support with cleaning and laundry
Menu planning, shopping and cooking
Administration of medication.
Travel training where applicable to further promote independence
Supporting individuals to maintain the safety of their environment
Benefits support and assistance with claims by a specialist team