Restormel House

Restormel House is a large six bedroom Victorian terraced property in central Plymouth and is only ten minutes’ walk from Plymouth city centre, which boasts many places of interest, such as The Hoe and The Barbican both stooped in History. Within the city centre there are many shops, the Theatre Royal, cinemas, pubs and restaurants. The railway station is five minutes’ walk away, which offers good rail links to London, Cornwall and the rest of the country. Plymouth has a ferry port that provides regular services to France and Spain as well as the airport offering flights to destinations throughout the country.

Person centred planning, review and awareness. Confidence and encouragement to make decisions, rights and responsibilities and promotion of access to local advocacy. Budgeting skills and weekly planning, daily living skills, including meal preparation, cooking and domestic skills. Assistance with personal care and encouragement to becoming more independent with self care. Choice and support to attend college/events/activities. Awareness of health promotion, health related conditions and specialist support to access professionals. Actively participate in community events through one to one sessions and planned events with other indivdiuals. Individuals are involved in the recruitment and selection of the staff that support them. Involvement in our quality checkers project. Medication self assessment programme – from understanding why a person takes medication right through to training and assessment to self medication. Road safety awareness and support programmes to enable greater independence in the community (with planned risk management). Support to participate in weekly health and safety, fire and first aid checks, as well as nightly security checks and keeping safe awareness. Participation in training and awareness workshops in relation to keeping safe, saying no to abuse, speaking out and recruitment

Carla Dearing the service manager at Restormel has 12 years of experience working with adults with learning disabilities, mental health, challenging behaviour and complex needs. Carla has NVQ level 3 in Health and Social care, she has attended trg for epilepsy, autism, advocacy, SHEALD, Sexual Health Training with Eddystone Trust, IOSH, Supervision Trg. She has also completed basic counselling skills and level one in counselling.

The team including Carla have over 100 years experience between them, many of the staff have received specialist training in Autism, Epilepsy, Behaviours which Challenge, CPI, Mental Health Awareness, SHEALD (sexual harm exhibited by adults with learning disabilities), Sexuality and Relationships. A group of staff have recently had training from The Edystone trust to become CHIPs – Community HIV Information Practitioners. This is in addition to mandatory training. The Service has an additional Behaviour Support /PCP advisor employed on a part time basis who has many years of experience in both Children and Adult services. She supports both the staff and the service users to develop.

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Please click here to view the CQC inspection report for Restormel House