Our supported living service is for people who need help to live in their own homes, whether as tenants or owner-occupiers, living alone or with others. Support can mean 24-hour care or simply a few hours a week to help with everyday tasks. We support the learning of home-based tasks, for example, budgeting, bill payment, appointment keeping, shopping, laundry, food preparation, healthy living, and traveling in the community and further.
Person Centrered Care
Person-centred care is where you involve individuals and people important to them to set out how they want their life to be. This can include where they want to live and with whom. How they want to spend their days and nights. Where they want to go on holiday or goals for their life. At the end of the process, importantly it will also highlight the characteristics of the staff they want to support them and spend time with. This will then enable us with their support where possible to recruit their core team.
Our Specialism
Learning Disability
- We support service users to identify their own interests and ambitions. We look at each person’s individual ability and support them to maximise their own potential. The main outcome for our service users is a sustainable and meaningful role in the community. Our services are located is residential areas with a wealth of community facilities nearby; our service users can develop strong links with local amenities and further develop such links on leaving our services.Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans are in place for each service user and PBS is used to engage service users and minimise challenging behaviour. We use the NAPPI behaviour scale to identify the positive influences for each person which aim to reduce the level of challenging behaviour. Our specialist Outcomes Team are on hand to interpret challenging behaviour and identify the root cause or what that person is trying to tell us
Personality Disorder
- Favour Health’s Personality Disorder services combine experience and expertiseassesses the nature, frequency and intensity of the challenging behaviour and the individual’s level of functioning and communication skills and develops in managing challenging behaviour with intensive psychological input. Service users have access to our Consultant Clinical Psychologist who provides Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) on a modular basis including Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance and Mindfulness. We understand that our service users may have a greater emotional need and our staff are trained to focus on service users’ strengths and abilities and in providing quality and meaningful engagement. We offer a full and varied activity programme which is led by service users’ interests and choices and facilitates a structured day approach.
Mental Illness
- Our mental health services focus on supporting service users to maintain good mental health and strengthening their independent living skills. We empower people to take responsibility for their own recovery by supporting service users to identify their own goals, ambitions and interests. We look at each person’s individual ability and support them to maximise their own potential. The main outcome for our service users is a sustainable and meaningful role in the community.
Autism and Asperger’s syndrome
- Our staff are trained to develop strategies for each individual to maximise communication and moderate behaviour. Our specialist Outcomes Team work with staff to monitor unpredictable behaviour and indentify what the service user is trying to tell us; we use the NAPPI behaviour scale to identify the positive influences for each person that aim to reduce the level of challenging behaviour
We use a range of communication aids where required and each individual has a Communication Passport which lists individual needs and wishes and the appropriate equipment required. Service users receive support to develop appropriate social communications skills.
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans are in place for each service user and PBS is used to engage service users and minimise challenging behaviour. We use the NAPPI behaviour scale to identify the positive influences for each person that aim to reduce the level of challenging behaviour.
Our specialist Behaviour Team are on hand to interpret challenging behaviour and identify the root cause or what that person is trying to tell us. We offer a structured leisure and activity programme which focuses on the individual’s preferences
Challenging behaviours
- Our specialist Outcomes Team consists of Behaviour Specialists and Non-Abusive Physical and NAPPI advisors. The team work with staff and service users to develop person-centred strategies to manage challenging behaviour including unpredictable disruptive behaviour, physical aggression, verbal aggression and self-injurious behaviour.
The team assess the nature, frequency and intensity of the challenging behaviour as well as the individual’s level of functioning and communication skills and develops a unique plan to reduce the incidents of the identified behaviours. The team examine any social and environmental factors including daily routine and assesses any conditions that cause pain or discomfort. Risk, capacity and safeguarding assessments are also carried out and woven into each service user's individual plan.
The team also provide support during the transition period if an individual has a particularly complex history and also provides bespoke workshops and training resources which focus on specific areas of challenging behaviour exhibited by an individual.
Our Outcomes team work to identify the root cause of the challenging behaviour quickly to ensure service users can move on to more independent living at the earliest opportunity.
