About Us
Gemstone Care is an experienced and focused operator that delivers high quality Supported Living Services to adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour living in their own accommodation under the Supported Living Scheme. Gemstone Care has many years experience in the Learning Disability sector and successfully operates Residential Care Homes, which specialise in the care of service users with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
Gemstone is now focused on providing a Supported Living Service to service users with learning disabilities who have undergone a transition to live in their own homes under the Supported Living Scheme, enabling them to live more independently by offering them a full 24 hour Care and Support Package provided by experienced and dedicated trained staff.
Service users are supported on a daily basis to be more independent and become more responsible for their own individual homes and are encouraged to participate in Independent Living Skills, such as taking part in general domestic chores, like, house cleaning, bed making, laundry washing, house maintenance, gardening, preparing simple beverages and simple meals and washing up. They are also encouraged to become more aware of the local community and are assisted with food and clothes shopping tasks, taught the value of money, encouraged to handle money and pay for food shopping, house bills and personal spending so that they become aware of how important money is in everyday life.
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Aim & Objectives
Our aims and objectives is to assist our service users to live more independently by allowing them to become active in the local community, we do this by creating a Person Centred Care & Support Plan, which then focuses entirely on the service users health and well being, interests and hobbies, supported by our highly trained and qualified care and support staff.
Service users are encouraged to take up activities of their choice and also encouraged to take up college courses to pursue personal interests and hobbies. Work experience opportunities are also arranged for service users, such as, working in local charity shops and local businesses, giving service users first hand experience of work environments and dealing with people. This greatly increases their confidence allowing them to feel part of the community thus enabling them to lead a more interesting, more enjoyable and more valued lifestyle.
All service users Civil Rights, Dignity, Privacy and Independence are fully observed and respected leading them to enjoy a fulfilling and varied lifestyle.
Stimulation and encouragement are vital aspects of our care. By actively encouraging everyone to participate in a variety of activities, often within the local community, we ensure that they develop well, experience less frustration and are able to lead contented, fulfilling lives.
All our care workers will have either already attained or be in the process of attaining a QCF qualification (former NVQ) in Health and Social Care.
Our staff are all DBS checked and we regularly undertake quality assurance visits and quality control checks.
We are accredited and regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)with an outstanding report from CQC
