About Choice Living
Choice Living offers care and support services for various age group ranging from 13 years old children to 65 years old vulnerable adults. Each of our houses are dedicated to specific age group and services.
Choice Living offers accommodation services in a safe, secure and supported environment. We promote relaxed home environment and make everyone feel at home. Our main priority is to provide homely environments for our clients.
Choice Living caters for different needs, from complex to mild, including, but not limited to challenging behaviours, autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), complex associated difficulties, ADHD, and mental health needs.
Our aim is that all our clients achieve an enhanced degree of emotional stability through individualized care planning and target setting.We focus on providing support to help people live fulfilling, happy, meaningful lives which prepare them as much as possible for an independent adult life.
Choice Living offer rooms in a shared apartment or the whole apartment as a solo placement, depending on your choice, affordability and client needs. The houses range from a two to ten bedroom. Each bedroom is fully furnished and includes a bed, chest of drawers, wardrobe and TV.
Choice Living is very flexible and can tailor accommodation to the individual person’s needs and requirements for support and care. Each house will be carefully matched to ensure that the individuals needs are equally matched. Each staff member will also be matched to the needs of the persons in each house.
Our Services
- Specialist home for children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Semi-independent accommodation and support for young people and adults
- Transition and life skills support for care leavers.
- Accommodation for young people on their path to independence
- Accommodation for homeless teenagers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Sporting and cultural activities
- Education Provision: Delivering joint education and care packages for those Not in Education & Training.
Our Staff Team
Choice Living benefits from a large and experienced staff team. All of the residential support workers are either qualified with a NVQ Diploma Level 2 or are working towards this qualification. All management grade staff also either hold the equivalent of a NVQ Diploma Level 5 qualification in or are working towards this.
All our staff have specialist training and experience including Use of positive intervention,
Our staff are fully trained in behavioural difficulty and promoting positive behaviours.
Our staff are fully trained in risk assessment and reducing risk of self-harm, absconding and qualified to support clients with physical and emotional issues.
Choice Living facilities have experienced staff who are fully trained in safeguarding particularly with young females who are high risk sexual exploitation. Staff are also trained dealing with people with mental health and mental illness.
Choice Living facilities is manned by staff 24 hours, 7 days a week, with appropriate consideration given to balancing the skills and experiences of the staff team, with the needs and interests of the children and young people.
Choice Living facilities also operates waking night support workers seven nights per week.
Choice Living Guarantee Offer
We guarantee
- Packages of support are tailored to the individual needs of each client
- Bespoke care packages and individually tailored services
- Staff exhibit empathy to every young person and all live as one big family.
- Everybody has a sense of belonging giving them ownership of the rooms and spaces.
- All of the young people have their own individualised bedrooms.
- Each house benefits from a named house manager and designated staff team
- A range of additional communal rooms for the residents to relax and enjoy
- Garden where young people benefit from safe access to play and fresh air
- A wide variety of both on-site and community-based activities.
- Full support for educational and training opportunities for young people.
children and young people provision
Choice Living has dedicated specialist home for children and young people and provides daily living experiences and activities which are meaningful, memorable and designed to meet their individual needs.
Every young person residing within Choice Living Houses are individually assessed to ensure that a bespoke package of care and support is tailored to their individual needs, including the structure and ratio of their support staff.
Our Services is committed to helping young people to manage their own behaviour as positively as possible. This is seen as a necessary ongoing learning experience that helps develop and equip each young person for life as they reach adulthood.
Recognising and praising self-managed positive behaviour is seen as a proactive and preferred use of time and energy, rather than an emphasis focusing on negative behaviours.
Our Commitment to Children and Young People
At Choice Living, we want young people to be as prepared as possible for transition to adulthood, as well as support them to access education, training and employment.
- We support young people to gain life skills.
- We build resilience in young people.
- Giving young people a sense of belonging;
- Promote positive learning experience;
- feeling in control; and having strong, enriching relationships.
Education Provision:
Delivering joint education and care packages
We understand that some of the children and young people may not be in education and training due to certain factors. Choice Living partners with specialist training providers and educational institutions to offer formal educational services for its clients in a customized and person-centred way.
Choice can facilitate one-to-one learning and home school arrangement for clients, leading to achieving qualifications.
Delivering joint education and care packages provides consistency for the children and young people.
SUPPORTED LIVING and Semi-independent
accommodation for vulnerable adults
Choice Living has dedicated houses for supported living services. Whatever a person wants to achieve, we are here to empower them, supporting with things like benefits and managing money, to going to college, finding a job and moving on to more independent living. Our team is available within agreed support hours throughout the day, and there are team members on call at night in case of an emergency.
Our semi-independent homes are more than just somewhere to live. They bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood so that a young person is prepared for the challenges of living independently.
Transition and life skills support for care leavers
Some young people refer to leaving care as ‘the instant expectation of adulthood’. They are suddenly expected to know how to cook their own meals, run a home and manage their finances, all in one go and without any support.
This is why living in a Choice Living’s 16+ home before leaving care can be hugely beneficial. We provide safe, comfortable homes for care leavers, homeless teenagers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, where they can learn the essential life skills they will need when they transition to independent living.
Sporting and cultural activities
The children and young people are supported to maintain any existing recreational, sporting and cultural activities of interest to them. We also encourage the residents to explore new interests to broaden their life experiences within the community, and to expand their personal and social skills.
They are encouraged to participate in meaningful activities that will enhance their opportunity to develop life skills, their own interests and hobbies.
All existing recreational, sporting and cultural activities are reviewed and will be ongoing throughout the planning and review processes thereafter.
The range of activities include:
- Chosen day trips, including farms and theme parks
- Disco’s
- Regular meals out
- Swimming
- Shopping
- Trampolining
- Walks in the park
Accommodation for young people on their path to independence
The type of accommodation we offer varies depending on the young person. However, no matter which one of our supported housing services they live in, staff will always support young people to work towards their goals and build their confidence for the future.
For the young people, Choice Living will work with the person and professionals to support in maintaining and developing all aspects of life. This could include employment, education, leisure pursuits managing your tenancy agreement, developing friendships, developing social skills, variety of daily living skills, benefits, finances, emotional support, and much more. All will be to an individual’s needs. This will be completed by way of support plans, risk assessments to enable the best support plan and package for individual needs. This will hopefully develop the skills needed to live as independently as possible in your own home or your family home.
For more information on Choice Living services, please contact us today:
We are constantly recruiting for Support Workers and Senior Support Workers who have the passion, drive and determination, who can lead our competent teams in continuously delivering the best care and support to our service users. You will benefit from competitive pay, fully funded Care Certificate: fully funded Diploma’s in Health and Social care (across all levels) and great support and mentorship.
To apply, send your CV to : info@choiceliving.co.uk
