Our learning however is that people’s needs understandably change over time and ongoing psychological support – including occupational therapists who specialise in sensory support, speech and language therapy – is essential. Many providers now have p ositive behaviour support teams to provide ongoing additional support which can be great. Things can go quickly wrong when the person and their support provider are left on their own. Getting it right for someone is a team effort. For someone to have their own home, their own tenancy by law gives that person more rights and places them in a stronger position.īuilding the r ight s upport places a lot of emphasis on multi-disciplinary working and rightly so. In our experience, the starting place should be supported living principles and practice.
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Where there are professional anxieties about discharging someone, there can be the assumption that registered care can be safer and more s ecure. Without creativity, such conditions can result in the simplest solution – the development of accommodation and support that simply mirrors hospital life albeit on a smaller scale. This creates a challenge for support providers in sourcing the right property whilst ensuring a robust enough local infrastructure.
We have, however, also experienced a condition of discharge being immediate access to additional staff if needed. įor many people, it is important that they are able to live on their own, t o have their own home. The learning and development department need to ensure teams can access the training and development designed specific ally around the person they are supporting. Getting it right impacts and can challenge every part of an organisation – for example, the HR department need to think creatively and differently about recruitment, about job descriptions and patterns of work. Providing the right support is the responsibility of the whole organisation not just the support team. And sometimes you won’t agree with each other, sometimes you won’t meet the standards expected. Great support to a person means involving, supporting and working alongside their family as well. We think this is wrong and strongly believe this is a false economy in any case. We commonly hear that providers are paid to support the individual, not their family. This can be a learning curve for support providers.
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They too need to come to terms with what has happened, to learn how to trust again and to re-establish relationships. Families have been as traumatised by the experience and have their own support needs. When support is being designed, commissioned and funded for people moving out of hospital or at risk of being admitted, the support for their family continues to be largely forgotten or ignored. Our learning about what works and what doesn’t continues to shape and direct the support we provide because what we do know for sure, is that living your life in a hospital doesn’t work for anyone.
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