Jasmine Mother's Recovery

Updated 4 October 2023

Jasmine Mother's Recovery is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide accommodation for people who require treatment for substance misuse and is registered to provide accommodation for up to 10 women and their babies or young children. Mothers and their children remain together while the mother receives treatment.

The mother and child are provided with parenting support and observation whilst substance misuse and related issues are addressed. This is the only service of its kind in the country.

Jasmine Mother's Recovery is an abstinence-based service. Women come into the service after completing detoxification programmes but the service also provides residential rehabilitation and an assisted withdrawal service for prescribed medication, such as methadone or buprenorphine with the support of the visiting GP.

Jasmine Mother's Recovery provides aftercare support and outreach. In partnership with a neighbouring women's' inpatient rehabilitation service, Trevi House provides a programme of aftercare support and outreach for women and their children via the Sunflower women's Centre.

Jasmine Mother's Recovery's accommodation includes eight bedrooms in the residential building and two self-contained flats for women at different stages of their treatment.

The service is managed by a chief executive and a service manager. At the time of our inspection there was no registered manager. A registered manager is a person who has registered with CQC to manage the service. They have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

Jasmine Mother's Recovery is a registered charity and individual placements are funded by statutory organisations. Mothers and children are funded separately. Women are referred by local authorities from anywhere across the UK. There is a board of trustees that supports the service governance arrangements.

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspected the on-site nursery and gave it a rating of good. Our last inspection of Jasmine Mother's Recovery was in January 2019. We rated the service as good.

There were two breaches of regulation as medicines were not always administered safety and staff did not always have access to relevant information in people's records. At this inspection we found improvements had been made and the provider was no longer in breach of regulations.

Updated 4 October 2023

Our rating of this location stayed the same. We rated it as good because:

• Women and children received a safe service focussed on their recovery and well-being. Staff clearly understood the traumatic background of women and children using the service and were equipped to provide effective therapeutic support.
• The boundaries and expectations within the service were explicit and aimed at maintaining a safe environment.
• Premises were clean and well-maintained. Safety checks of equipment were undertaken[CK1] .
• Women were able to complete assisted withdrawal from opiates at the service. This was overseen by a GP and nurse. Medicines were now managed safely in a well-organised clinic room.
• Staff and senior management were passionate about the service and clearly focussed on the needs of women and children.

Updated 4 October 2023

Our rating of this service improved. We rated it as good because:

• The service provided safe care. The clinical premises where clients were seen were safe and clean. The service had enough staff. Staff assessed and managed risk well and followed good practice with respect to safeguarding. Medicines were managed safely.
• Managers ensured that staff received training, supervision and appraisal. Staff worked well together as a multidisciplinary team and liaised with relevant services outside the organisation.
• The service was well led, and the governance processes ensured that its procedures ran smoothly.

Updated 14 March 2019

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