SeeAbility - Aldershot Support Service

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• Overview
• Kindness, compassion and dignity
• Treating people as individuals
• Independence, choice and control
• Responding to people’s immediate needs
• Workforce wellbeing and enablement

Caring – this means we looked for evidence that the provider involved people and treated them with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.

At our last assessment we rated this key question good. At this assessment the rating has remained good. This meant people were supported and treated with dignity and respect; and involved as partners in their care.

This service scored 75 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.

The provider always treated people with kindness, empathy and compassion and respected their privacy and dignity. Staff treated colleagues from other organisations with kindness and respect. Relatives told us staff treated people with kindness, compassion, and dignity.

We observed staff, and members of the management team treating people with kindness and we observed they had a good rapport with people and knew them well.

People could receive visitors when they wanted as they lived in their own homes. Where they shared their living accommodation with others there were spaces, they could use privately.

The provider treated people as individuals and made sure people’s care, support and treatment met people’s needs and preferences. They took account of people’s strengths, abilities, aspirations, culture and unique backgrounds and protected characteristics.

People were able to make choices throughout their day, including what they wanted to wear and eat. We observed staff offering people choice and responding to their wishes throughout the inspection.

The registered manager told us how they involved people in their care planning by ensuring they held regular person-centred reviews with people, which included listening to feedback from staff and involving family or key people in the person’s life.

The provider promoted people’s independence, so people knew their rights and had choice and control over their own care, treatment and wellbeing.

A person told us, “Staff set an alarm for the days I need to get up. I have a lie in on Tuesdays and the weekend. I choose what time I go to bed.”

Staff were positive in empowering people to be as independent as possible and celebrated this.They told us they involved people in decisions where they could and gave them at least 2 options to choose from. Staff told us people had the right to refuse, and they would respect their wishes. Staff communicated with people in the way they preferred and were kind and compassionate.

People’s daily notes reflected they were supported to maintain their independence, were offered choices, and any refusals were respected.

The provider listened to and understood people’s needs, views and wishes. Staff responded to people’s needs in the moment and acted to minimise any discomfort, concern or distress.

We observed staff responding positively to a person who was at different times in a heightened state of anxiety. It was clear staff knew people well and responded to their immediate needs with kindness and compassion. We also observed staff knowing when to give a person space to enable them to reduce their anxiety.

The provider cared about and promoted the wellbeing of their staff and supported and enabled staff to always deliver person-centred care.

Staff members told us the service was a good place to work. Team meetings were held to discuss issues relevant to the service or staff experience.

We reviewed surveys, supervisions and team meetings for staff. Action plans where required were devised from these surveys and meetings and were shared with staff. This meant staff’s views were listened to and drove improvement.