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Home Care and Support Services

Home Care and Support Services

Nature of Service

Stepping Out is a specialist care and support service providing high level support and supervision. We are able to offer personalised services to clients with early on-set dementia and other issues to include learning difficulties, and mental health.

We aim to aid our clients regain lost skills and abilities and promote their independence and dignity.

Service values

We are passionate about empowering and involving service users: We actively support Service Users to:

Communicate their choice in all stages of service development from assessment through to service delivery and beyond.

  • Maximise their potential; building on strengths and meet individual needs towards independence and autonomy, choice and control.
  • Be an active member of the community if desired.
  • Make informed decisions and take positive risks.
  • Achieve better outcomes, ensuring a balance of needs and wants are met.
  • Identify what’s truly important and provide encouragement to actively live by those values.
  • Develop a healthy respect for self and others.
  • Develop self-confidence, self-worth and interpersonal skills.
  • Develop trust in others and share relevant information within the bounds of confidentiality.

 

Aims & Objectives

The Stepping Out Home Care service’s main aims and objectives are as follows:

 

  • To provide a broad range of person centred services that meet the diverse needs of our customers to maximise control, choice independence and autonomy.
  • To promote and improve quality of life for individuals. Our service is tailored to meet the individual requirements of the service user in order to maintain maximum quality of life and normality in their own home.
  • Protect the rights and promote the interests of service users.
  • Promote the independence of people who use our services while protecting them as far as possible from danger and harm.
  • We aim to work persistently with the community to ensure universal services are increasingly geared up to meet peoples personalised needs.

Delivery of Service

Our person centred support teams aim to aid clients maintain independence and ensure they are able to remain within their own homes for as long as possible. Below are some of the main areas our staff members strive to teach, reduce, explore and or support a client achieve.

•          Support with Daily Hygiene Routines

•          Support with food Preparation

•          Support with maintaining a clean and safe living environment

•          Support with Food & Grocery Shopping

•          Support with attending leisure & health activities

•          Support with family contact

•          Religious & cultural needs & preferences

•          Support with reducing substance & alcohol abuse

•          Safety & self-harm reduction + safeguarding

•          Daily reflective support on conduct & behaviour

•          Managing Incidents

•          Support with socialising and community integration

•          Support with attending appointments

•          Support with or to maintain independent skills

•          help increase self-esteem and confidence in order to reach their full potential.

Click here to contact us in order to discuss a bespoke care package for you, a client or a family member.

Click here to view and download our HomeCare brochure.

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