Conditions Supported
Care Expertise supports and works to alleviate a number of conditions associated with Learning Disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Mental Health needs, Sensory and Communications impairments, and Behaviours that challenge. If you click the links below, we give a brief description of our approach to treating these conditions, which is always client-centred, caring and sensitive.
Sometimes there is a misconception that mental health cannot be improved, but often seemingly intractable problems can be alleviated if not cured by the kind of work we undertake at Care Expertise. If you take a few minutes to visit one of our care homes, you will be able to see at firsthand how we help our clients to achieve greater independence and a better quality of life.
Please click one or more of the following links, or scroll down this page:
Learning Disabilities
To have a learning disability can result in a person having trouble acquiring certain skills. We at Care Expertise provide the care and support to help adults with learning disabilities lead a full and active life. It can be hard for some clients to achieve their full potential but when they work with one of our support teams, our individualised approach can help them make tremendous strides with learning and personal development.
Care Expertise is committed to developing each client’s skills and abilities to enable those with learning disabilities to participate as fully as possible in the day to day life of their community.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Care Expertise has considerable experience supporting clients with autism. In general, people with autism have three principal impairments:
- Difficulties in understanding social relationships and social interactions; consequently, they can withdraw into themselves or, when interacting, can act inappropriately;
- Difficulties in understanding language and communication, particularly a social conversation; and
- Difficulties with imagination and flexibility of thought; therefore, change (particularly when change is unexpected) can be very difficult.
The unique interaction of these impairments can result in clients behaving in unexpected ways, sometimes atypical of autism, but still related to the above autistic impairments.
We regard clients with autism as unique individuals, which is why we provide personalised support and help with developing independent life skills and participate in the community.
Mental Health needs
Care Expertise provides a supportive environment to help individuals recover good mental health. Many people experience mental health problems and we at Care Expertise offer the following to enable clients to integrate back into the community:
- A person centred therapeutic approach based on wellness recovery action planning (WRAP), together with bespoke practical life skills training. We aim to empower and support individuals on their journey to recovery through structured daily programmes.
- Embracing a holistic recovery based ethos, our highly skilled and motivated team of health and care professionals offer emotional and practical support to enable individuals to move towards independent living.
- Engagement in meaningful activities to help individuals regain their self-esteem.
- Help to acquire employable skills including vocational training and work experience that will lead to rewarding employment.
- On-going community outreach support to help ensure successful life-outcomes for our clients.
Behaviours that challenge
We at Care Expertise are committed to the use of non-aversive ways of managing behaviours that challenge. Confrontation, punishment, and restrictive physical interventions are unacceptable. The starting point is to understand the needs of our clients. There may be times when physical intervention is required but it must be non-restrictive, part of a client’s Care Plan, pre-agreed with the client’s Care Manager, and applied only when necessary for the safety and wellbeing of the client.
Behaviours that challenge are not under the control of the individual concerned and are largely due to the person’s lack of ability to communicate. Our policy is always to consider how best to manage behaviours that challenge in a way that ensures the safety, dignity and well-being of the individual. |
