Partnership Care Day Opportunities

Committed to providing excellent quality services for adults with learning disabilities and Autism

Partnership Day Opportunities service which is owned and managed by Partnership Care London Ltd. If you think this service will suit your needs, then you can arrange to come and visit us and see for yourself the kinds of activities and opportunities we are able to support you with, and meet our staff teams.

Many people feel anxious at the thought of using day opportunities but you can be pleasantly surprised when you find out what we can offer as a service. This could benefit the individual and their family.

Who is Partnership Care Day Opportunities for?

Partnership Care Day Opportunities is for people with profound multiple learning disabilities, positive behaviour and complex needs. We provide support for people day to day enable you to maintain and improve your independence skills, and to find activities in the community that you can access as well as having activities in the bases. Day opportunities can give carers or family a break from their caring roles and take some time for their own interests.

It is a safe, informal, friendly place for you to make friends and enjoy both community activities and activities in the centres. Our aim is to support you to build new skills and develop existing ones.

Your first visit

We like you to visit before your start with us, so that you can meet the staff who will be supporting you, and the other people who attend to the centre. We like to get to know you and what you enjoy doing. This will help us with your person-centred support and to plan our activity programme. Every person who uses our facilities is supported according to their needs.

Help and support

Everyone who uses the centre has their own Keyworker and their own individual support plan. A key Worker is a member of staff who takes a special interest in your well-being and will build up a special relationship with you based on trust and knowledge. They will work with you and your family or carer to keep your support plan up to date.

Our aims and how we achieve them

Autism Service

Partnership Care London would like to introduce their most recent specialism in care services provision; for key and active support to individuals in the community, based at home; on the spectrum of conditions associated with Autism and complex needs in communications and behaviours.

At Partnership Care London, working in partnership with local services, clients and families; we are now looking for new applications for our busy, well regarded day services provision from clients with a diagnosis of Autism; while our home care / community services welcomes private enquiries where adults at home or living in the community with Autism, for your personal, domestic support and a strength based approach in how you would like us to engage with the specific needs of your Autism.

Our staff members remain ready to answer all your queries, questions on how Partnership Care London can be available for your additional support through our day services and home care services. Please don’t hesitate to either phone, email or better still, arrange an appointmentfor a personal meeting with one of our managers; on your Autism condition needs, how we could best support.

“ My art activity has enabled me to become a part of society. When there is something that a person with autism does well, it should be encouraged and cultivated “.

Check our wider services on our website; request our brochure, call in for a person visit. With your diagnosis of Autism on the spectrum, sometimes with additional needs, we are here for your options and opportunities at home, in the community, with family and friends and with our specialism.

Respecting people

We respect people’s individuality, culture and beliefs and expect other people using our services to do the same. We do not tolerate negative or personal comments directed at service users or staff members.

Our Facilities and Activities

In Partnership Day Opportunities Centre, we have tried to create a safe, friendly and stimulating environment where people will feel comfortable and at ease. We have areas and safe and secure Roof Garden in the base where you can have a quieter environment if you prefer, and we have areas where you can join in with activities.

We have a highly skilled workforce that receives regular statutory training as well as staff with more specialised training to deliver gastrostomy care and medication.

We use the new care certificate which was introduced in April 2015, alongside our comprehensive staff induction training to ensure all staff have the skills and knowledge to meet different needs of the people who attend day services.

We have access to a Qualified Learning Disability Nurse, who will advise where needed. A Qualified nurse also trains and ensures staffs are competent to carry out gastrostomy feed and gastrostomy medication.

We have close links with the Community Learning Disabilities Team where we can access advice and involvement where needed from Speech and Language Therapists, Dieticians, Social Workers, Physiotherapists, Psychologists and Occupational Therapists, and we also have regular contact with Wheelchair Services. We will seek support and advice where needed for all you support needs.

Healthy, nutritious food

We provide a snack type lunch, and you will be involved in choosing and preparing the food you prefer. We will cater for your dietary or religious needs, and healthy food options are available. You will have access to drinks throughout the day. You may like to go out occasionally out occasionally for your lunch, and this can be built into your activity planning.

Activities

We offer a wide range of activities; however, we are always open to new ideas and we try to find things that you find interesting. Some of the activities that people currently access include accessible cycling, bowling, golf, cinema, horse carriage riding, hydrotherapy and rebound therapy.

We support people to access sports centres where there is swimming, a gymnasium, sit-down aerobics and bowls. We access activities in Community Centres such as cookery and arts and crafts. We visit libraries, museums and day trip. We support some people to access voluntary jobs. Whilst you are in the base, we offer different activities, Wii, snooker, computer, arts and crafts, games, cookery to name a few.

No Smoking Policy

Smoking is not allowed, in any part of our building. However, if you are a smoker, you can smoke in the garden areas