Catholic Care
What We Do - Adult Services - North Leeds

Allerton ParkLocation: North Leeds
Contact: Aileen Donnelly (Manager)
Tel: 0113 268 1480
Email: aileen.donnelly@catholic-care.org.uk


Aims and Objectives (specialisms)
We offer a home to six people with learning disabilities. Both male and female residents are welcome and our current residents are aged 35 to 71. We aim to provide care in a homely, welcoming and friendly environment, support our residents' independence, fulfilment, rights, choice, dignity and help them to take their rightful place within the community.

We provide each individual resident with Person Centred Planning care to ensure our care fulfils all aspects of their life and ambitions. Care plans and Person Centred Plans are reviewed every six months to enable staff to continuously review and meet the changing needs of each resident. Residents' meetings are held monthly to enable residents to discuss their views and opinions.

General Description
The home is situated in a quiet area of North Leeds and is set in beautiful grounds with well-kept gardens and rockery areas with accessible pathways. The home offers a large lounge, dining room, kitchen and laundry and we also have an activity room which all our residents enjoy using for a wide range of activities. These activities include karaoke, music (often accompanied by strobe lighting and lava lamps), arts and crafts, board games, jigsaws, etc, or sometimes just relaxation.

Each resident has their own bedroom with washing facilities and this is furnished and decorated to their own personal taste. We have a minibus which enables us to enjoy day trips to the seaside, the countryside for picnics and walks, one-to-one shopping trips, theatre trips and visits to local beauty spots and places of interest. Our residents enjoy holidays each year in the UK and abroad.

Our residents choose weekly menus and enjoy a variety of foods. Staff promote a healthy, balanced diet, and residents are encouraged to help prepare and cook the meals. Special dietary requirements are catered for

Our staff team has a range of experience, skills and qualifications to meet the needs of our residents and also to meet organisational requirements. All permanent staff have completed their mandatory training, which is reviewed and updated regularly. Staff have regular supervision to discuss their professional development needs.

We have three volunteers from abroad working with us each year, who give up ten months of their lives in order to work with others in a Christian setting. Their ideas and skills are most welcome and bring a freshness to the home each September.

Inspections
This service is registered with the Commission for Social Care Inspection and following our most recent inspection we achieved "Excellent".

Visitors
Friends and family are very welcome at the home and all authorised visitors are free to visit at any reasonable time. All visitors are asked to sign the visitors' book.


 

Mission and Values
Catholic Care is a charitable organisation working on behalf of the diocese of Leeds. It offers a variety of services and support not only to the Catholic population, but also to the wider community as a whole.

Catholic Care acts to support those in need of its services, especiallly the weak and the vunerable and it acts as an advocate for those unable to represent themselves

The primary purpose of the agency is to foster and influence a vision of how people can live together in Christian charity, love and justice, by taking the "Caring Church into the Community

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