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Tel: 0113 388 5400
Fax: 0113 388 5401
Email: info@catholic-care.org.uk
Location: Sowerby Bridge
Contact: Janet Kavanagh (Senior Housing Support Worker)
Tel Head Office: 0113 388 5400
Email: janet.kavanagh@catholic-care.org.uk
General Description
The home is designed to offer permanent accommodation to adults with mental health problems. There are eight flats and each is fully self-contained with a bed sitting room, bathroom and kitchen.
Within the building there are also communal areas, which all tenants will be free to use. These include a lounge, kitchen, laundry and guest room.
Supported Housing Workers are also on site on a daily basis. They have their own office within the building and are there to offer support, advice and guidance on any day-to-day issues of concern that tenants may have.
The workers will also liaise with other agencies and workers concerned with the general welfare of tenants.
The project is jointly managed by Catholic Care, who employ the workers and who manage the service offered to the tenants, and by Places for People, who own the building.
There is also a multi-disciplinary advisory committee, which includes two tenants. They meet on a regular basis and offer advice and guidance on all policy matters.
Tenants will be of adult age with a history of serious mental health problems.
As the flats offer only single accommodation, tenants need to live alone.
The project does not offer 24-hour staff cover and for this reason, is not able to accommodate people with serious behavioural problems, this includes substance abuse.
We do not offer Health Care, general Social Care, Personal Care or Specialist Counselling.
Applications are invited from all sections of the community, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, and political or religious beliefs.
The home forms part of a range of provision within Calderdale, for people with mental health problems and works in a complementary fashion with existing services.
Accordingly, all referrals will be channelled throughout existing Social Services and Health referral and assessment procedures.
General enquiries about the appropriateness and availability of tenancies can be made by Mental Health Key Workers directly to the home or Catholic Care. Please ask for a copy of our Service Statement.
Decisions on allocation are made by a multi-disciplinary Lettings Panel which meets when needed.
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
