The transitional living assessment area within our service is designed to provide an environment where community supported living placements can be simulated, so that an exact care package can be proposed if the placement in the community is going to stand the best possible chance of success. This philosophy aims to reduce the risk of placement breakdown and a possible future admission into mainstream rehabilitation services following crisis.
The Grovely Flat
The transitional living flat attatched to Grovely House represents the final stage in our service pathway, and is not designed as a long stay environment. It has been designed to enable Service Users to have the opportunity to fully develop their independent living skills prior to a community discharge. Monitoring of the effectivness of the placement is undertaken by the inter-disciplinary team, and information on the exact level of support the Service User would require when living in the community is fed back to the funding authority and care manager.
Life within this environment is designed to be as normal as possible, with the Service User taking reponsibility for day to day household activities, accessing sheltered work schemes, self administration of any prescribed medication, and other related activities of daily life.
Additional Transitional Living Assessment and Long Stay Areas
Further developments within our Brain Injury Services Division are planned to include a range of both assessment and long stay transitional living bungalows on the Glenside Manor Site, and also remote transitional / supported living facilities within the Salisbury region, with a team of outreach workers providing community care packages. The possibility of the Service Users living in such environments accessing the main site for Day Centre Services and specialist monitoring and review by members of the inter-disciplinary team would be avaliable. It is hoped that this provision with be avaliable from 2006.
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