RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME

SJD Homes are providers of a 24hr staffed Therapeutic Residential Care Home for children and young people with a range of needs such as challenging behaviour, emotional and behavioural issues, offending behaviour, autistic spectrum disorders and complex needs  amongst others.

We specialise in firstly providing a home for children and young people with high end needs; where they will feel settled and safe. We also specialise in providing a range of services to support the young people in achieving independence. However, all of our packages will be bespoke tailor made to their individual needs. SJD Homes regularly review care plans to meet the specific needs of each child or young person.  The packages range from low support needs of 5hrs 1:1 per week to 24hrs 1:1 or 2:1 per week, provided on an individual basis. All of our packages are based on a de-escalating scale, where the 1:1 support is regularly reviewed and if appropriate, reduced on a transitional basis to enable children and young people to achieve greater independence.

RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME

What We Provide?

When placing a child or young person at SJD Homes, we will concentrate on the following basic tasks in order to aid, build and maintain the client’s independent living skills:

  • A safe place to stay; alongside supportive, nurturing environment and staff

  • Integrating children and young people from boroughs consider high risks with safety and well-being concerns into SJD Homes.

  • Working in correlation with children’s and young people’s EHCP

  • Partnerships working with families, parents and carers

  • One to one key working

  • Ice Breaking days

  • Access to local work experience 

  • Activities (to pursue interest and hobbies)

  • Support accessing employment

  • Speech and Language Therapist

  • Dance and Art Therapy

  • Dance and Music therapy

  • In House Counselling  

  • One to One educational tuition

  • Mentoring service (ex-gang members, boxers and footballers)

  • Affiliations to sports mentors, e.g. Therapeutic Boxing and Football

At SJD Homes we never see residential care as a last resort. Our block contract and spot purchase children’s home provide valuable experiences for young people thanks to our staff’s expertise, bespoke and a genuine, caring approach. Young people have their say on decorating their bedrooms, deciding house rules and picking what’s on the menu each week. By empowering them to make decisions on issues that directly affect their lives, they feel more at home and positive about engaging with staff. Our children’s care homes have between one and three-bed spaces for young people aged up to 18 years old. We take both planned and emergency referrals.

We keep our numbers to a minimum to ensure all children and young people receive full support and attention for the best possible outcomes.

  • Prepared meals 3 times per day with snacks at our Children and Young People’s disposal

  • Support with maintaining a clean and safe living environment

  • Daily reflective support on behavior and conduct

  • Preventing incidents intelligently and managing incidents professionally if they are to arise

Depending on the child or young person’s exact needs; we can then factor in additional support. This may include:

  • Supervised food and grocery shopping

  • Administering money/budgeting

  • Support to attend community based appointments

  • Support with engaging in training, education or employment

  • Contact support for children families and young people

  • Therapeutic intervention

  • Additional staffing 24 hour 1:1/ 2:1 etc

  • Waking night staffing

  • Outreach support to young people placed in Stand Alone flats once leaving SJD Homes

Through well-structured risk assessments that incorporate strict boundaries and produce positive measurable outcomes, SJD Homes are able to offer vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life and enable them to achieve greater independence.