Information for Commissioners

Information for Commissioners

Aspire is a small organisation that is able to create and maintain individually designed person-centred care for people with learning disabilities and/or autism who may display behaviour that challenges. We will enable those who wish to return, or remain, in their communities with their families and friends. 

Right Support

  • We will provide supported living and community enabling services to promote independence to people living in their own homes, who require support with daily living and personal care.
  • There may be occasions where people would like to live together and this will be facilitated either through existing or relationship-based matching processes.
  • We will not provide accommodation, but will provide support to the person and their circle of support to create and maintain appropriate tenancy agreements, adapting materials and support to help them make the decisions or utilising Lasting Power of Attorney or Court Appointed Guardians where needed.
  • The properties will be sourced with the person and their families to meet their unique lifestyles, evidenced needs and located to enable them to access the communities and facilities that are important to them.

Right Care

  • We will enable people to have access to the activities that give their life meaning, whether that be sports based activities or socialising with friends, irrespective of their disability through positive risk taking. This might be things they used to do in the past or something they might like to try for the first time.
  • Making choices is integral to adult life. Materials and routines will be created to meet the communication strengths and preferences of the individual such as symbols, relationships and bite sized decisions. Where a person is unable to make all of the decisions about their life, we will engage with their family and friends, whilst still adapting materials, so their voice is still present within the process.
  • Teams will use person-centred active support, to increase independence in identified leisure, work and home based activities, by using structured teaching methods and enablement approaches “the right support at the right time”.

Right Culture

As an organisation we have core values that will create a foundation to all of our work and interactions.

Collaboration: To work together with the person and the people who support them to identify and take steps to meet their goals through adapting materials and routines, ensuring they remain at the centre of the life they choose.

Integrity and humility: Respect and value for the people we support, the staff we employ and the families and professionals who work with us to meet joint goals. That what we promise and hope for, is reflected in our behaviours and outcomes.

Transparency: As an organisation and as individuals we take care and effort to be open about our beliefs and behaviours and remain accountable for our actions.

Practice: We will use an evidenced based approach to care collecting outcome based data and feedback to inform decision making that will include:

  • A trauma informed Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) model to enable the person, their staff and support circle to stay healthy and well. Each person will have personalised strategies to maintain good physical and emotional health and effective early intervention to respond to indicators of distress and robust crisis management plans.
  • We will identify and take careful steps to reduce all unnecessary Restrictive Practice and closely monitor the use of any remaining restrictions in a transparent and collaborative way. Staff and families, and where possible the person, will train together in the frameworks and strategies to deliver these approaches in line with the Restraint Reduction Network training standards and PBS Alliance Framework.

Care Quality Commission Statement of Purpose

We will provide trained staff to support adults with a learning disability and/or autism or an acquired brain injury in their own homes across a 24hr cycle to meet their needs, as described by the person, the people who represent them and the commissioning authority. The people we support may have a secondary diagnosis of a mental health disorder, physical or sensory disability.

Aims

  • To enable people to be successfully discharged or avoid unnecessary placement breakdown or admission to an inpatient hospital.
  • To provide person centred care in a supportive and dynamic environment.
  • To support the person to lead an active and valued lifestyle that fosters autonomy and independence.

Objectives

  • To facilitate and nurture a valued community presence and active participation within the persons local community.
  • A robust, flexible and skilled staff team, trained and supported to meet the person’s needs and support their aspirations.
  • To be a learning organisation that commits to transparent and collaborative practice.
  • To support people to develop and maintain good physical, mental and emotional health.

Mission and Values

Each identified individual will have a unique support system built around them, from bricks and mortar up through, individual service designs, to matching staff for shared interests.

We will work closely with the person and their supporters to establish and maintain a collaborative approach that uses adaptive communication to share and review aims and actions across systems in an evidenced based way.

The team I work with are amazing, the level of professionalism in the face of difficult situations and their ongoing trust in both the processes and and each other as a working party, is a pleasure to both watch and be involved in. They are a great bunch of people who’s number one priority is the person we support and all who work with him see it as a pleasure, as well as a complex puzzle that is never going to be complete but that we can continue to add pieces to, to create the best possible picture for him and I believe they keep him at the heart of every decision they make.