The Conifers

The Conifers is a specialist based resource, registered to provide living accommodation and care for adults with learning disabilities.

The Conifers bungalow

The home is registered in Fordham with beautiful country views and peaceful surroundings. It is a large bungalow sited within a large garden with a heated swimming pool with patio and a BBQ area.

The bungalow is family size with six client bedrooms, four with en-suite facilities. There is a very spacious kitchen and dining room and a sitting room with French doors opening onto their own private garden.

Within our registered home environment, we plan to offer individually designed, independent flats in which clients can enjoy a unique and personal service built exclusively around their needs and wishes with as much or as little support required within the wider security and support offered by a fully staffed registered home.

The Conifers is staffed according to individual needs and is overseen by the Registered Manager, Gill Oliver and The Deputy Manager Donna Smith who is responsible for the staff team, clients’ welfare in general, and the essential standards of quality and safety. Staff have their own room for sleeping-in. Clients are offered a key to the front door and their own room. Safes and individual lockable cabinets are provided for valuables and the safe storage of medicines in each room.

At The Conifers we maintain high standards of specialised care, creating a beautiful home in wonderful surroundings that offers individual care and encouragement to our clients. The focus here at The Conifers is on self-help skills and activities and clients are encouraged to share in the everyday support of the house, gardens and allotment. Clients may have a history of behaviour that challenges but we believe that they can become more independent and that carefully drawn up communication methods, care plans and activity plans will enable these clients to moderate their behaviour, which in turn, can lead to a greater interaction with their local communities and wider opportunities for development. We focus on social inclusion and starting to build a social context for our clients. We provide a high level of staffing so we can support the clients to manage their expectations, develop tolerance, cope with other people’s behaviour and learn to take experiential and social risks in a controlled manner. Our clients take great pleasure in their achievements and together we carefully plan and break down routines and activities to help them build on their strengths, enthusiasms and interests, enhancing their lives and works towards reaching each individual’s potential. THE CONIFERS FACILITIES   Large private garden with      patio and BBQ area   Heated outdoor swimming      pool and changing room   Garden allotment   Outdoor activities sports      and games   Minibus

ACCOMMODATION  Individual accommodation     is provided for a group of     up to six clients   Large kitchen /diner  Sitting room   1 bathroom   Four bedrooms with      ensuite   Two large bedrooms   Staff accommodation STAFFING Staff levels reflect client needs and are monitored by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and inspected by Essex Placements Team and individual Social Workers. CONTRACTS Short, medium and long term contracts are offered to clients.

ACTIVITIES AND LIFESTYLE

Covid 19 has had a huge effect within the care sector. We maintain our activities and lifestyle to the best of our ability through this period of time, following all government and Public Health England guidelines.

During the Coronavirus pandemic we will be keeping in continuous contact with the clients’ relatives to reassure them of the ways in which we are keeping the clients safe and stimulated. We will also be keeping families up to date with the ways in which they can visit their relative and the changing health and safety protocols we need to put in place when they do so.

Our home is family orientated and focuses on activities that involve families and friends of the clients such as BBQs, pool parties and at the moment outdoor gatherings.

The staff concentrate on each individual’s personal choices and needs. Every step is monitored so that small outcomes can become big.