Sensory impairment service
The Home Care Sensory Impairment team provides specialist social care support to vulnerable sensory impaired people e.g. Deaf, Deaf/Blind, Visually Impaired, Blind, who wish to remain in their own home and live independently within the community.
Service ethos
To provide home care to vulnerable adults in accordance with Standard 9 of the National Minimum Standards for Domiciliary Care that state that home care should seek to:
- Enable service users to make decisions in relation to their own lives, providing information, assistance, and support where needed
- encourage, enable and empower service users to control their personal finances unless prevented from doing so by severe mental incapacity or disability
- carry out tasks with the service users, not for them, minimizing the intervention and supporting service users to take risks, as set out in the service users operational plan, and without endangering health and safety ensure that service users, and their relatives and representatives are kept informed about the service they receive
Types of services provided
The team provides home care packages that can include all or some of the following elements
Personal care
Where no nursing procedures or attention is required as part of an overall care plan, whilst ensuring that religious, cultural and gender needs are met and personal dignity and privacy are maintained.
Communication
Communicating with service users, maintaining contact with family including reading, writing correspondence, assisting with travel plans, using appropriate language which includes British Sign Language and Deaf Blind Manual.
Social care
- Acting as an Escort/Guide
- Attending case conferences and other meetings as required facilitating general support to the service user
- Encouraging service users to make full use of statutory and voluntary services in the community, including recreational and social opportunities
- Demonstrate the ability to understand the importance of enabling and maximising service user independence
- Demonstrate the ability to support service users emotionally
Household tasks
- Give appropriate support with cooking meals in the absence of a meal service
- Give appropriate support with local shopping for food and other household essentials
- Assist with washing and ironing as necessary
- Assist with bed making
- Assist to carry out tasks to maintain the warmth and cleanliness of the service users house
- Give appropriate support to undertake the collection of pensions and local payments as detailed in the care plan
- Assist to maintain as far as possible a safe environment
- Staff will undertake the above tasks taking account of any religious, cultural or dietary needs
Contact us
For further information and advice please contact adult social care
This page was last updated on 05 December 2011