St Antony's Care Home

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• Overview
• Kindness, compassion and dignity
• Treating people as individuals
• Independence, choice and control
• Responding to people’s immediate needs
• Workforce wellbeing and enablement

For those quality statements not inspected, we used the scores awarded at the last inspection to calculate this key questions rating. The overall rating for the service remains good. People were supported to have choice and control and make decisions about how their support was provided. They were encouraged and helped by staff to do as much as they could for themselves, to maintain their independence. People were supported to understand their rights and how the service would make sure these were respected.

This service scored 75 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.

We did not look at Kindness, compassion and dignity during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Caring.

We did not look at Treating people as individuals during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Caring.

People told us staff respected their right to make informed choices and to be as independent as they were willing and capable of safely being. A person said, “I like to clean my own bedroom and have a shower by myself, which the staff know is my choice and respect. I do feel free to do as I please at the home, within reason of course.” Another person added, “I can choose what I do and don’t do here. For example, I can choose when I get up and go to bed, what clothes I wear and the meals I eat.”

Staff were aware of the importance of supporting people in a way that promoted their independence, choice, and control. Staff told us they encouraged people to maintain their independence and described ways in which they did this. A member of staff said, “[Name of service user] is able to prepare their own tea and have a shower.”

We observed staff respect people’s right to make informed choices. For example, we saw staff prepare and offer people different meals they could choose to eat for their lunch. We observed staff support people to maintain their independent living skills. For example, we saw staff on several occasions actively encourage people who were willing and capable of safely eating their own meals or walking around the care home without the need for any staff assistance to do so.

People were encouraged and supported to do as much as they could for themselves to maintain and develop their independent living skills. People’s care plans reflected this enabling approach and set out clearly people’s dependency levels and what they were willing and capable of doing for themselves safely, and what they needed additional staff support with.

We did not look at Responding to people’s immediate needs during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Caring.

We did not look at Workforce wellbeing and enablement during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Caring.