- Care home
The Mount Camphill Community
Report from 15 January 2024 assessment
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
The Mount Camphill Community is a residential home providing accommodation and personal care for 30 people. The service is split into an independent specialist college for people with learning disabilities that provides education and learning for people aged 16 to 25 to promote and develop their independence. This part of the service runs term time only and currently provides residence for 15 people over 4 houses, 3 of which are on site and another at a short walking distance. The other part of the service provides a supported living provision currently providing personal care for 15 people over 3 houses with 2 on the main site and 1 in the nearby village. We carried out on site assessment activity on 23 January 2024. We identified the following good practice: Supporting people to be independent in all aspects of their day to day lives. People chose their own routines and activities that they wanted to take part in. The care and support staff provided was person centred with staff consistently attentive to people’s needs, providing one to one support when needed. We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it.
People's experience of this service
People told us they were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice. People and their loved ones all told us they were actively involved in the planning of their day-to-day schedules and that people’s independence was promoted and encouraged in all aspects of their lives. People were supported to take an active part in their own health and wellbeing and staff were always on hand to promote safety and manage risks. Relatives, advocates and professionals were all involved in planning and delivering support to people. All were complimentary about the service. There was an open and honest atmosphere at the service and a positive relationship had been established with the local community.