Working at St Anthony

No structured activities programme or coordinator, so the role is mostly routine personal care with people just choosing what to do.

People could engage in whatever activities they chose. The registered manager described how people’s choices were respected... (person) wanted to go swimming but then did not want to go. He now goes to gym.

Enough staff during the day, but nights covered by just two awake staff which they plan to increase.

night time staffing numbers... assessed as 2 waking staff... If there were a need for 1 to 1 support at night then an additional staff member would be deployed... provider told us they would immediately implement 3 permanent staff member at night.

Only standard training with some refreshers like safeguarding every two years instead of yearly.

We questioned why some training refreshers for example, safeguarding and autism awareness, were only carried out bi-annually. The training manager said that would review this in accordance with best practice.