What Is Complex Care?
Complex care is a type of healthcare that supports and empowers people with life long health conditions that affect every day living. This can also includes Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism.
Examples of chronic conditions include Brain Injury's, Neurological Disorders, Learning or Physical Disabilities, Autism, Sensory Disorders, Epilepsy, Breathing Difficulties and Dementia.
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Complex care can differ from domiciliary care as it is more specialized. Complex care require us to work in partnership with other health care professionals. It often requires the use of specialized equipment, extensive medical management and frequent monitoring of vital signs.
What types of complex care do we provide?
Visiting care
Visiting care consists of daily slots that work around you and your lifestyle, all while being personalised and supporting you independence.
Who is Complex care for?
Anyone who has chronic or long term health conditions will benefit from person centred complex care
Empowering Support Services Ltd has extensive experience in delivering complex care. Complex care encompasses a range of disabilities and life long conditions. These include Learning Disabilities, Autism, Dual Diagnosis's in Mental Health, Down Syndrome and all disabilities that impact on daily living.
Here's some health conditions Empowering Support Services already supports;
Brain injury
Epilepsy
Dementia
Cancer
Catheter care
What funding is available for complex care?
Funding for complex care primarily comes from "CHC" or Continuing Healthcare. This is funding allocated from the NHS so individual's can continue to live independently. The funding can cover the full costs of the care the an individual needs. The funding can be used for home care or if needed, a care home or supported living.
Other funding includes;
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Direct payment - Is a funding where the care receiver can choose who they want to have care for them. They will given an account from the local authority that is topped up. They will then personally pay the care provider they have chosen.
Social care funding from the Local Authority - This is when the local authority pay the care provider directly on behalf of the individual.
Personal Health Budget (PHB) - This funding is similar to direct payments, but is specifically for healthcare needs, rather than social care.
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Home care for adults with Learning Disabilities
Empowering Support Services Ltd is a specialised care provider in Maidstone that has acquired years of experience in supporting adults with Learning Disabilities.
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Learning disability care focuses on providing tailored made support to individuals who have intellectual impairments. Empowering Support Services Ltd focuses on an holistic approach. Adults are supported with communication needs, developing life skills and accessing the community. Home care for adults with learning disabilities is achievable and aims to enrich their life's and learn to be more independent.
Cooking, daily house chores, internet use and personal care is often required when supporting adults with learning disabilities. Accessing the community and safeguarding can be challenging, with support, the individual can can live a more engaged and fulfilled life.
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"We have over 20 years combined experience"
Our experience in working with Learning Disabilities
Christopher and Amie have worked and supported people with complex needs, in fact, its how we started!
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Amie started her caring journey over 20 years ago supporting adults with Learning Disabilities who require complex care. Amie progressed her career to becoming a manager of a supported living complex for adults with Learning Disabilities. Amie would later be sign posted to a forensic mental health home that required new leadership.
Christopher chose to pursue a career in care shortly after his father passing away. Christopher had helped care for his step mum who had terminal cancer at a young age. These life changes inspired him to start his journey. His first entry into healthcare was a registered care home for elderly with learning disabilities. Christopher has gained over 10 years experience working with a range of complex needs from epilepsy to schizophrenia.
Behaviours that challenge
What is "challenging behaviour?"
"Challenging behaviour" is an outdated term that has been criticized as having negative connotations. Behaviours that challenge is now the accepted term and describes an individual who has complex care needs and has behaviours that can cause harm to themselves or others. It can include aggression, destructive behaviours, self-harm or intense repetitive behaviours that can impact their daily living.
Supporting behaviours that challenge
Dysregulated behaviour will often fall under the bracket of complex care. The individual will often need support and a complex care plan that is bespoke and individual to the person and their needs.
Caring for someone at home who has behaviours that challenge can be very distressing for both carer and care receiver. Empowering Support Services Ltd is trained, experienced and dedicated to working in partnership
with the family to allow them respite.