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Staff Skill Mix and Staffing Levels
Whickham Villa’s team includes Nurses (RGN & RNLD
Learning Disability), a team of experienced Therapists (Neural
Pathways), Care Assistants, a Diversional Therapist, Therapy
Assistants and Individual Enablers. Our team of enablers
extend our service to clients wide into the community,
providing an unlimited array of social opportunities and
making them accessible as part of their holistic
rehabilitation programmes.
Our team has shared values and a vision to enable our
clients to: -
- Share in existing opportunities in their community
- Make informed choices
- Develop abilities and fulfil their potential
- Be treated with respect and have a valued social role
- Grow and develop in their relationships
Our required statutory staffing ratio is of 1 staff member
to every 4 residents. The staffing levels at Whickham Villa,
however, are client needs driven and bespoke levels of
staffing are provided for individual clients as their needs
dictate. The current staffing levels in operation indicate a
high ratio of 1 staff member to every 1.5 residents. These are
the current staffing levels required to provide the holistic
clinical, therapeutic and rehabilitative needs of each
individual client. Click
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 Whickham Villa is working in
partnership with Neural
Pathways to produce rehabilitation pathways for people
with long-term neurological difficulties. Together we offer
the combination of our professional multidisciplinary skills,
philosophic commitment and enthusiasm to increase the
empowerment and quality of life for people with Neurological
damage and support for their families.
Our Interdisciplinary Team consists of:
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Speech and Language Therapists
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Pathway Facilitator
We believe that the wealth of shared experience in
rehabilitation from both specialist organisations allows our
combined team to make a true difference to the holistic
rehabilitation service and array of choices available for all
our clients and their families.
In addition to the delivery and co-ordination of
Therapeutic services, Neural Pathways are commissioned by
Whickham Villa to provide ongoing staff development and
training, strategic service development and the joint
development and support of quality assurance systems.
A
conscious commissioning decision has been made by Whickham
Villa to maximise the service flexibility Neural Pathways can
provide, as opposed to the employment of in-house therapists.
This means we can deliver a seamless provision of therapy
services, from the same experienced therapy team, as
individual’s progress through Whickham Villa on their
rehabilitation pathway towards appropriate independent
living.
Client Groups and Service User Activity
Levels
Whickham Villa currently provides services to clients with
a wide range of physical and sensory impairments as a result
of neurological difficulties. These difficulties have arisen
from a range of traumatic acquired brain injuries, progressive
disease and disorders, brain haemorrhages and post anaesthetic
injury.
During 2004 the activity levels at Whickham Villa have
witnessed 6 client admissions into the unit and 6 discharges.
Whickham Villa also provides respite services via our
dedicated respite bed. There have been 25 admissions and
discharges into our respite bed during 2004.
The unit has maintained an average occupancy rate of 96%
during 2004.
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