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Supported Living
Supporting Your Best Life
We provide person-centered support that helps people to live as independently and safely as possible in the community and in a place that they can call home. We support adults aged 18+ with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, acquired brain injuries, physical disabilities, and more.
With a focus on individual needs and individual potential, our services do more than just supporting you to live independently, our goal is to support you to live your best life.
What Is Supported Living?
Supported living is a type of care designed to help people live as independently as possible, while still receiving the support they need to live their best lives. Individuals will usually live in supported housing that is shared accommodation or self contained and have choice and control over the level of support that suits them. Support can cover things like personal care, managing finances, accessing education, work, or volunteering, integrating into the community, and other daily personal living activities.
The Purpose of Supported Living is
To support the individual to live as independently as possible.
To achieve choice and control in all matters that may affect their personal life.
To develop independent and personal skills.
To empower the individual towards personal growth and achievement.
To achieve flexibility and freedom in everyday life.
To allow the individual to fully exercise their rights and responsibilities.
To support the individual to safely be a part of their community.
To help the individual to find a place they can call home.
To support an individual to feel as comfortable as possible in their own home.
What support looks like with us - our service user guide
Built On Core Values
Compassionate by nature! Compassionate towards your needs and supportive in our approach with your needs at the center of our care.
Aspiring to bring the best out in you! Our goals is for you to live your best life whilst living as independently as possible, with choice and control.
Respectful of your individual needs and sympathetic in our understanding of everyone's unique differences.
Encouraging you to live life to the fullest! We'll encourage you to grow, learn, and achieve and we'll be your biggest advocates along the way.
Guided by Key Principles
Right support
Model of care and setting maximises people’s choice, control and independence.
Right care
Care is person-centred and promotes people’s dignity, privacy and human rights
Right culture
Ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of leaders and care staff ensure people using services lead confident, inclusive and empowered lives
Supported Living Process
Below is an example of the process that you may go through in finding a new home in one of our Supported Living services.
Step 1
Get in contact with either one of our Supported Living registered area managers Lee Betterman or Tracey Found to discuss your interest.
Step 2
Your social worker will arrange another meeting with us to discuss our vacancies, to arrange initial assessment and other details to figure out what the best home for you may be. If we have vacancies in the properties of your interest we will arrange viewings, if we don't you may get put on to a waiting list until we do have a space.
Step 3
You will come and have a viewing at the property or properties that you are interested in to see where you may like to live. We will show you around the property and answer any questions you may have.
Step 4
Once you have found a home you would like to move into your social worker will begin to sort out funding arrangements.
Step 5
The next step would be to connect with our partnered housing providers to sort out your tenancy agreements.
Step 6
Set a move in date and start your journey in your new home!
Supported Living Success Stories
Contact Information
Supported Living Registered Area Manager
Tracey Found
Email: traceyfound@northamcaretrust.co.uk
Telephone: 01237 427185
Rose Hill Community Projects
Heywood Road
Bideford EX39 3PG
Supported Living Registered Area Manager
Lee Betterman
Email: leebetterman@northamcaretrust.co.uk
Telephone: 01237 427185
Rose Hill Community Projects
Heywood Road
Bideford EX39 3PG