About the service: Maple House is a residential care home providing personal care and accommodation for up to three people with a learning disability. At the time of the inspection there were three people living at the service. The home is on a residential street in a community setting and designed to promote people's inclusion and independence.
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee autistic people and people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. Right support, right care, right culture is the statutory guidance which supports CQC to make assessments and judgements about services providing support to people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
People’s experience of using this service:
People told us they liked living at the service and they felt safe there. We saw staff were kind and caring and people, families and health and social care professionals confirmed this.
The service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support, right care, right culture.
Right support: The service provides care that is personalised and maximised people’s choices. People are involved in a range of community activities of their choice. The staff understood the needs of the individual people living at the house and supported them to be as independent as possible.
Right care: Care documentation was person-centred and promoted people’s dignity, privacy and human rights. Staff understood how to support people. They understood their needs, preferences and routines. Appropriate documentation was in place where people’s liberty was restricted.
Right culture: The registered manager supported staff to provide good quality care, through supervision, training and effective team communication. People told us they were happy living at the service, and family members confirmed the leadership were responsive, inclusive and enabled their relatives to live empowered lives.
Safe recruitment took place at the service, and people were safeguarded against the risks of abuse and harm by the systems and by the staff. Risks to people were assessed and mitigated. Staff understood people’s needs and preferences and were able to work safely with the range of risks presented. There were enough staff to meet people’s needs and provide flexible, responsive care.
Medicines were managed safely, and there were infection control processes in place.
The registered manager had effective systems in place to monitor the quality of the service, and the provider carried out additional quality checks as well as providing support and information to the service.
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Rating at last inspection:
The last rating for the service was good (published 26 November 2019).
Why we inspected:
We carried out a focused inspection of this service on 20 July 2022.
This was a planned inspection based on the previous rating. This report only covers our findings in relation to the Key Questions Safe, Effective and Well Led.
We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the Safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance that the service can respond to COVID-19 and other infection outbreaks effectively.
Follow up:
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.