1 December 2023
During an inspection looking at part of the service
Livability Keefield is a 'care home' providing accommodation and nursing or personal care to up to 10 people. The service provides support to people with a learning disability and autistic people. At the time of our inspection there were 10 people using the service. The service consists of 2 bungalows each accommodating 5 people.
People’s experience of the service and what we found:
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessment and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it.
Right Support
Staff focused on people’s strengths and promoted what they could do, so people had a fulfilling and meaningful everyday life. Staff supported people with their medicines in a way that promoted their independence and achieved the best possible health outcome. There was enough staff to meet people’s needs safely. People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.
Right Care
Observations in the care home were positive and people had good relationships with staff at the service. Staff had received safeguarding training and understood how to protect people from abuse and avoidable harm.
Right Culture
The ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of the registered manager and service delivery team and the support staff ensured people using services lead confident, inclusive, and empowered lives. There were systems in place to monitor the quality of the services provided and a culture of improvement had become embedded in the service.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
The last rating for this service was Good (Published 13 February 2018).
Why we inspected
This inspection was prompted by a review of the information we held about this service.
We undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well-led only. For those key questions not inspected, we used the ratings awarded at the last inspection to calculate the overall rating.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Livability Keefield on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Follow Up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.