About the service Vibrance 138 All Saints Road is a care home providing residential respite services. The service provides personal care for to up to 7 people at one time. At the time of our inspection there was one person using the service.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
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.
People received their medicines safely. There were enough staff to meet people’s needs and ensure people were safe. Risk assessments were clear in highlighting potential risks to people. Staff suitability was checked prior to them commencing work. Learning was shared following the occurrence of any incidents or accidents. Infection control processes were effective.
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.
Based on our review of safe and well-led the service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support, right care, right culture.
Right support: People were supported to be as independent as they could be and were supported to make choices about how they received their care
Right care: People received person centred care. Staff respected people’s rights and treated them with privacy and dignity
Right culture: The culture of the service supported people and staff in an inclusive way; enabling people to live their day-to-day lives as they chose to.
The service ran with an inclusive culture which was transparent with people, their relatives and staff. Quality assurance systems were effective in driving improvement across the service. Other parties were consulted to provide feedback about 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 06 February 2020)
Why we inspected
The inspection was prompted in part by notification of a specific incident. The outcome of this could have resulted in a serious risk to a person’s health or wellbeing.
The information CQC received about the incident indicated concerns about the management of specific risks. This inspection examined those risks.
We found no evidence during this inspection that people were at risk of harm from this concern. Please see the safe sections of this full report.
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.
For those key questions not inspected, we used the ratings awarded at the last inspection to calculate the overall rating.
We found no evidence during this inspection that people were at risk of harm from this concern. Please see the safe and well-led sections of this full report.
The provider had taken full action to review and mitigate potential risks and we were satisfied with their response.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Vibrance 138 All Saints Road 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.