About the service Avanti Homecare (Ripley) is a care at home service providing the regulated activity of personal care to 19 people at the time of this inspection. The service provides support to older and younger adults with a range of needs. Not everyone who used the service received personal care. CQC only inspects where people receive personal care. This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do, we also consider any wider social care provided.
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 assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it. At the time of the inspection, the location did not care or support for anyone with a learning disability or an autistic person. However, we assessed the care provision under Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture, as it is registered as a specialist service for this population group.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
Right Support: People were involved in the assessment and planning of their care in their own homes. People had choice in how they received their care to meet their needs and preferences. People knew how to raise any concerns and to who. People were supported by staff who had been safely recruited.
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: People received their care at the times they chose. People were supported by staff who valued making a difference to people’s everyday lives. Staff were trained to provide care, taking into account people's choices and promoting their independence. People were supported to access services to maintain their health and wellbeing.
Right Culture: The directors and senior staff were passionate about delivering a high standard of care to people. Staff were competent and confident to deliver good care to people. People were complimentary about the care they received.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
This service was registered with us on 15 June 2020, and this is the first inspection.
Why we inspected
This inspection was prompted by a review of the information we held about this service.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.