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Community Reablement Team (CRT), Conwy Close, Tilehurst, Reading.

Community Reablement Team (CRT) in Conwy Close, Tilehurst, Reading is a Homecare agencies specialising in the provision of services relating to caring for adults over 65 yrs and personal care. The last inspection date here was 7th February 2020

Community Reablement Team (CRT) is managed by Reading Borough Council who are also responsible for 4 other locations

Contact Details:

    Address:
      Community Reablement Team (CRT)
      Avenue Centre
      Conwy Close
      Tilehurst
      Reading
      RG30 4BZ
      United Kingdom
    Telephone:
      01189373745
    Website:

Ratings:

For a guide to the ratings, click here.

Safe: Good
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Good
Well-Led: Good
Overall: Good

Further Details:

Important Dates:

    Last Inspection 2020-02-07
    Last Published 2017-07-12

Local Authority:

    Reading

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Inspection Reports:

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19th June 2017 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

This was an unannounced inspection which took place on 19 June 2017.

The Community Reablement Team (CRT) is part of the Intermediate Care Service which is delivered in partnership by Reading Borough Council and Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.

CRT provides a short term flexible service for up to 6 weeks, for people who have been assessed as being able to benefit from a reablement programme. The service is delivered in people’s own home or at the intermediate residential care centre. The service was supporting 58 people at the time of this inspection. The number of people supported fluctuates on a daily basis.

At the last inspection the service was rated Good. At this inspection we found the service remained Good.

Why the service is rated Good:

There is a registered manager running the service. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

The CRT continued to offer people a service that was run as safely as possible. The service made sure staff were recruited safely and were suitable to work with the people. Staff understood how to protect people and followed the relevant procedures to keep people as safe as they could. General risks and risks to individuals were identified and action was taken to reduce them. People were supported to take their medicines safely, at the right times and in the right amounts by trained and competent staff.

The service remained effective. People’s health and well-being needs were met by staff who were appropriately trained and responsive to people’s rapidly changing needs. The service worked with health and other professionals to ensure they met people’s needs in the most effective way. People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible, the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.

The service continued to be caring and responsive. The staff team were committed and provided positive care with kindness and respect. Care staff were knowledgeable and responsive and helped people to regain as much of their independence as possible.

The service continued to be well led. The registered manager was described as highly supportive, approachable and responsive. The quality of care the service provided was assessed and reviewed regularly and improved, as necessary.

2nd May 2013 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

During our previous inspection of the service in January 2013 we had indentified that the service was not meeting requirements in three areas of the 'Essential Standards of Quality and Safety'. We asked that improvements were made. During the inspection in May 2013 we found that changes and improvements had been made.

We found that people who used the service were involved in developing their care plans and signed to agree their care and treatment. One relative we spoke with told us “The care staff are wonderful and really support my husband and I” and “The equipment I needed to support my husband was arranged and put in place very quickly, which made the whole situation easier to bear”.

People’s care and welfare was protected because their care plans highlighted the exact care and treatment they required and included risk assessments where necessary. One person told us “Nothing is too much trouble and I could not speak more highly of the staff. They help me with everything I need”.

We found staff were recruited and supported appropriately. There were processes in place to ensure staff were suitably qualified or experienced before starting work. Staff we spoke with told us that they had been well supported through the recruitment and induction process.

People’s views were listened to and acted upon. The service managers reviewed the feedback on a monthly basis and issues or concerns were dealt with swiftly.

23rd January 2013 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

We found people’s views and experiences were sometimes taken into account in the way the service was provided and delivered in relation to their care. However, people were not always provided with appropriate information.

People did not always experience care, treatment and support that met their needs and ensured their safety and welfare. This was because the care plans were not person centred and were sometimes missing at the initial visits to people using the service.

We saw that all staff had received safeguarding training. People who use the service were protected from the risk of abuse because the provider had taken reasonable steps to identify the possibility of abuse and prevent abuse from happening.

People were cared for by staff who were supported to deliver care and treatment safely and to an appropriate standard. People we spoke with told us they were cared for by well trained staff.

People who use the service and staff were not routinely asked for their views about care and treatment. We found that the provider did not have an effective system to regularly assess and monitor the quality of service that people receive.

1st January 1970 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

This inspection took place on 28 and 31 July 2015 and was announced. Community Reablement (CRT) is a specialised domiciliary care service which is part of a local authority intermediate care team. This means they work with other social work and health care professionals to provide an integrated service. The service seeks to assist people to regain their independence after hospitalisation. They provide a short term 24 hour, seven day a week service of up to six weeks, to mainly older people in their own homes.

The service is required to have a registered manager. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

People told us they felt care staff were completely trustworthy. They said they always felt safe when using the service. Staff had been properly trained and knew how to protect people in their care. There were enough staff who had been safely recruited to provide appropriate care to people.

People’s rights were protected by staff who understood the Mental Capacity Act (2005). The Mental Capacity Act 2005 legislation provides a legal framework that sets out how to act to support people who do not have capacity to make a specific decision. Care staff understood consent issues and people told us they made their own decisions. People’s capacity to make decisions was recorded and appropriate paperwork was included in care plans.

People had their needs met by staff who were well trained and had the knowledge and skills required to give people personalised care.

People told us they were very happy with the care they received. They described the staff as respectful and caring and the care as very good to excellent. The service respected people and staff’s diversity.

The service was well managed and the registered manager had made improvements to the service since her appointment. The service worked closely with their other colleagues in the intermediate care team to try to make sure people had the best chance of regaining or retaining as much of their independence, as possible.

 

 

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