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Vacancy News - fourth home acquired!
February 2008 Two new vacancies are available in our autism specific residential care homes, arising as service users have moved on to more independent living or to live closer to family. The vacancy in Apple Tree House previously advertised has now gone but two are available in Hilltop. We are also pleased to announce the acquisition of Stafford Lodge, our fourth residential care home.
Vacancies 1 and 2: Hilltop in Weston-super-Mare, being the third such home under the Company’s ownership, is an eight bed autism specific care home which opened in August 2006. In line with our other homes, Hilltop has been refurbished to a high standard and caters for people who are aged sixteen to forty when they move in. Hilltop has a sensory room and an activity room. The two vacant rooms share a bathroom and are immediately available.
Future vacancies at Stafford Lodge: We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Stafford Lodge in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. Stafford Lodge will be run as a family-style residential care home and has 4 large, fully en-suite bedrooms and a ground floor ‘flatlet’ for semi-independent living arrangement. Comprehensive refurbishment work to bring Stafford Lodge up to the standard of our existing homes is due to start in February. We anticipate it will be open to new service users in late June 2008.
If you are a parent, guardian or social worker looking to place a service user in autism-specific residential care home, please contact Lesley Holmes at our Head Office – click on the Contact Us tab for details.
ABOUT US ... Homes Caring for Autism Ltd currently owns two care homes in Berrow, Somerset, and a third in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. Our first home opened three and a half years ago and our new Head Office, Administration and Training centre opened in May 2006 in Weston-super-Mare.
We specialise in providing quality services to support individuals who are on the Autistic Spectrum. Our philosophy is that our care should be activity-led, integrating the service user as fully as possible into the community. All people who reside within one of Homes Caring for Autism’s homes are within a philosophy of a 'home for life' until or unless it becomes appropriate to move on, for example to a more independent living arrangement. The basic ethos is that a person is enabled to develop and grow: emotionally, educationally, socially and spiritually.
World-leading Autism expert Wendy Lawson is working with us in an on-going consultative role. You can read more about this and Wendy herself by clicking on the "Wendy Lawson" tab.
