Floating Housing Support Service
Introduction
The Care Co-ops Housing Support Service provides regular structured support to people with mental health support needs living in their own homes. This support involves one or more visits per week from a designated Housing Support Worker and is flexible according to an individual’s needs. Types of support offered include:
- Support in managing administrative tasks, e.g. sorting out benefits, filling in forms, responding to letters, budgeting.
- Support in managing daily living tasks, cooking, cleaning, shopping.
- Support with accessing community resources such as libraries, shops and advice centres, and developing social contacts.
- Supporting with attending appointments and making referrals to other agencies that provide relevant services.
- Support in managing mental health problems.
The overriding aim of the Floating Housing Support Service is to empower the people using the service to become independent in their way of living and for them to move forward and achieve a good quality of life.
The Housing Service Practice
The Floating Housing Service works in a way that reflects and understands the fluctuations of people’s abilities and emotional states. The service works alongside its service users at a pace that is suitable to them and does so in developing skills for them to live independently. We follow a practice where we offer more support at the points when it is needed and to move back when less support is required. All staff within the Care Co-ops Housing Support Team are trained to a high, professional standard and have the ability to employ a wide range of approaches in given situations depending upon the service user’s own individual needs. We aim to continue to develop our learning and understanding and put these methods into practice where it is appropriate.
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