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Grove Social Care provide quality supported accommodation to young people

Grove Social Care is passionate about the young people that we are fortunate enough to support. Our Senior Management and many staff have years of experience in supporting young people in supported living environments, as well as in sports teams and youth projects. We place young people at the heart of what we do – we listen and respect what they have to say, respect their rights and hopes for the future and are committed to keeping them safe and addressing their needs. Our ethos is to be supportive, nurturing and understanding.

  • We seek to provide accommodation that is homely, comfortable, well-maintained and safe – saying “its our house – but your home”. We want young people to feel happy in and proud of their home.
  • We seek to provide motivated, trained, capable staff who are genuine, friendly, caring, flexible, able to build good relationships with young people; who are good role models and can work together, including with other agencies to offer the best support and opportunities to young people.
  • From this secure base environment, we seek to support young people, via our “My Life” programme to build effective support networks and develop independent living skills that will support and give them confidence in their future pathway.

Grove Social Care can provide you fully trained, experienced, flexible, committed staff.

To ensure we supply the best staff, our staff are required to attend our mandatory professional training with our highly experienced trainers (who have been in the  industry for over 20 years) to pass on their experience and knowledge of the role covering a wide range of topics. Staff will also complete shadow shifts before working for us to gain some hands-on experience of what to expect on the job.

Our comprehensive compulsory training program covers the following areas:

Safeguarding

Managing Challenging Behaviour

Health and Safety Risk Assessment

Safer Caring / Allegations

First Aid

Food Safety

Recording and Evidencing

GDPR

We also provide specialist training if required such as:

                • Equality and Diversity
                • Supported Living Life skills and outcomes
                • Self Harm/Ligatures
                • ADHD & Autism
                • Child Sexual Exploitation
                • Drugs
                • Internet Safety
                • Epilepsy Awareness
                • Safe handling of Medication
                • UASC’s

Our Properties

Our homes provide welcoming, nurturing environments, with privacy, space and staffing levels that are tailored around supporting young people to achieve their potential, despite challenges (e.g. 1:1, 2:1 if needed for a time). Our homes are well maintained, quality assured and well equipped (including new white goods with each new admission). Young people have a key to the front door and they also have a lockable, single bedroom.

Out of hours, we provide local, 24/7 ‘on-call’ emergency response services staffed by managers. Our teams can respond quickly to the service needs and are very experienced in working closely with Emergency Duty Teams.  We can take emergency/short notice admissions as our staff are skilled and experienced in making the transition smooth for young people who are admitted from secure environments, placement breakdowns in other provisions, or when emergency safeguarding or need to relocate, situations are required.

On arrival, young people are provided with a Home/Welcome guide and are inducted into our service where they will be informed of house rules, emergency contacts, evacuation procedures and safety.  Part of making young people feel at home and welcome involves staff assisting them to purchase items to help personalise their homes, helping to develop a sense of ownership.

Trusted By Local Authorities

List of Authorities we work with:

  • Cambridgeshire
  • D2N2 (Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Derby City, Derbyshire)
  • Doncaster
  • Hartlepool
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Peterborough
  • Wakefield
  • Fully Ofsted Registered
  • Support Local Authorities with planned and emergency placements
  • Placements from framework agreements and spot purchases
  • References from current placing authorities
  • Young person centred approach
  • Bespoke support packages
  • Providing Positive Opportunities for Young People
  • Preparing young people for future independence
  • Working closely with local authorities to safeguard young people
  • Detailed Individualised Placement Plans and Risk Assessments
  • Regular Reports sent to placing authorities.
  • All staff recruited following strict safer recruitment policy
  • Professional in-house training
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‘We have been working closely with Grove Social Care for around two years now and have been impressed at the standard of the staff they are able to supply at short notice or in a planned way, over the large geographical area we operate in. We have also had in excess of fifty staff, who have filled both support worker and managerial roles as part of a temp to perm arrangement.’

‘I just wanted to provide some positive feedback for your member of staff RS. He has been working with a YP in Lincolnshire recently and has gone above & beyond to help him find work or a course to support him into work. He has made calls & enquiries & provided detailed updates of how these can be achieved. He has also stayed late to cover a part shift when someone else was running late. He really has shown some great enthusiasm for the job.’

‘What sets Grove Social Care apart is the ethos of the support workers. Due to the nature of our business, our levels of commissioned support fluctuates significantly throughout the year, which means we may need to use agency staff during high demand, especially around the holiday periods. We feel at ease that when we contact Grove, the support worker who carries out the shift will be child centred and will want to do their very best to engage with the young person.’

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Second Floor Suite
14-16 Cowgate
Peterborough
PE1 1NA