We currently support children and adults in Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Wheathampstead and the surrounding areas.
Within our Registered Care homes, we provide care and support for adults with learning disabilities.
One house in St Albans is dual registered, providing accommodation, care, nursing and support for up to 12 people with learning and physical difficulties.
Our staff receive training in subjects including safeguarding, health and safety, medicines, and specific health conditions including epilepsy, and we ensure the people we support have access to health and social care professionals when required, including GPs, occupational therapists, chiropodists and psychiatrists.
I am always involved in the planning and care of my relative. If there are any concerns, the staff team ring me or email me, and vice versa.
– A relative
I think the home is very well managed. The staff are dedicated and care of the residents is first and foremost with them.
– A relative
In Supported Living in Hertfordshire we support over 40 adults with a learning disability or autism. We adopt a person centred approach; taking time to get to know each individual and what is important to them. People who draw on support are encouraged to express their views and be actively involved in decision making about their care and support.
The MacIntyre Our Voice project is an ambitious three-year initiative designed to engage and connect adults with learning disabilities and autistic people in South West Hertfordshire. At its core, this project focuses on amplifying people’s voices.
We know from our wider community work that when people come together and engage in creative activities they grow in confidence and ability. Our Voice will provide people with these opportunities, co-produced with everyone involved, and drawing on the connections of local community groups.
With approximately 21,000 people with learning disabilities living in Hertfordshire, Our Voice strives to ensure every individual feels valued and heard, whether or not they currently receive support from MacIntyre.
Our next step is to recruit someone with lived experience to join the team.
Laura Horn is our Project Engagement Coordinator.
With a background as a Dance and Community Arts practitioner, Laura will draw on her existing Hertfordshire contacts and develop new ones with people and communities in the area to co-create a range of opportunities, connecting people, places and activities.
Laura's ambition for the project is to empower people with learning disabilities to co-create and make change.
Kathryn Yates is our Culture and Communities Manager.
Kathryn plays a leading role in MacIntyre's Everyone Everywhere initiative, together with the Warrington Great Communities Project. Before this, Kathryn led MacIntyre's Shared Lives provision.
She is excited to be working alongside existing groups as well as co-developing new spaces to bring people together.
We have one children’s home in Hertfordshire providing 24/7 care and support for up to six children, including one emergency placement.
The mission of the children’s home at Woodland View is to support the children and young people in acquiring skills and experiences, so that they may take their rightful place in society, feel valued and are contributing members of society. We aim to stabilise the lives of young people that come to live with us, and develop their potential.
Woodland View offers a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the children we care for can develop the skills and confidence necessary to help them fulfil their potential. We provide individualised and child centred approaches, and work with each young person to build a bespoke package of care.
Woodland View is rated Good by Ofsted. The recent report found
Staff help children to work towards simple and achievable independence targets. Staff encourage children to make choices about their care. One child who struggled to have her hair brushed and washed, now allows staff to help her with daily haircare. This is good progress for the child. Children achieve important targets, to increase their independence and well-being.
You will find more information, including the full Ofsted Report and Statement of Purpose, here.
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