Welcome to (SWI) South West Independence Ltd

Residential Care Providers

We provide residential care to adults with complex care needs connected to ASD, Aspergers, Mental Health Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, results of Head Injuries and clients with medical needs such as Epilepsy and Diabetes.

Care Staff Agency

We also facilitate other care providers with professional well trained care staff on a needs basis. Our staff receive appropriate training to enable them to work with young people, adults, the elderly and to assist with domiciliary care.

Training Provisions

We offer training opportunities to other care providers at our training venue in Bridgwater. Our training rooms are also available for private hire.

Our staff

All of our staff are subject to enhanced CRB checks, reference checks and are trained to a high standard as detailed in The National Minimum Standards. We also provide our staff with specific training to meet the needs of our clients.

Some of the the training we provide covers Health & Safety, First Aid, Working with Vulnerable People of all ages, Issues of Sexuality, Anger Management, Protection of Vulnerable Adults, NAPPI, Working with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Working with Epilepsy, Diabetes, Epi-Pen and Mental Health Training. These are just a few of the areas that our staff receive ongoing training with.

The majority of our staff are trained and qualified to use British Sign Language.

Interventions

Our staff are trained to work with clients that display challenging behaviour and we use NAPPI (Non-Abusive Psychological & Physical Intervention) Techniques www.nappiuk.com

CQC

We are fully registered with The Care Quality Commission. You are able to receive information regarding inspections of services, please request a copy of our report by visiting our Contact Us page. Following our recent inspection; our services at Gordon Villa have been graded as 2 - GOOD.

Locality

We are based in Somerset. Some of our clients are from out of county as they have chosen to live in this area.

For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact our Business and Operations Manager: John Holliday on 01278 421844 or mobile 07587130273