Woodend House
Woodend home is situated in a beautiful rural location, ideally placed to care for young people aged 6+ who require a high level of emotional support. The home enables young people who have difficulty regulating their emotions to express, explore and develop.
Our home in a rural village has a big garden to have fun, create play, keep active, enjoy the fresh air, as well as having sensory input opportunities and provides a safe place. We have a unique sensory indoor space that allows the children to play, move, and or enjoy the sensory lighting to help them co-regulate. The lowrisk environment linked with the diverse and experienced staff team enables the children to have space for reflection, growth and to build coping mechanisms doing so in a safe environment as well as 1-1 supportive engagement. This helps to firm up their sense of self and feel confident in their identity.
Strong Routine filled days places the child and their needs at the centre of everything we do. Children participation is a key element to creating and developing their time with us, as well as helping them understand and cope with daily life whilst learning and growing.
Close links with school help and support the continuum of care and support to the children.
This home accepts long-term placements and assessment placements. Time bounded placements help a child and all involved in their care to build the necessary supports around their identified needs, at home over the longterm with family or foster carers.
- Modern external sensory/play room in the garden. This space includes sensory play/lighting options, ball pit/slide, space for playing with toys, safe space tent, pool table, punch bag, or in just listening to music with sensory lighting.
- 3 shared living areas for dining, relaxing and playing, and safe access to the home computer. Individually decorated en-suite bedrooms
- Large fenced private garden for safe play with bikes, playing football, outdoor sports/games, swings, trampoline, as well as having picnic tables
- Dedicated staff team for 1:1 working
Our Aspirations
- To create an environment that is stimulating, safe and where progress and development is encouraged and supported through play, nurture, encouragement and in creating opportunity.
- To get the children active, healthy and use the outside space or sensory space to support this work and approach. Individually tailored Activities (groups/ clubs) can help with the child’s identity development, as well as promoting socialisation and in encouraging friendships. Shared activities, builds trust which forms and maintains relationships. We want the children to benefit from positive safe adults.
- To help Children cope in the world, find their answers, unlock their potential, develop life skills/independence skills and enjoy their life
- To have the skills to best support young people: to listen hard, to identify views and beliefs and help young people to understand themselves better.
- To demonstrate our commitment to family time/family involvement and in transitions. Working together, sharing goals and achievements with all involved with a young person is healthy, it validates their importance.
Therapy in the home
Forming positive relationships and providing safety are at the centre of our therapeutic care. From this nurturing foundation children can begin to see the world through a new lens to make positive and lasting changes in their lives.
All our care teams are trained in attachment and trauma informed care, meaning children’s complex needs and behaviours are understood and addressed at an emotional and physiological level. These developmental deficits are worked with relationally within the care home environment.
