“Support work helps a client live their best life”
“We’re a really diverse team. We’ve got Support Workers from Nepal, Spain, Nigeria, Romania. Oh, it’s good – the meals we have! Everybody’s embraced the diversity.
As a Deputy Manager, I care as much about our individual workers, as I do about our clients. We’re a big service with 28 staff. It’s a good team, a lovely team. It’s a bit like a family.
They really do care about the clients. And that’s good for clients. They’ve got compassion and resilience. They want them to feel their home is their home. They’re very proactive in what clients need and want. They want positive outcomes for them.
Support work helps a client live their best life. Without Support Workers their lives can be a lot smaller.”
Southdown manages supported living services across Sussex. Supported living is where an individual owns or rents their own home and has control over the support they get and how they live their lives.
Accommodation and support is provided separately. It can be very different for different people. For one person, supported living might be a few hours of support a week to enable them to live independently by themselves in a rented flat. For another it may be around the clock support in a shared house or self-contained flat.
To read more about our Supported Living Services, click here.