A Specialist Residential Care Home for nine adults with learning disabilities and Autism located in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Our History
Silver Springs was the brain child of of a Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse and a Chartered Accountant. The plan was simple… to create a homely and caring environment for people with Learning Disabilities to live in, where they would be supported and encouraged to learn, grow and achieve.
Progress was slow initially. Converting an old disused B&B into a friendly, welcoming and stimulating environment on a limited budget was no easy task. However, with hard work, determination and focus the Silver Springs was opened it the Summer of 1994.
A great deal has changed over the years but our commitment to person-centred care and outcome focused support has only grown with time. We work with various partners including the Hertfordshire Care Providers Association, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust, the Epilepsy Society and Hertfordshire’s Community Learning Disability Teams and local Healthcare Professionals to provide a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
The Home
Silver Springs is a large, two-storey detached house which has been adapted to provide two extensive communal lounges, nine well appointed spacious bedrooms, two shower rooms, two bathrooms, a large kitchen diner and a large enclosed garden.
Bedrooms are decorated according to the taste preferences of the service users prior to them moving in and service users are encouraged to personalise their bedrooms as they wish to. Furniture can be provided and service users are able to bring their own furniture space permitting.
The Home is completely wheelchair accessible and both floors can be accessed via the main stairs or a modern platform lift which is serviced twice annually. The home is fitted with a fully compliant fire alarm system which has detectors throughout the house and is also serviced twice annually. Various Health and Safety checks, tests and audits are carried out on a weekly, monthly, six-monthly, annually and 5 yearly cycle to ensure the Home is safe, secure and compliant with all statutory regulations and is meeting our service contracts with our regulator and our local and placing authorities.
Regulated by Care Quality Commission (CQC)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitor and regulate care organisations who deliver direct personal care in England. The regulator expects these organisations to meet their Fundamental Standards of Quality and Safety.
By inspecting services, the CQC check that they continue to deliver safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. The CQC rate the providers they inspect as either outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate and make these findings publicly available on their website and NHS Choices. Click the CQC here to read more about our registration and view our current and past inspection reports.
Hertfordshire Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT)
We work with all of the Community Learning Disability Teams within Hertfordshire to support the service users that they place with us. The CLDT’s work with adults aged 18 and over who require support from Adult Care Services. The teams consist of social workers, healthcare professionals, psychiatry and mental health and other specialist services. Our Local Authority (LA) within Hertfordshire is Watford and Three Rivers CLDT.
Hertfordshire’s Adult Care Services carry out a Contract Monitoring Visits once a year of all Care Homes and other Social Care Providers in order to monitor and assess the overall outcomes experienced by service users. The report is able to measure the service provision against regional standards.
Silver Springs’ has consistently achieved ratings of “Good” in these visits.
Although most of our referrals have come through the Hertfordshire Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT), we have also partnered up with surrounding London Boroughs including Barnet, Hounslow and Redbridge to offer care and support packages at Silver Springs.
