Giving young people, leaving care, the help and care they need to live independently...
About us
Care Hubz is a brand-new provision providing mid to long term residential care for vulnerable children with emotional, behavioural difficulties and associated complex needs. Enabling them to have the best possible quality of life in a community residential setting.
We are developing a great reputation for providing specialised care for young people with challenging behaviours in 24-hour supervised housing setting.
Our service is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, including national and public holidays. We provide services during the day, sleep over services and/or waking nights.
Our key objectives are:
1. Promote independence through tailored support by focusing on each young person’s individual care plan in cooperation with their designated social worker.
2. Ensuring safety, stability, and security for all our service users.
3. Providing a safe, secure, and private environment which promotes equality.
4. Encourage health and well-being through exercise and healthy eating
5. Develop regular routines by encouraging community events, curfews and monthly house meetings where young people can express their views and wishes.
6. Provide training in several areas to develop independence skill such as cooking, cleaning, healthy eating, personal hygiene, household maintenance, gardening – including growing own fruit and vegetables -, budgeting, applying, and maintaining benefits.
Our work is underpinned by;
- The UN convention on the Rights of the Child
- The ‘Every Child Matters’ Agenda
1. Being healthy
2. Enjoying & Achieving
3. Achieve economic well-being
4. Staying safe
5. Making a positive contribution
- Trauma informed care, delivered through the PACE Training Model.
- Team Teach Training
- AQA Trained staff
Our Mission
“Our mission is to meet the identified needs of each child and young person in our care, thereby helping them overcome their difficulties, by providing them with skills they need to lead a healthy, happy and fulfilling life”.
Our Vision
Is to be true to our philosophy and be dedicated in providing a range of high-quality services to ‘Looked After Children’, enabling them to learn, develop and reach their full potential.
Our ethos
Care Hubz subscribes to a holistic and family approach with a view to providing a warm, nurturing, stable environment for the young people we care for. This is designed to positively promote the well-being and safety of ‘Looked After Children’ and young people for whom residential care is the best option.
Our History
Care Hubz was founded by the director of Youth Hubz after a successful 3 years within the 16+ sector.
Care Hubz is a private limited company, a sister to Youth Hubz and Barkers properties. Care Hubz specialises in the provision of Ofsted-registered children’s homes in West Yorkshire area.
The sister companies:
Youth Hubz
Care Hubz
Barkers Properties
Service Objective
Care Hubz is an equal opportunities employer committed to anti-discriminatory practise and ensuring that young people are treated as individuals and preferences treated with respect. It is the objective of our service to ensure that there shall be no discrimination towards young people, staff, or visitors for any reason of age, race or ethnic origin, creed, colour, religion, political affiliations, disability or impairment, marital status, parenthood, sexual gender, or sexual orientation.
We aim to deliver and maintain an outstanding service, provide quality support for young people with challenging behaviour and emotional needs to empower them to achieve independence. Deliver a service where young people feel safe, secure, and valued. Subsequently, we address wider support needs and encourage opportunities for personal development and achievement within the ‘Every Child Matters’ outcome framework and in accordance with the Children Act 1989, 2000 and 2004 (in addition to any relevant government or statutory regulations and guidance).
- To create a ‘sense of home’ through stable accommodation.
- Placing the needs of young people at the heart of our service. Including them in the design and delivering process to encourage the feedback and get them involved in decision making process and house activities.
- To provide a structured, stimulating, caring and safe environment that is free from prejudice and discriminatory behaviour.
- Respect their privacy and confidentiality.
- Create an environment that young people feel empowered. Giving them the opportunity to be listened to, express their wishes, needs and feelings.
- Provide a service withing the equality framework, ensuring that the diversity of young people is respected and their right to make informed choices.
- Encouraging young people to develop their individual identity and a positive self-image.
- Maintain and support young people in promoting, health, educational and personal needs.
- Provide skills and knowledge to access support in wider community.
- Encourage and enable young people to develop/maintain positive relationships with their peers, family/carer and the wider community.
- Ensure staff are hired through the safer recruitment framework, so we have a high-quality work force.
- Ensure the workforce is receiving regular training and supervisions to be held monthly to ensure the development of skills and confidence.
- To develop strong partnerships with local authorities and professionals.
- To record and evidence all outcomes achieved through our service.
Workforce
Here at Care Hubz we believe staff are vital to ensure the smooth delivery of our service.
We recognise the need for carers with a special mix of personal qualities, experience, skills, and knowledge, who are professionally committed, effectively trained and properly supported to deliver therapeutic care. All carers joining the company are subject to a six-month probation.
We have a dedicated HR Team that proactively manages employee engagement and measures staff performance. All our staff are supported and trained to manage the workload. We ensure this by carrying out monthly supervisions and annual appraisals.
Our staff have regular training both internally and externally with annual refreshers. Below are some examples of training provided:
- Introduction to residential children home
- Safeguarding
- Care Planning
- Lone working
- Risk Management and Safer Caring
- Reporting and Recording.
- De-escalation and managing challenging behaviours
- PACE Training
- AQA Training
- Basic Food and Hygiene
- Understanding and working with relevant legislations
- Child Protection
- Sexual Exploitation
- Criminal Exploitation
- Health and Safety
- Team Teach – therapeutic holds
- Fire awareness training
- Fire Extinguisher training
- FGM
- COSHH
- Manual Handling
- Infection Control
- General Data Protection Regulations
- Radicalisation and Extremism
- Equality and Diversity
Policies and procedures
Care Hubz has a robust and comprehensive set of policies and procedures that support best practise and legislative requirements. There are reviewed annually to ensure consistency and relevance.
Insurance Cover
Our staff members are fully ensured through employer’s liability insurance cover and full public liability insurance, proportionate with the level and extent of activities undertaken.
Our flagship home in leeds has 3 bedrooms for residents (with en-suite bathrooms), an open plan living/dining area, a fully-fitted kitchen, an office, an en-suite bedroom for night staff, a utility room and a landscaped garden.
- To provide a safe environment
- To support & prepare
- To develop & encourage
- To be honest & transparent
- To provide a safe environment
- To support & prepare
- To develop & encourage
- To be honest & transparent
