About Us  Point House

 

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We provide accommodation and care for adults with a learning difficulty and opened in 1980.

 

Point House is a family run business, and open in 1980, Sarah the manager grew up with the clients in a small family home, along side her parents. Sarah attended the Blyth Jex school. Sarah’s and her family lived just round the corner before Point House opened. Sarah’s parents have always been passionate about helping people with learning difficulty, and mental health. Then they investigated what they could do, and Point House was born.

 

We have been running for over 42 years, we maintain Point House as a family, friendly working environment as we possibly can. We make sure everybody respects that this is the client’s home.

 

We involve our clients as much as possible in all aspects of Point House, including the daily running and maintaining of the home. We believe that everyone should take control over their lives, be an active part in the group dynamics of the home and contribute in their own way.

 

We have a large diverse group of clients here at Point House, so this means everyone has differing needs, and what suits one person may not suit another or be appropriate. This is why we believe that person centred care, made individually and not one size fits all is the way forward, to allow our lovely clients  to grow, develop, and become as independent and in charge of their own lives as possible. We want all our clients to have a voice, and their voice will be heard.

This is very important to us, and them.

 

We have a nice little courtyard in the back garden, we call it our Zen garden, with bamboo trees, lots of lovely flowers, with a patio area with tables, chairs and umbrellas. We have a barbecue which we use throughout the summer months. We eat our lunch outside on warm days © we try to make it a magical sacred place to relax and enjoy. We have outdoor games, which are fun, Some of our clients love to do the gardening, also enjoys planting seeds and caring for them as they grow into flowers. One of our clients loves weeding and maintaining Point House ‘s garden areas and is very proud of this.

 

our clients take control of their daily lives, they do their own personal washing, drying, and ironing with or without support. Clean and look after their own bedrooms.

 

Staff will sit down with the clients and go through Rotas, to take part in activities and duties that they choose:

 

On our daily activities clients will cook evening meals from scratch, prepare, fresh and healthy meals with two choices given, and for those, that do not like the option one and option two then we do have a third option available, we also have special menus

 

Breakfast is self-service for all the clients to help ourselves

 

Lunchtime we have all different foods available, the clients also make their own lunches, and what they choose, this is also with or without support with staff

 

 

We have a day service activity coordinator, that comes in 1-2 times a week.

these are only some of the things we have made: 

soaps, perfumes, wind chimes , bird boxes, lip balms, soaps, necklaces for staff, bunting for the back garden, bugs house for all bugs to live in

 

We do lots of arts and crafts

Pottery lessons and making things that the clients Choose.

We have planned theme days & Evenings

Party to celebrate Halloween, and we all get dressed us

BBQ’s in the garden

Afternoon tea, with freshly home cooked cakes or scones

Chilled out days in the garden

We have grown sunflowers from seeds, strawberries, tomatoes, herbs   

 

Some of our clients enjoy taking part in cleaning up after mealtimes - washing the tables, hoovering etc. also some of our clients like to polish and hoover and help in the kitchen after meals with washing and wiping up. We try and get everyone as involved as possible, including helping with the home’s laundry, washing, drying, We also have a client who loves to help with office duties.

                       

Events

We had a yard sales in the past where we raise money for our clients to have big trips to the pantomime or other expensive activities that benefit from additional funds. June 2019 we had a fete and raised £700.00 which will be spent on our clients for summer trips out and about.

We also have coffee mornings and cake baking where money is raised, often for charities, picked by the clients.

We have some nominated days which we enjoy celebrating and being involved in such as - children in need, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Red Nose Day, Remembrance Sunday, Fancy dress, Christmas dress, we are also happy to share in celebrations for other cultures too.

 

walks to the park & picnics, cinema trips bowling,  ride out in the car, or by buss, Beach trips, Theatre trips, yoga groups, keep fit, Reiki sessions

 

Some of our clients have had small group holidays together too!! With our own staff

 

 

We have regular shopping trips for the clients to go out and purchase their own shopping, which can be clothing, toiletries, or other items, all our clients have their own cards, which they can use independent in the shops contactless, again this is very important, as it gives the clients control over their life

 

We have big trips planned to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, places of interest , seaside , walks,  fund-raising events

 

 

Achieving new things

Certificates can be given to any of our clients who have made improvements in a specific area, done well in a skill or job they have been tasked with, this is to show everyone they are valued for what they do, the way they have helped, or just for being a happy positive influence on others!!

                

 

Care – life plans

Staff on a monthly basis (one-to-one) will go through the care plan and risk assessments, discussing any changes, any problems or concerns they have, or new goals or aspirations, this is talked through with our clients, then changed in the care plan, clients and staff member signs to agree to this.

 

Appreciating our staff    Family ©Friendly ©Workers F F W 

Point House values the staff members that work here, they are all hard-working, loyal and kind. many have worked here for years!. We give staff recognition and certificates in to show our appreciation. All our staff are very special to us. All our staff are very good, and very caring.

 

Family’s friends

We also think it’s very important that our clients keep family contact, Families, friends contact us regular, we also contact them, for updates, this is done by email, newsletters, or telephone calls, we also send messages, and use WhatsApp.

                

 

Throughout Covid we maintained contact with family, friends, this was done through FaceTime

 

Social media

We update our website, and all other social media regular, and received good feed back

                    

 

Quality assurance

We ask for feedback from anybody that comes in to Point House, we ask for feedback from family and friends, staff and our clients yearly  – from theses we can learn new ways to improve our ever-changing service.

 

      With Love & Kindness

 

                  

 

                        The meaning of Point House and what the letters stand for

 

 

P  =  People who care                            O  = Overcome obstacles I  =   interest explored N =  Nurtured to develop T =  Time to grow

H =  Happy to help O =  Open up to others U =  United we stand S  =  Safe environment E =   Equal opportunities