"The quality rating for this service is 2+ this means the people who use this service experience good quality outcomes."
Care Quality Commission

Community Access

What we do

Community access provides one to one support to over 150 individuals to access activities within the community.

The Support we offer

The team can support you to:

Local Activities

We can help you take part in a range of activities of your choice: such as swimming, cinema, theatre, fishing, dancing, bowling, or any activity you may want to do such as attending colleges, day centres or night classes

All support is individually designed with staff selected to meet your needs and interests. The times and days you have support are tailored to accommodate your lifestyle.

As well as utilising public transport we can organise a vehicle to support you to wherever you want to go. Community Access supports individual's with a wide range of abilities from the age of 13 and upwards.

Seeking employment

Community Access also provides a supported employment service to individuals who wish to pursue employment opportunities.

The department will find suitable employment for you, based on what you tell us you want to do. Your employer will teach us how to do all aspects of the job and then we will train you to do the job to the standard expected by the employer.

Training

We will train you for as long or as little as it takes before you and your employer are in agreement that we can withdraw our support. Should any part of your work change, we will come back and train you in the new routine and again support you until you are ready to work unsupported.

We can also train you to travel independently to work should you also want or need this. We support people in employment who work one day a week through to people who want to work full time.

Service Contact

Julie Embleton

Ms Julie Embleton , Supported Housing Manager

Email: julie.embleton@azure-charitable.co.uk

Telephone: 01670 736787

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

NVQ 2 and 3 in Care
Certificate in Caring services
D33 and D34 award in Care
NVQ 4 in Care
Registered NVQ Assessor, Internal Verifier and Registered Manager.

EXPERIENCE

16+ years experience within Azure working with adults with learning disabilities
5 years experience as a Team Leader.
Supported Housing Manager at Keele Drive since July 2004.