Hamilton Court is a supported living service
and provides support for people with learning disabilities and
autism living in the community. Accommodation is a small housing
complex owned by South Yorkshire Housing Association.
The Registered Manager, Service Manager and Head of Service have
acknowledged the need to further increase capacity within Hamilton
Court, building on the existing support offer in place which is
currently provided by Doncaster Councils existing support staff.
The aim being to enable us to facilitate and support the
implementation of the current support schedule for individuals who
are supported at Hamilton Court. This in turn will assist in
maximising a ‘person centred, strengths based
approach’; connecting people to their communities, enabling
people to live independently, focusing more resources to supporting
people at home. The additional weekly capacity will create 151.5
hours additional support. The additional staffing as required
for
the service to remain Well Led through the Care Quality
Commission
(CQC).
An analysis was completed to look at what support schedules for
each individual in houses 1, 2 and 3 at Hamilton Court, and what
permanent positions were already in our budget.
It is understand that the existing support is block purchased from
a commissioned service provided, however this clearly only covers
the basic support and leaves nothing in budget to allow any leave
and training cover.
Annual leave and training therefore do take place, and without this
additional cover individuals’
support hours quite simply are not delivered.
It is appreciated that this is a large budget request, however it
is felt this is essential in order to confidently say we are
delivering what has been assessed for these individuals and what
they are entitled to.
The required support hours for with the combined 12 support
schedules is 734 hours. Permanent contracted hours when fully
staffed is 759 hours, therefore there are surplus hours of only
25.
Annual Leave, averaging per week 139 hours, which is 18.3% of the
current contracted hours - 759.
Training per week averaging 13 hours, which is 1.7% of the current
contracted hours – 759.
A total of 152 hours per week is required in addition to the 734
hours support on schedules.
We already have 25 hours of this, therefore we have a shortfall of
127 hours per week.
To create an additional 127 hours, this would in itself incur
another 25.4 hours leave and training (at 20% of the 127) per week.
Therefore there would be a requirement to increase the contracted
hours by 152.4.
The proposal is therefore to increase the staffing budget, in order
to create the following positions: – 1 X 31.5 hour (nights
grade 6), 4 X 30 hour (days 1 X grade 7 and 3 X grade 6) –
total of 151.5 hours.
There is currently recruitment to four x 20 hour support worker
positions to support the individuals, due to a move into the flats.
This 80 hours was calculated using the same method as above.
Approval for these have already confirmed by Carolyn Nice on a 12
month basis
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 17/11/2022
Decision due: 28 Jul 2022 by Director of Adults, Health and Well-Being
Contact: Claire Heriot, Registered Manager, Hamilton Court Tel. 01302 73403, Email: Claire.Heriot@doncaster.gov.uk Claire.Heriot@doncaster.gov.uk Tel: 01302 734031.