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SureCare Enabling (Bath & Mendip) has been set up by Shelley Saxon.

Shelley Saxon

Director & Registered Manager BA Hons. LLM. PhD (on going)

Shelley has a life long commitment to enabling people of all abilities to live lives of their own choosing.  She has over 6 years directorial and management experience providing person-centred flexible enabling services to people with a visual impairment or dual sensory loss, learning difficulties and other impairments.  This is backed by 20 years experience as a practicing professional accountant and qualified mediator.

Shelley is an experienced academic and field researcher in Disability and Social Care Studies. As well as NOS Leadership & Management for Care Services (on going), Shelley is doing doctoral research into the embedded lived experience of older people living in rural communities who have an acquired visual impairment .

Her publications based on this research include:

‘Voices from the Shadows’ (2009), a book based on her doctoral research, telling the life stories of a group of older people with an acquired visual impairment living in a rural community in their own words.

 ‘Added Rural Value: Quality of Life Issues for Older People Living in Rural Devon’ (2006), a report based on a piece of field research commissioned by Age Concern Devon and funded by the Home Office through Change Up.
 

Our Enablers 

We believe enablement and empowerment begin with the organisation and its staff.  We recognise that for most people the most important people in our organisation are the enablers with whom they will have regular contact. 

SureCare Enabling (Bath & Mendip) take great care in recruiting, training and supervising our enablers and staff.  They have a wide range of nationally recognized qualifications and experience relevant to people’s needs and that meet the National Minimum Standards for Social Care.

In addition to the LDQ induction and all mandatory training, all staff receive  training in the following:

a. Disability awareness
b. Person-centred planning
c. Vision awareness and sighted guide
d. Epilepsy awareness
e. Diabetes awareness
f.  Introduction to mental illness
g. Introduction to dementia
h. Dealing with death, dying and bereavement
i. Multiple Sclerosis awareness
j. Understanding challenging behaviour

Enablers also have the opportunity to work towards the LDQs and/or NVQs in care.
 

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