Support Services

Residential Care Services

CBCT has residential houses that offer level three support for people over the age of 18. This means that staff are available to the houses 24 hours over seven days. These houses are located in the South Dunedin and Tainui areas.

The type of support offered is defined in part by the individual's goals and staff consists of home support and clinical support. Home support staff can help with a range of domestic and self management skills such as cooking, budgeting, cleaning, gardening, shopping and planning social activities. They will also help run house meetings so residents can manage the house to suit their needs.

Clinical Staff may be Social Workers or occupational Therapists. They can help with a variety of assessed needs to help people manage their lives more independently.

The Residential Team is made up of Occupational Therapists (Case Managers) and Residential Support Workers.

Case Managers are responsible for:

• Ensuring that service users have achievable individual goal plans
• Ensuring certain tasks within the house are achieved in line with agency policy and procedures
• Supporting service users and staff who work in that house
• Having an overview of what is happening in the residential care facility

Residential Support Workers are responsible for:

• Supporting service users with everyday living within the residential care facility and wider community. This may include having a role in supporting service users to achieve goals such as cooking, shopping, gardening, problem solving and group work
• Liaising with the wider community

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Community Support

CBCT provides Adult Community Support to people in the community with disabilities relating to mental illness, intellectual disabilities or head injuries. This service is for people over 18 years of age and is traditionally offered to people living in their own homes. The hours staff are available is determined by the need but are usually around 2-5 hours a week.

A community support worker can work with anyone else involved in the person's recovery. Community Support workers help in a wide range of areas such as assisting someone to find and set up a flat, exploring and participating in community activities, helping people to further their education or providing regular social contact with an individual.

The Community Support Team of Workers are responsible for:

• A mobile service offering support to people in their own homes or flats
• Working alongside other identified key service support people such as Psychiatric District Nurses (PDNs) and Occupational Therapists
• Liaising with key support people, mental health workers and community groups
• Plan development, implementation and review of progress towards individual goals

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