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New Horizonsenabling people to live the life they choose

Enabling people to live the life they choose

Promoting diversity and equality of opportunities

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New Horizons is a local, independent micro service provider with a small team of well-trained individuals that are dedicated to offering a person centred approach to social care.

It has been established to support the development and delivery of sustainable local services for people with special needs and their families.

We aim to enable people to participate in their communities, and provide each individual accessing our services the opportunity to have their own unique experience in life.

We aim to ensure that people have a real choice of services offering unique solutions to each individual’s requirements.

We aim to provide tailor-made services that people can buy into to improve their quality of life.

We aim to become an established local provider of social care services and promote the Island of Jersey as a unique tourist destination through the supported holiday service.

Mission statement

New Horizons is committed to providing individualised support services for people with physical, developmental or social impairments, enabling them to live independent and productive lives.

Core Values Provide a flexible, person centred service, shaped around the requirements of the individuals accessing the services:

• Be an active participant in the local community

• Enable people to live the life they choose

• Promote independence and choice

• Promote diversity and equality of opportunity

• Value peoples gifts and aspirations whilst recognising and meeting their needs

• Provide a consistent and sustainable service

• Provide a continually improving service

• Comply with all relevant legislation, regulation and best practice guidance

Our Services

• Activity Weeks

• Activity Sessions

• Supported group holidays to Jersey (max ratio of 1:3 staffing)

• Supported family holidays & tailor-made packages to Jersey

• Supported off island group holidays, tailor-made packages and family holidays

• Life skills training in the home and community

• Short break respite in the home

• Sitting Service

• Community Support

• Supported Living

• Escorted Travel Support

• Crisis & Transitions in Life Support

All Activities are risk assessed, insured and provided by a qualified, experienced staff team.

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Why use our services?

• A person centred service

• Offering a unique range of services

• Only provider on the web offering holidays to Jersey

• Affiliations to Local & National bodies

• Local knowledge of island and the events it holds

• Fully insured

• Qualified & Experienced Staff

• Competitive rates

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For updates on our activities & services please see our website or like our Facebook page:

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For further information on our services, please contact us:

+44 (0)1534 888826

info@newshorizonssupportservices.co.uk

About Us

Hello, my name is Anthony.

I set up New Horizons Support Services after regular discussions with individuals and their carers. Reading recent reports by the States of Jersey and the changing needs of our local community, showed the need for a service provider who could provide a person centred approach to social care in Jersey.

I also believe we have a uniquely beautiful island with a stunning natural environment, and we have events and attractions that many people would not have the opportunity to experience without the support provided in our holiday packages.

I have worked for 8 years in the Health and Social Care sector in a variety of settings, including Residential Care, Day Services and the Voluntary Third Sector. This has provided me with first-hand experience of the issues service users and their parents/carers face. In this time I have developed networks with various Community Services and local service providers.

In these roles I have worked with a wide range of people with Special Needs, from those with

profound physical needs, to people who require highly structured programmes and higher ratios of staffing. I have worked on complex transitions from the school environment into Adult Services. I am experienced in creating Life Skills programmes and also staff training programmes for projects supporting individuals with Autistic spectrum conditions.

I have developed daily activity programmes and communication tools, have experience writing Care Plans, Risk Assessments and Person Centred Plans. I also have experience in organising and running Activity Days and Service User holidays.

My role in Residential Care involved assisting people with tasks that need to be met on a daily basis such as food hygiene and shopping. It also involved helping the residents to develop themselves as individuals and create targets they wished to achieve.

Until recently, I was the longest serving volunteer in the befriending scheme for Autism Jersey. I also spent a short time as a trustee for the charity helping to oversee the Adult Social Club. Before leaving the finance sector, I would volunteer with the Jersey Youth Service in their then fledgling inclusion project, which involved working at a youth club set up for teenagers with Asperger’s.