Welcome to The Meadows Instow

Our Mission

Our mission is to be a sustainable service that works pro-actively with local commissioners to reflect the latest strategic intentions. The business is dynamic and forward thinking enabling the development of a high quality, person-centred setting that recognises and builds on individuality, whilst working closely with local teams to deliver care for the person.

To achieve this, The Meadows is dedicated to helping people to improve their health and wellbeing, and recognises the individuals’ right to lead as independent and socially inclusive a life as is possible for them.

We understand that for people to achieve their optimum quality of life, person-centred care programmes are needed; these are

• Led by the service user themselves
• Designed in partnership with key stakeholders
• Delivered in a positive risk culture of ‘doing with’ not ‘doing for’

Our approach reflects core values of individual choice, dignity, honesty, integrity, transparency, and respect; all of which are led by Management and intrinsic to both the people who use our services and our staff teams.

Our Aim

Our primary aim is to improve the quality of a person’s life and that of the people around them, by recognising that behaviour patterns are an outcome and do not define the person who is exhibiting them; We look for reasons for the presentation of a behaviour rather than attempting to force change without addressing and changing or managing the cause.

We do this by improving training and practice, to promote a positive culture that will:

• protect people’s fundamental human rights and improve their quality of life
• reduce reliance on restrictive practices focusing on prevention, de-escalation and reflective practice
• increase understanding of the root causes of behaviour and recognition that many behaviours are the result of distress due to unmet needs.

Our Involvement with CPI and RRN

At The Meadows we have taken the decision to use the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), who are part of the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN), to deliver our workforce development and training in crisis management and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). This assists us to embrace PBS as a person-centred approach to support people who display, or are at risk of displaying, behaviours of concern.

All employees have completed training, at a level commensurate with their job role that is closely matched to the individual needs of the people who use our services. With all training taking into account the ethos of RRN, we ensure a joined-up approach to any intervention training that we require, and this complements our overall PBS approach and minimises our requirements for its use.