Sorento Care is an innovative, quality-accredited non-profit organisation that provides specialised care, supported accommodation and rehabilitation to people with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities in New South Wales and South Australia.
A LITTLE ABOUT SORENTO CARE
Our group homes provide care and accommodation to clients with a wide variety of individual needs. We have tailored programs to individual needs, with both activities, study and work programs which is stimulating and fulfilling for our clients.
We are providing living skills training and a transition assistance program to enable clients to move successfully back to the community. Our living skills program has been assessed as highly successful and we constantly receive requests to provide this program to clients. We support a number of clients with needs resulting from the consequences of an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) We have had amazing documented successes with clients who have regained many skills through the individualised rehabilitation programs we have developed in consultation with allied health experts.
OUR CLIENTS
Many of our residents come to us frightened and lonely and over the time they spend with us develop lasting friendships and the confidence in themselves and their skills to return to the community to follow their interests, in theatre, sports, crafts and work.
Clients have reignited their passion and enjoyment in cooking, sports and the arts at Sorento Care.
We have set up a chess club and made our own chess set all visitors are offered a challenge but few many to win, we are home to some champion chess payers!!
Recent Resident’s comments:
"our maintenance man looks like Johnny Depp –Hubba Bubba!"
"I love the cooking here"
"Our site manager is a wonderful lady!"
"I love the international days"
" I love the manager she’s like a mother to me"
"the food is always great here"
" thanks for being pet friendly I am so pleased I could bring my cat with me"
" I have made so many friends here"
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES
Getting back to the community:
"Ted was frightened and so cut off from the world and his family because he didn’t know how to use a phone. With help from our staff Ted was able to purchase a prepaid mobile phone of his choice and everyday staff would sit with Ted and show him features on the phone that would prove handy.
Ted feels secure and so confident now, he phones and texts his family weekly gets the latest news on his phone and loads up his favourite songs to listen to. Ted’s confidence has grown so much that he now feels little anxiety when trying something new because he knows he can do it - just like learning to use the phone!"
"Cathy is a beautiful young woman who has been wheel chair bound since a near fatal road accident when she was very young . Cathy has always lived at home but she and her family wanted her to be more independent . Cathy now lives in a serviced apartment with us where individual care, rehabilitation, return to community and a large variety of lifestyle programs are offered. Since moving to us Cathy has joined many of our programs and has developed greater independence, is able to eat by herself , increased her vocabulary and is now able to walk with assistance. Cathy has become more settled, happy and fun loving-enjoying the company of others and continues to participate in a wide variety of lifestyle programs and community activities."
OUR STAFF
Our capacity to continually deliver high quality services to our clients is based on employing and maintaining a workforce who are empowered and driven by a desire to provide excellence in care, health and leisure management. To this end we ensure that:
All staff hold as a minimum, Certificate lll in Disability Care, current police checks, and attend annual fire training, mandatory reporting, manual handling training, infection control, providing care to children and food handling courses.
We provide in house training by external providers in specialised areas such as regular mental health.
Specialised staff have trained in Mental Health rehabilitation, Design of Health and Leisure Programs and Community Liaison Programs. Our staff include Registered and Enrolled Nurses, Occupational and Speech Therapists. We encourage clients to reduce or quit smoking and have several Quit Smoking Councillors on our workforce to work with clients.
We partner with medical practices, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists services along with Repatriation Hospitals to assist us to provide high quality care to our clients.
- Category:
- Non-profit organization