Alverthorpe has specialist residential and self-contained apartments.
The residential service provides two communal lounges and kitchen diner with access to a large garden area. There are ground floor bedrooms available and a shared bathroom in addition to the ensuite shower rooms. Alverthorpe has Wi-Fi throughout.
Alverthorpe also offers three self-contained apartments enabling the people we support to progress through their care pathway and further develop their independent living skills. The apartments are situated on the same site as our Alverthorpe and Flanshaw services but have their own separate entrance.
Activities are person centred by the needs of each person we support and what they like to do, we have local leisure centres, cinemas, theatres, activity centre’s, local beauty salons, aromatherapy, nail Bars, hair days, and getting out to the gym, swimming, with access to a private swimming pool. We enjoy going out to bowling, trips out for meals, bingo with local singers, trips to the Ponderosa, local disability music sessions and beautiful local parks for walks.
Holidays are arranged with Alverthorpe House and we have access to cafes and shops in a short walking distance and local pubs. The people we support love to celebrate community events and there are lots of local places to visit and fun events to go to.
We are a very sociable home and love to celebrate and have parties. We like to celebrate and embrace all ethnicities, festivals of all nationalities and inclusion of LGBTQ we attend outside festivals and hold parties in the garden of the home where we invite other homes, friends, families external professionals to come along and join us this can involve lots of stalls, food tasting and activities.
We encourage the people we support as to be as independent as possible and live a fulfilling life.
Alverthorpe has local transport links to Leeds, Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham through train and bus routes. The home has a Company Car which is available for longer planned day trips, and to support People we support to attend appointments, to visit family members.